Scope
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To perform a cursory investigation, as to scope out. To perform arthroscopic surgery.
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A short version of periscope, or telescope or oscilloscope The breadth, depth or reach of a subject; a domain. a device used in aiming a projectile, through which the person aiming looks at the intended target The region of program source in which an identifier is meaningful.
Scale
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To change the size of something whilst maintaining proportion; especially to change a process in order to produce much larger amounts of the final product.To climb.(computing) To tolerate significant increases in throughput or other potentially limiting factors.To remove the scales of.To become scaly; to produce or develop scales.
Part of speech: noun
Definition: An ordered numerical sequence used for measurement.Size; scope.The ratio of depicted distance to actual distance.A line or bar associated with a drawing, used to indicate measurement when the image has been magnified or reducedA means of assigning a magnitude.A series of notes spanning an octave, tritave, or pseudo-octave, used to make melodies.Part of an overlapping arrangement of many small, flat and hard pieces of keratin covering the skin of an animal, particularly a fish or reptile.A small piece of pigmented chitin, many of which coat the wings of a butterfly or moth to give them their color.A flake of skin of an animal afflicted with dermatitis.A pine nut of a pinecone.The flaky material sloughed off heated metal.Scale mail (as opposed to chain mail).LimescaleA device to measure mass or weight.Either of the pans, trays, or dishes of a balance.