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scales

nounnounverbcommon in dialogue

  • //skeɪlz//

A device for measuring weight.

noun

  1. 1

    Also a form of scaleplural of scale

noun

  1. 1

    A device for measuring weight.

    The butcher put the sausages on the scales.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of scalethird-person singular simple present indicative of scale

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Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).