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Scaling   /skˈeɪlɪŋ/   Listen
Scaling

noun
1.
The act of arranging in a graduated series.  Synonym: grading.
2.
Act of measuring or arranging or adjusting according to a scale.
3.
Ascent by or as if by a ladder.


Scale

verb
(past & past part. scaled; pres. part. scaling)
1.
Measure by or as if by a scale.
2.
Pattern, make, regulate, set, measure, or estimate according to some rate or standard.
3.
Take by attacking with scaling ladders.
4.
Reach the highest point of.  Synonym: surmount.
5.
Climb up by means of a ladder.
6.
Remove the scales from.  Synonym: descale.
7.
Measure with or as if with scales.
8.
Size or measure according to a scale.



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"Scaling" Quotes from Famous Books



... was to determine to which side we should turn for a new route; to right, as to left, arose impenetrable masses of trees and bushes. In truth even the scaling of cliffs would have been more easy. Perhaps if we could get above this wooded slope we could advance with surer foot. Now, we could only go ahead blindly, and trust to the instincts of our two ...
— The Master of the World • Jules Verne
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... charge, and also by the Trojan soldiers, who shot arrows and darts down upon them from the roofs above, supposing, from the armor and the plumes which they wore, that they were enemies. They saw the royal palace besieged, and the tortoise formed for scaling the walls of it. The tumult and din, and the frightful glare of lurid flames by which the city was illuminated, a scene of ...
— Romulus, Makers of History • Jacob Abbott
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... branches of the trees, which all around clothed the shelving sides of the ravine and completely embowered the channel of the stream: to a place more strange and replete with gloom and horror no benighted traveller ever found his way. After a short pause we commenced scaling the opposite bank, which we did not find so steep as the other, and a few minutes' exertion brought ...
— The Bible in Spain • George Borrow
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... back. Then they saw—oh, Heavens! who was that? Was not that her red hood—and that figure who thus slowly emerged from behind the edge of the precipice which had so long concealed her—that figure! Was it possible? Not dead—not mangled, but living, moving, and, yes—wonder of wonders—scaling a precipice! Could it be! Oh joy! Oh bliss! Oh revulsion from despair! The ladies trembled and shivered, and laughed and sobbed convulsively, and wept in ...
— The American Baron • James De Mille
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... when they turned to fly, were driven onward by the spear-points of the savages, to be slain in heaps like game in a pitfall. Still, some of them lived, and running under the shelter of the wall, began to breach it with the rude battering rams, and to raise the scaling ladders till death found them, or they were worn out with excitement, ...
— Elissa • H. Rider Haggard
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