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Examples:scales fall from the eyes—the melting point of silver 962°C used as a calibration point in some temperature scales—remove the scales from one's eyes—scales (measure body weight)—cuts and bruises like fish scales—person who scales the outer walls of a building as a stunt or for building maintenance—scales on the belly of a snake, aiding locomotion—range (of scales or measuring equipment)—a large-scale collective effort find details about a person or event (Internet slang)—lit. one scale and half a claw (idiom); only odd bits and pieces—Hundred Regiments offensive of August-December 1940, a large scale offensive against the Japanese by the communists—Lai Changxing (1958-), notorious Xiamen mafia boss involved in large scale corruption and smuggling, extradited from Canada back China in 2008—five notes of pentatonic scale, roughly do, re, mi, sol, la—lit. a dragon's scale from the east and a dragon's claw from the west—lit. punish a little to prevent a lot (idiom); to criticize former mistakes firmly to prevent large scale repetition—high point on scale, high grade, temperature, latitude etc—grade 8 worker (highest on the eight grade wage scale)—Beno Gutenberg (1889-1960), German-born US seismologist, coinventor of the Richter magnitude scale—thermodynamic temperature scale (in degrees Kelvin, measured above absolute zero)—sonata form (one of the large-scale structures used in Western classical music)—names of the five notes of the Chinese pentatonic scale, corresponding roughly do, re, mi, sol, la—Jiansanjiang, large-scale agricultural development in Sanjiang river plain in Heilongjiang—scale of fee payment for a painter, calligrapher or writer—Heshen (1746-1799), Manchu official of the Qing Dynasty who openly practiced various forms of corruption on a grand scale—Charles Francis Richter (1900-1985), US physicist and seismologist, after whom the Richter scale is named—three days without a beating, and a child will scale the roof rip the tiles [idiom.]— |