Definitions for scales
scales

WiktionaryRate this definition:3.0 / 1 vote

1. scalesnoun

   A device for weighing goods for sale.

   The butcher put the sausages on the scales.

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1. scalesnoun

   Plural noun of the word scale.

   The weighing scales are pink and she uses them once a week to check her body weight. The fish has scales all over its body.

   
   

   Submitted by MaryC on March 27, 2016  

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1. scales

   Song lyrics by scales -- Explore a large variety of song lyrics performed by scales on the Lyrics.com website.

EntomologyRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Scales

   broad flattened hairs, forming the wing vestiture of Lepidoptera, and present in various other insects.

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1. SCALES

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Scales is ranked #2732 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Scales surname appeared 13,190 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 4 would have the surname Scales.
   
   55.4% or 7,314 total occurrences were Black.
   38% or 5,024 total occurrences were White.
   3.5% or 472 total occurrences were of two or more races.
   2.1% or 282 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   0.4% or 54 total occurrences were Asian.
   0.3% or 44 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.

How to pronounce scales?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say scales in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of scales in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of scales in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of scales in a Sentence

1. Panoyotis Mavromatis:

   Major scales and chords have traditionally been associated with happy feelings in recent western music, and likewise minor scales and chords have been ascribed a sad or dark affect.

2. Gavin Naylor:

   When people are paddling on their board, the soles of their feet catch the light and very quickly, in exactly the same way the scales on a mullet or a menhaden might catch the light, and when you’re a predator, you don’t tarry. You have to be quick and make a quick decision.

3. Larry Summers:

   We are printing money, we are creating government bonds, we are borrowing on unprecedented scales, those are things that surely create more of a risk of a sharp dollar decline than we had before. And sharp dollar declines are much more likely to translate themselves into inflation than they were historically.

4. Sandeep Aggarwal:

   Time for Original Thinking, Long Term Approach, Innovation, Building Great Products, Large Scales & Solving Challenging Problems. Enough of Myopic/Weak Start-Ups in India.

5. Liberal Justice Elena Kagan:

   What it seems to me you're asking us to do is to put a kind of 10-ton weight on the scales between the president and Congress, and essentially to make it impossible for Congress to perform oversight and to carry out its functions.

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References

1. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Scales
2. ^ Entomology
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/22748/22748-h/22748-h.htm#:~:text=scales
3. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html