Le mot anglais pour échelle est
ladder

Définition en anglais

Traductions de échelle et leurs définitions

ladder
1. n. Échelle.
2. v. Escalader un bâtiment à l'échelle.

ladder
1. n. A frame, usually portable, of wood, metal, or rope, used for ascent and descent, consisting of two side pieces to which are fastened rungs (cross strips or rounds acting as steps).
2. n. (figuratively) A series of stages by which one progresses to a better position.
3. n. (figuratively) The hierarchy or ranking system within an organization, such as the corporate ladder.
4. n. (chiefly Britain) A length of unravelled fabric in a knitted garment, especially in nylon stockings; a run.
5. n. In the game of go, a sequence of moves following a zigzag pattern and ultimately leading to the capture of the attacked stones.
6. v. To arrange or form into a shape of a ladder.
7. v. (chiefly firefighting) To ascend (a building, a wall, etc.) using a ladder.
8. v. Of a knitted garment: to develop a ladder as a result of a broken thread.
Oh damn it, I've laddered my tights!

scale	©
1. n. Balance.
According to the scale, he weighed 70 kilograms.
Selon la balance, il pesait 70 kilogrammes.
2. n. Échelle.
The map is on a scale of 100,000 to 1.
La carte est à l'échelle 100 000 pour 1.
3. n. Grandeur.
The pyramids were built on a larger scale than any previous man-made buildings.
Les pyramides furent construites à une dimension supérieure à celle de n'importe quel bâtiment fait par l'Homme auparavant.
4. n. Écaille.
He had to first remove the fish scales.
Il devait d'abord enlever les écailles du poisson.
Part of his skin was covered in scale.
Une partie de sa peau était couverte d'écailles.
5. n. Gamme.
She warmed up before practice by singing (musical) scales.
Elle s'échauffa avant la répétition en chantant des gammes.
6. v. Écailler.
Who is going to scale these fish?
Qui va écailler ces poissons ?
7. v. Escalader.
He scaled the wall and kept running.
Il escalada le mur et continua à courir.
8. v. Agrandir, élargir (scale up).
This is okay so far, but we're going to need to scale up.
Tout va bien pour le moment, mais nous allons devoir agrandir.
9. v. Réduire (scale down).
This would overwhelm them. We need to scale it down.
Cela les submergerait. Nous devons le réduire.
10. v. (Géométrie) Échelonner, rééchelonner, redimensionner.
11. v. (Intransitif) Varier selon une certaine échelle.
The tax scales according to your revenue.
Le montant de l'impôt varie selon le revenu.

scale	©
1. n. (obsolete) A ladder; a series of steps; a means of ascending.
2. n. An ordered, usually numerical sequence used for measurement, means of assigning a magnitude.
Please rate your experience on a scale from 1 to 10.
The magnitude of an earthquake is measured on the open-ended Richter scale.
3. n. Size; scope.
The Holocaust was insanity on an enormous scale.
There are some who question the scale of our ambitions.
4. n. The ratio of depicted distance to actual distance.
This map uses a scale of 1:10.
5. n. A line or bar associated with a drawing, used to indicate measurement when the image has been magnified or reduced
6. n. (music) A series of notes spanning an octave, tritave, or pseudo-octave, used to make melodies.
7. n. A mathematical base for a numeral system; radix.
the decimal scale; the binary scale
8. n. Gradation; succession of ascending and descending steps and degrees; progressive series; scheme of comparative rank or order.
9. n. A standard amount of money to be received by a performer or writer, negotiated by a union.
Sally wasn't the star of the show, so she was glad to be paid scale.
10. v. 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.
We should scale that up by a factor of 10.
11. v. To climb to the top of.
Hilary and Norgay were the first known to have scaled Everest.
12. v. (intransitive, computing) To tolerate significant increases in throughput or other potentially limiting factors.
That architecture won't scale to real-world environments.
13. v. To weigh, measure or grade according to a scale or system.
14. n. 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.
15. n. A small piece of pigmented chitin, many of which coat the wings of a butterfly or moth to give them their color.
16. n. A flake of skin of an animal afflicted with dermatitis.
17. n. Part of an overlapping arrangement of many small, flat and hard protective layers forming a pinecone that flare when mature to release pine nut seeds.
18. n. The flaky material sloughed off heated metal.
19. n. Scale mail (as opposed to chain mail).
20. n. Limescale.
21. n. A scale insect.
22. n. The thin metallic side plate of the handle of a pocketknife.
23. v. To remove the scales of.
Please scale that fish for dinner.
24. v. (intransitive) To become scaly; to produce or develop scales.
The dry weather is making my skin scale.
25. v. To strip or clear of scale; to descale.
to scale the inside of a boiler
26. v. To take off in thin layers or scales, as tartar from the teeth; to pare off, as a surface.
27. v. (intransitive) To separate and come off in thin layers or laminae.
Some sandstone scales by exposure.
28. v. (Scotland) To scatter; to spread.
29. v. To clean, as the inside of a cannon, by the explosion of a small quantity of powder.
30. n. A device to measure mass or weight.
After the long, lazy winter I was afraid to get on the scale.
31. n. Either of the pans, trays, or dishes of a balance or scales.

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