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Wiktionary

  1. scalesnoun

    A device for weighing goods for sale.

    The butcher put the sausages on the scales.

Editors Contribution

  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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Entomology

  1. Scales

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

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  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.

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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. Martin Smith:

    Their compatriots included such beasts as Wiwaxia, a slug covered in leaf-like scales and towering spines; Anomalocaris, resembling a cross between a lobster and a can-opener; Nectocaris, a boggle-eyed two-armed squid, and Opabinia, which looks like a shrimp that swallowed a vacuum cleaner.

  2. Vladan Kuzmanović:

    Sabism is an art and theatric movement of 21st century occupied with the philotipes, mythologic forms, schematism and chromatic scales, dual art, logism of color, cult art, conglomeration. As an art movement it tries to explore word act, group performance, collective structure, fruitfulness and aesthetics of multitude through philotipes as implicit connotation of colors or schemes in their general use (honeysuckle yellow, female, courtly, savage, dionysiaque).

  3. Janine Barchas:

    I'm willing to entertain a number of ifs before that tips the scales for me, but this [ arsenic theory ] is reckless.

  4. Oona Hanson:

    One thing troop leaders can do is talk about the joy around food by sharing their favorite combinations of cookies, this tips the scales in the direction of creating a balanced relationship with food.

  5. Lucy Skinner:

    It was possible to see abrasion along the edges of the leather scales, meaning that the armor had seen considerable use. That suggests that Tutankhamun had worn it, and that perhaps he had even seen battle.

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