TubeTalk Pronunciation

How to pronounce “scale”

Hear “scale” in real YouTube speech, then study definitions and example sentence snippets.

Pronunciation guide for scale

Learning goal: Practice the English pronunciation of scale with real speech in context.
Available examples: 8 YouTube examples
Real speech example: Tech Humanism: The Meaningful FutureIt also has the capacity to scale,
Definition summary: (obsolete) A ladder; a series of steps; a means of ascending.

Example 1 of 8

Tech Humanism: The Meaningful Future

It also has the capacity to scale,

[Noun]
(obsolete) A ladder; a series of steps; a means of ascending.
An ordered, usually numerical sequence used for measurement; means of assigning a magnitude.
Size; scope.
The ratio of depicted distance to actual distance.
A line or bar associated with a drawing, used to indicate measurement when the image has been magnified or reduced.
(music) A series of notes spanning an octave, tritave, or pseudo-octave, used to make melodies.
A mathematical base for a numeral system; radix.
Gradation; succession of ascending and descending steps and degrees; progressive series; scheme of comparative rank or order.
A standard amount of money to be paid for a service, for example union-negotiated amounts received by a performer or writer; similar to wage scale or pay grade.
[Verb]
(transitive) 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.
(transitive) To climb to the top of.
(intransitive, computing) To tolerate significant increases in throughput or other potentially limiting factors.
(transitive) To weigh, measure or grade according to a scale or system.
(manufacturing, transitive) To take measurements from (an engineering drawing), treating them as (or as if) reliable dimensional instructions. This practice often works but can produce latently incorrect results and is thus usually deprecated.