English words for 'Alternative form of shield fern.'
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- (botany) An aerial rootlet for support in climbing, as of ivy.
- (heraldry) A heraldic figure in the form of a bar bent at the ends into the form of a hook.
- An attachment to a shoe or boot that provides traction by means of spikes for climbing or walking on slippery surfaces, especially ice.
- a hinged pair of curved iron bars; used to raise heavy objects
- an iron spike attached to the shoe to prevent slipping on ice when walking or climbing
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- a specialized leaf or bract that protects a bud or catkin
- a metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners)
- an indicator having a graduated sequence of marks
- an ordered reference standard
- a measuring instrument for weighing; shows amount of mass
- relative magnitude
- a thin flake of dead epidermis shed from the surface of the skin
- the ratio between the size of something and a representation of it
- a flattened rigid plate forming part of the body covering of many animals
- (music) a series of notes differing in pitch according to a specific scheme (usually within an octave)
- An ordered, usually numerical sequence used for measurement; means of assigning a magnitude.
- (uncountable) Limescale.
- Size; scope.
- (uncountable) The flaky material sloughed off heated metal.
- A device to measure mass or weight.
- (uncountable, US) An infestation of scale insects on a plant; commonly thought of as, or mistaken for, a disease.
- 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.
- (music) A series of notes spanning an octave, tritave, or pseudo-octave, used to make melodies.
- Either of the pans, trays, or dishes of a balance or scales.
- Scale mail (as opposed to chain mail).
- A flake of skin of an animal afflicted with dermatitis.
- A mathematical base for a numeral system; radix.
- 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.
- A small piece of pigmented chitin, many of which coat the wings of a butterfly or moth to give them their color.
- The thin metallic side plate of the handle of a pocketknife.
- A scale insect.
- A line or bar associated with a drawing, used to indicate measurement when the image has been magnified or reduced.
- The ratio of depicted distance to actual distance.
- 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.
- Gradation; succession of ascending and descending steps and degrees; progressive series; scheme of comparative rank or order.
verb
- measure by or as if by a scale
- climb up by means of a ladder
- take by attacking with scaling ladders
- reach the highest point of
- remove the scales from
- measure with or as if with scales
- pattern, make, regulate, set, measure, or estimate according to some rate or standard
- size or measure according to a scale
- (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.
- (transitive) To take off in thin layers or scales, as tartar from the teeth; to pare off, as a surface.
- (transitive) To weigh, measure or grade according to a scale or system.
- (intransitive) To separate and come off in thin layers or laminae.
- (transitive) To remove the scales of.
- (intransitive) To become scaly; to produce or develop scales.
- (UK, Scotland, dialect) To scatter; to spread.
- (transitive) To clean, as the inside of a cannon, by the explosion of a small quantity of powder.
- (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.
- (intransitive, computing) To tolerate significant increases in throughput or other potentially limiting factors.
- (transitive) To strip or clear of scale; to descale.
noun
- Any plant used to form a hedge.
- The act of one who hedges (in various senses).
- (pragmatics, composition) The use of intentionally ambiguous or noncommittal statements.
- (finance) the practice of taking a position in one market to offset and balance against the risk adopted by assuming a position in a contrary or opposing market or investment
- any technique designed to reduce or eliminate financial risk; for example, taking two positions that will offset each other if prices change
- an intentionally noncommittal or ambiguous statement
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- A stem of such plants, especially when thick and rope-like; a liana.
- Any plant whose stem requires support and which climbs by tendrils or twining.
- Any plant the stem of which creeps along the ground.
- (especially UK) A climbing plant that produces grapes.
- Any plant of the genus Vitis.
- a plant with a weak stem that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface
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adj
verb
noun
- (botany) An aerial rootlet for support in climbing, as of ivy.
- (heraldry) A heraldic figure in the form of a bar bent at the ends into the form of a hook.
- An attachment to a shoe or boot that provides traction by means of spikes for climbing or walking on slippery surfaces, especially ice.
- a hinged pair of curved iron bars; used to raise heavy objects
- an iron spike attached to the shoe to prevent slipping on ice when walking or climbing
verb
noun
- a specialized leaf or bract that protects a bud or catkin
- a metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners)
- an indicator having a graduated sequence of marks
- an ordered reference standard
- a measuring instrument for weighing; shows amount of mass
- relative magnitude
- a thin flake of dead epidermis shed from the surface of the skin
- the ratio between the size of something and a representation of it
- a flattened rigid plate forming part of the body covering of many animals
- (music) a series of notes differing in pitch according to a specific scheme (usually within an octave)
- An ordered, usually numerical sequence used for measurement; means of assigning a magnitude.
- (uncountable) Limescale.
- Size; scope.
- (uncountable) The flaky material sloughed off heated metal.
- A device to measure mass or weight.
- (uncountable, US) An infestation of scale insects on a plant; commonly thought of as, or mistaken for, a disease.
- 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.
- (music) A series of notes spanning an octave, tritave, or pseudo-octave, used to make melodies.
- Either of the pans, trays, or dishes of a balance or scales.
- Scale mail (as opposed to chain mail).
- A flake of skin of an animal afflicted with dermatitis.
- A mathematical base for a numeral system; radix.
- 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.
- A small piece of pigmented chitin, many of which coat the wings of a butterfly or moth to give them their color.
- The thin metallic side plate of the handle of a pocketknife.
- A scale insect.
- A line or bar associated with a drawing, used to indicate measurement when the image has been magnified or reduced.
- The ratio of depicted distance to actual distance.
- 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.
- Gradation; succession of ascending and descending steps and degrees; progressive series; scheme of comparative rank or order.
verb
- measure by or as if by a scale
- climb up by means of a ladder
- take by attacking with scaling ladders
- reach the highest point of
- remove the scales from
- measure with or as if with scales
- pattern, make, regulate, set, measure, or estimate according to some rate or standard
- size or measure according to a scale
- (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.
- (transitive) To take off in thin layers or scales, as tartar from the teeth; to pare off, as a surface.
- (transitive) To weigh, measure or grade according to a scale or system.
- (intransitive) To separate and come off in thin layers or laminae.
- (transitive) To remove the scales of.
- (intransitive) To become scaly; to produce or develop scales.
- (UK, Scotland, dialect) To scatter; to spread.
- (transitive) To clean, as the inside of a cannon, by the explosion of a small quantity of powder.
- (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.
- (intransitive, computing) To tolerate significant increases in throughput or other potentially limiting factors.
- (transitive) To strip or clear of scale; to descale.
noun
- Any plant used to form a hedge.
- The act of one who hedges (in various senses).
- (pragmatics, composition) The use of intentionally ambiguous or noncommittal statements.
- (finance) the practice of taking a position in one market to offset and balance against the risk adopted by assuming a position in a contrary or opposing market or investment
- any technique designed to reduce or eliminate financial risk; for example, taking two positions that will offset each other if prices change
- an intentionally noncommittal or ambiguous statement
verb
noun
- A stem of such plants, especially when thick and rope-like; a liana.
- Any plant whose stem requires support and which climbs by tendrils or twining.
- Any plant the stem of which creeps along the ground.
- (especially UK) A climbing plant that produces grapes.
- Any plant of the genus Vitis.
- a plant with a weak stem that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface
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