scaling
skay ling
- n the act of arranging in a graduated series
- n act of measuring or arranging or adjusting according to a scale
- n ascent by or as if by a ladder
- v measure by or as if by a scale
- v pattern, make, regulate, set, measure, or estimate according to some rate or standard
- v take by attacking with scaling ladders
- v reach the highest point of
- v climb up by means of a ladder
- v remove the scales from
- v measure with or as if with scales
- v size or measure according to a scale
- Even before the latest controversy, Florida was in the process of scaling back its boot camps.
- Abdullah has slashed government budgets, barring new military spending and scaling back white elephants like the Strategic Storage Program, an estimated $25 billion project .
- It's clear that scaling up must begin with a sort of scaling down a distributed system of many local or regional food producers as opposed to just a few massive ones.