Antonyms for scaling

Grammar : Verb

Spell : skey-ling

Phonetic Transcription : ˈskeɪ lɪŋ

Definition of scaling

Origin : "skin plates on fish or snakes," c.1300, from Old French escale "cup, scale, shell pod, husk" (12c., Modern French écale) "scale, husk," from Frankish *skala or some other Germanic source, from Proto-Germanic *skælo "split, divide" (cf. Dutch schaal "a scale, husk," Old High German scala "shell," Gothic skalja "tile," Old English scealu "shell, husk"), from PIE root *(s)kel- (1) "to cut, cleave, split" (cf. Latin culter "knife," scalpere "to cut, scrape;" Old Church Slavonic skolika "mussel, shell," Russian skala "rind, bark," Lithuanian skelti "split," Old English scell "shell," scalu "drinking cup, bowl, scale of a balance").
In reference to humans, as a condition of certain skin diseases, it is attested from c.1400. As what falls from one's eye when blindness ends (usually figurative), it echoes Acts ix:18 (Latin tanquam squamæ, Greek hosei lepides).

verb ascend, climb
verb measure

Example sentences :

Scaling his lookout crag, he surveyed the country below him.
Extract from : « Out of the Depths » by Robert Ames Bennet

I succeeded by means of the rubbish heap in scaling the wall.
Extract from : « Kilgorman » by Talbot Baines Reed

We have neither cannon to blow down the walls, nor means of scaling them.
Extract from : « No Surrender! » by G. A. Henty

To his joy, he had discovered that there was a possibility of scaling it.
Extract from : « The Free Lances » by Mayne Reid

He sought for some means of scaling the cliff, but found none.
Extract from : « The Copper Princess » by Kirk Munroe

Once tasted, the next step is like to be the scaling of the wall.
Extract from : « The Guardian Angel » by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

His remaining works are much injured by scaling or the abrasion of the colors.
Extract from : « Introduction to Robert Browning » by Hiram Corson

When a wall is too high one does not even think of scaling it.
Extract from : « The Origins of Contemporary France, Volume 2 (of 6) » by Hippolyte A. Taine

I could have no use for the gun, and it would hinder me in scaling the cliffs.
Extract from : « The War Trail » by Mayne Reid

It was his tracks, then, I had observed while scaling the cliff!
Extract from : « The War Trail » by Mayne Reid

Synonyms for scaling

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