Ascent by or as if by a ladder

Usage examples of scaling.

Under the spruce by the hedgerow, the curie in the three-cornered hat reading his breviary had lost his right foot, and the very plaster, scaling off with the frost, had left white scabs on his face.

In simple physical systems the rules of scaling are understood, but even in complex inorganic situations like meteorology or aerodynamics, simple by the standard of biology, extrapolations are not easy.

He heard the Prince of Barrow through, hummed a line of some obscure monody, his patched eyebrows scaling his brow, then disappeared without excuse.

Allegro breaks out in the major key, an Allegro full of passion and delirium, deaf to the warnings of Heaven, regardless of remorse, enraptured of pleasure, madly inconstant and daring, rapid and impetuous as a torrent, flashing and swift as a sword, overleaping all obstacles, scaling balconies, and bewildering the alguazils.

Even Rabelais, who played with the Promethean myth of a usurping man capable of scaling Olympus, nevertheless ended his wise book with a parodistic portrayal of the mystery of human apotheosis in the guise of a descent into a wine cave.

According to Crocker it begins in the second or third week of life, and occasionally as late as the fifth week, with diffuse and universal scaling, which may be branny or in laminae like pityriasis rubra, and either dry or with suffusion beneath the epidermis.

His expression was as simple as resentment without understanding can be: now like plesiosaurus laboring all four limbs for the paddles they were, lifting a small head to see pterodactyl raise its absurd body on more absurd wings and with cumbrous scaling gain the sky, a ridiculous place to be, certainly, but for that moment he watched, disconcerting to plesiosaurus, to whom no such extravagance had ever occurred and who, by no feat of skill or imagination, could hope to accomplish it now.

Scaling having unearthed from the recesses of a cupboard a pack of somewhat greasy playing cards the beleaguered travellers were not restricted to spillikins or paper games, but embarked on several desperate gambling ventures, using dried peas for counters, and managing the cards and the bets of all the imaginary persons created by them to make up the correct number of gamesters.

I had discovered it when I was still a child, a way of scaling the stairless stones up to the remnants of a belfry high up above the town.

According to Crocker it begins in the second or third week of life, and occasionally as late as the fifth week, with diffuse and universal scaling, which may be branny or in laminae like pityriasis rubra, and either dry or with suffusion beneath the epidermis.

The dogs began by jumping over boards two and a half feet high, and slats were nailed to higher boards until the dogs were hitting the boards at about six feet and scaling the remainder of the wall.

These ratios are intrinsically pitch translation invariant, so the significance of consonant ratios explains both how pitch translation invariance is achieved, and also why it exists as a precise frequency scaling.

In a very analogous manner, comparisons of ratios between pairs of time durations are required to achieve time scaling invariant perception of rhythm.

Following a similar methodology as for pitch translation invariance, play different rhythms at different tempos, and look for cortical maps whose response is time scaling invariant.

For minor skin ailments, scalp eruptions, eczema, acne, scaling of the skin and allied conditions.