escala
Meanings
Noun
1. ladder (a frame, usually portable, of wood, metal, or rope, used for ascent and descent)
2. scale (an ordered, usually numerical sequence used for measurement, means of assigning a magnitude)
3. scale (a series of notes spanning an octave) (music)
4. ladder, hierarchy (of a company, of the military)
5. scale (the ratio of depicted distance to actual distance)
6. scale (size; scope)
7. stopover, layover (a short interruption in a journey or the place visited during such an interruption)
Examples11
Intenta tocar esta escala.
Try playing this scale.
Estoy haciendo negocios a gran escala.
I am doing business on a large scale.
A él le gusta armar aviones a escala.
He likes to build model planes.
¿Hace alguna escala este vuelo?
Does this flight make any stop-overs?
El barco hará escala en Cádiz.
The ship will make a stop at Cadiz.
Quiero un mapa de Texas a una escala de 1 a 250000.
I want a map of Texas on a scale of 1 to 250000.