Glossary of Inspirational Quotes that Rekindle the Soul
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| Quote:Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility. In the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have is the ability to take on responsibility.[Michael Korda] Quote:Our country offers the most wonderful example of democratic government on a giant scale that the world has ever seen; and the peoples of the world are watching to see whether we succeed or fail.[Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale. [Arthur C. Clarke] Definitions of: scaleDefinition: The dish of a balance; hence, the balance itself; an instrument or machine for weighing; as, to turn the scale; -- chiefly used in the plural when applied to the whole instrument or apparatus for weighing. Also used figuratively.Definition: The sign or constellation Libra. Definition: One of the small, thin, membranous, bony or horny pieces which form the covering of many fishes and reptiles, and some mammals, belonging to the dermal part of the skeleton, or dermoskeleton. See Cycloid, Ctenoid, and Ganoid. Definition: Hence, any layer or leaf of metal or other material, resembling in size and thinness the scale of a fish; as, a scale of iron, of bone, etc. Definition: One of the small scalelike structures covering parts of some invertebrates, as those on the wings of Lepidoptera and on the body of Thysanura; the elytra of certain annelids. See Lepidoptera. Definition: A scale insect. (See below.) Definition: A small appendage like a rudimentary leaf, resembling the scales of a fish in form, and often in arrangement; as, the scale of a bud, of a pine cone, and the like. The name is also given to the chaff on the stems of ferns. Definition: The thin metallic side plate of the handle of a pocketknife. See Illust. of Pocketknife. Definition: An incrustation deposit on the inside of a vessel in which water is heated, as a steam boiler. Definition: The thin oxide which forms on the surface of iron forgings. It consists essentially of the magnetic oxide, Fe3O4. Also, a similar coating upon other metals. Definition: To separate and come off in thin layers or laminæ; as, some sandstone scales by exposure. Definition: To separate; to scatter. Definition: To climb by a ladder, or as if by a ladder; to ascend by steps or by climbing; to clamber up; as, to scale the wall of a fort. |
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