Word Meanings - SCALEBEAM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The lever or beam of a balance; the lever of a platform scale, to which the poise for weighing is applied. 2. A weighing apparatus with a sliding weight, resembling a steelyard.

Related words: (words related to SCALEBEAM)

• APPLICABLE
  Capable of being applied; fit or suitable to be applied; having relevance; as, this observation is applicable to the case under consideration. -- Ap"pli*ca*ble*ness, n. -- Ap"pli*ca*bly, adv.
• APPLICATIVE
  Having of being applied or used; applying; applicatory; practical. Bramhall. -- Ap"pli*ca*tive*ly, adv.
• LEVERAGE
  The action of a lever; mechanical advantage gained by the lever. Leverage of a couple , the perpendicular distance between the lines of action of two forces which act in parallel and opposite directions. -- Leverage of a force, the perpendicular
• APPLICANCY
  The quality or state of being applicable.
• APPLICABILITY
  The quality of being applicable or fit to be applied.
• SCALEBOARD
  A thin slip of wood used to justify a page. Crabb. 2. A thin veneer of leaf of wood used for covering the surface of articles of firniture, and the like. Scaleboard plane, a plane for cutting from a board a wide shaving forming a scaleboard.
• WEIGHTINESS
  The quality or state of being weighty; weight; force; importance; impressiveness.
• WEIGHTILY
  In a weighty manner.
• APPLICATORILY
  By way of application.
• WEIGHMASTER
  One whose business it is to weigh ore, hay, merchandise, etc.; one licensed as a public weigher.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• SCALEBEAM
  1. The lever or beam of a balance; the lever of a platform scale, to which the poise for weighing is applied. 2. A weighing apparatus with a sliding weight, resembling a steelyard.
• BALANCEMENT
  The act or result of balancing or adjusting; equipoise; even adjustment of forces. Darwin.
• WEIGHER
  One who weighs; specifically, an officer whose duty it is to weigh commodities.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• WEIGH-HOUSE
  A building at or within which goods, and the like, are weighed.
• SLIDE
  To pass from one note to another with no perceptible cassation of sound. 7. To pass out of one's thought as not being of any consequence. With good hope let he sorrow slide. Chaucer. With a calm carelessness letting everything slide. Sir P. Sidney.
• RESEMBLINGLY
  So as to resemble; with resemblance or likeness.
• STEELYARD
  A form of balance in which the body to be weighed is suspended from the shorter arm of a lever, which turns on a fulcrum, and a counterpoise is caused to slide upon the longer arm to produce equilibrium, its place upon this arm indicating
• SLIDDER
  To slide with interruption. Dryden.
• COUNTER WEIGHT
  A counterpoise.
• GUNTER'S SCALE
  A scale invented by the Rev. Edmund Gunter , a professor of astronomy at Gresham College, London, who invented also Gunter's chain, and Gunter's quadrant. Note: Gunter's scale is a wooden rule, two feet long, on one side of which are marked scales
• UNAPPLIABLE
  Inapplicable. Milton.
• REAPPLICATION
  The act of reapplying, or the state of being reapplied.
• BACKSLIDING
  Slipping back; falling back into sin or error; sinning. Turn, O backsliding children, saith the Lord. Jer. iii. 14.
• WELTERWEIGHT
  1. A weight of 28 pounds (one of 40 pounds is called a heavy welterweight) sometimes imposed in addition to weight for age, chiefly in steeplechases and hurdle races. 2. A boxer or wrestler whose weight is intermediate between that
• INAPPLICABILITY
  The quality of being inapplicable; unfitness; inapplicableness.
• CANTILEVER
  See CANTALEVER
• COUNTERPOISE
  countrepesen, counterpeisen, F. contrepeser. See Counter, adv., and 1. To act against with equal weight; to equal in weght; to balance the weight of; to counterbalance. Weigts, counterpoising one another. Sir K. Digby. 2. To act against with equal