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scaf • fold • ing / ' skrefaldig / noun

[noncount]

metal bars and pieces of wood joined together, where people can stand when they are working on high parts of a building

scald / skold / verb ( scalds , scald - ing , scald ed )

( HEALTH ) to burn someone or something with very hot liquid

scale © / skeil / noun

[ count ] a set of levels or numbers used for measuring something

Their work is assessed on a scale from 1 to 10.

[ count, noncount ] the size or level of something

It was not until morning that the full scale of the damage could be seen.

[ count ] a machine for showing how heavy people or things are

a bathroom scale

[ count ] how distances are shown on a map This map has a scale of one inch to ten miles.

( MUSIC ) [ count ] a series of musical notes that go up or down in a fixed order

the scale of C major

[ count ] one of the flat hard things that cover the body of animals like fish and snakes

—Look at the picture at fish .

scal • lop / ' skrelap ; ' skalap / noun [count]

a small animal that lives in the ocean and that you can eat. It has two round shells that fit together.

scalp / skrelp / noun [ count ]

the skin on the top of your head, under your hair

scan 1 / skren / verb (scans,scan -ning ,scanned )

to look at or read every part of something quickly until you find what you are looking for

Vic scanned the list until he found his own name.

(used about a machine) to examine what is inside a person's body or inside an object

All luggage is scanned before it is loaded onto the plane.

( COMPUTERS ) to pass light over a picture or document using an electronic machine (called a scanner ) in order to copy it and put it in the memory of a computer

scan2 / skren / noun [ count ] ( HEALTH ) a medical test in which a machine produces a picture of the inside of a person's body on a computer screen to have a full body scan a brain scan

scan • dal / ' skrendl / noun

[ count ] something that shocks people and makes them talk about it because they think it is bad

a political scandal

[ noncount ] unkind talk about someone that gives you a bad idea of them

scan • ner / ' skrenar / noun [ count ]

( COMPUTERS ) a piece of equipment that copies words or pictures from paper into a computer

( HEALTH ) a machine that gives a picture of the inside of something. Doctors use one kind of scanner to look inside people's bodies.

scape • goat / ' skeipgout / noun [ count ]

a person who is blamed for something bad that is usually not their fault

She felt that she was a scapegoat for her manager's mistakes.

scar / skar / noun [ count ]

( HEALTH ) a mark that is left on your skin by an old cut or wound

The operation didn't leave a very big scar. ► scar verb ( scars , scar - ring , scarred )

His face was badly scarred by the accident.

scarce / skers / adjective ( scarc - er , scarc - est )

difficult to find; not enough

Food for wild birds and animals is scarce in the winter.

scarce • ly / ' skersli / adverb

almost not; just

He was so afraid that he could scarcely speak.

SCare 1 ©/ sker / verb ( scares, scar ing, scared)

to make someone feel afraid That noise scared me!

—SYNONYM frighten scare 2 / sker / noun [ count ]

a feeling of being afraid You gave me a scare !

a situation where many people are afraid or worried about something

a health scare

scare • crow / ' skerkrou / noun [ count ]

a thing that looks like a person, which farmers put in their fields to frighten birds

scared © / skerd / adjective

afraid

Claire is scared of the dark. Thesaurus

afraid feeling fear; worried that something bad might happen. This word cannot come before a noun, so you can say "the man is afraid" but NOT "an afraid man": Are you afraid of spiders? ♦ Alex is afraid of going out after dark. ♦ We were afraid to go into the cave. ♦ He's afraid that he'll fall.