shield vs scale

scale vs shield

shield and scale both are nouns.

shield and scale both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
shield	Yes	No	Yes	No
scale	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, scale is a hyponym of shield; that is, scale is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than shield:

shield: a protective covering or structure
scale: a metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners)

Other hyponyms of shield include nipple shield, plate, shell, shielding, shielding.

shield (noun)	scale (noun)
hard outer covering or case of certain organisms such as arthropods and turtles	a flattened rigid plate forming part of the body covering of many animals
armor carried on the arm to intercept blows	an indicator having a graduated sequence of marks
a protective covering or structure	a measuring instrument for weighing; shows amount of mass
	a metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners)
	(music) a series of notes differing in pitch according to a specific scheme (usually within an octave)
	a thin flake of dead epidermis shed from the surface of the skin
	a specialized leaf or bract that protects a bud or catkin
	relative magnitude
	the ratio between the size of something and a representation of it
	an ordered reference standard

shield (verb)	scale (verb)
protect, hide, or conceal from danger or harm	measure with or as if with scales
hold back a thought or feeling about	size or measure according to a scale
	remove the scales from
	pattern, make, regulate, set, measure, or estimate according to some rate or standard
	climb up by means of a ladder
	reach the highest point of
	take by attacking with scaling ladders
	measure by or as if by a scale

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