Hold and Scale

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Hold verb - To have or keep in one's hands.

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Scale and hold are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Scale" instead a verb "Hold".

Nearby Words: holding, holder, holdback

Scale verb - To find out the size, extent, or amount of.

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Hold and scale are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Hold" instead a verb "Scale".

Nearby Words: scaled, scaling, scalable

old	old hold	old scale
good	good hold	good scale
full	full hold	full scale
long	long hold	long scale
Other adjectives: short, proper, single, simple, small, actual, entire, massive, large, big, huge, bigger, industrial.

In addition, the ships are not in scale with each other, meaning a colony ship large enough to hold a billion colonists won't be much larger than a one-man fighter.

Source: Units Not to Scale
To hold in my hand a capsule that contained such power... to know that life and death on such a scale was my choice.

Source: A God Am I / Live-Action TV
Depending on where we fall on the sliding scale, we may get a "but not today" rebuttal, or a "but not forever" rebuttal for works that hold to the existence of an afterlife.

Source: We All Die Someday

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