fjäll — meaning in English
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English meaning
- fell verb To cut something down, especially a tree, or to knock someone or something to the ground.
- scale noun The size, extent, or proportion of something, especially compared to something else.
- shell noun The hard outer covering of certain animals, such as snails, crabs, and turtles, or of eggs and nuts.
Senses
fjäll is used for these senses in English:
- fell (archaic, _, outside, _, Northern England, Scotland) A rocky ridge or chain of mountains, particularly in the British Isles or Fennoscandia.
- scale Part of an overlapping arrangement of many small, flat and hard pieces of keratin covering the skin of an animal, particularly a fish or reptile.
- scute (zoology) A horny, chitinous, or bony external plate or scale, as on the shell of a turtle or the skin of crocodiles.
- shell The overlapping hard plates comprising the armor covering the armadillo's body.
fell — full definition
- verb To cut something down, especially a tree, or to knock someone or something to the ground.
- adj Cruel and merciless; fierce and deadly.
- noun A high, bare stretch of hill or moorland, especially in northern England.
scale — full definition
- noun The size, extent, or proportion of something, especially compared to something else.
- noun A series of marked measurements used for comparison, such as on a ruler, map, or rating system.
- noun One of the small, hard, overlapping plates covering the skin of fish and reptiles.
- noun An instrument for measuring weight.
- verb To increase or decrease something in size while keeping its proportions, especially to grow a business or process.