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scala
/ˈskɑlə/
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What does scala mean?
noun
- Ladder; sequence.
- Ladder-like structure in the cochlea of a mammal's ear.
- A machine formerly used for reducing dislocations of the humerus.
More meanings (2)
proper noun
- A surname from Italian.
- A statically-typed multi-paradigm programming language designed to run on the JVM.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈskɑlə/
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She had left Francis Westwick at Milan, occupied in negotiating for the appearance at his theatre of the new dancer at the Scala.
What traveller is unacquainted with the Santa Scala, or Holy Stairs, at Rome?
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M. Cordier found at Teneriffe xeolite in an amygdaloid which covers the basalts of La Punta di Naga.) In like manner the lava of Scala, with which the city of Naples is paved, contains a close mixture of basalt, nepheline, and leucite.
“His time is inexhaustible; he has nothing under the sun to do. Have you, Rowland? If you had seen the big hole I have been making in it! Where will you go first? You have your choice--from the Scala Santa to the Cloaca Maxima.”
Soon after dark, we halted for the night, at the osteria of La Scala: a perfectly lone house, where the family were sitting round a great fire in the kitchen, raised on a stone platform three or four feet high, and big enough for the roasting of an ox.