rescale
rescale — verb
- rescalepresent simple I / you / we / they
- rescales3rd person singular
- rescaling-ing form
- rescaledpast simple
1. to redesign or replan something so that it works at a different size, very often
to redesign or replan something so that it works at a different size, very often a smaller one than before
After the funding was cut, Sade had to rescale the whole festival into a one-day event.
rescale + object for shrinking a project
The city council voted to rescale the new park to fit a much tighter budget.
rescale + object after a budget cut
Engineers rescaled the bridge design when the river turned out to be wider than expected.
The map was rescaled so that one centimetre now stood for ten kilometres instead of five.
Emre rescaled his bakery business to serve just the local village after the city store closed.
- resize
more about changing physical dimensions of an image or object than replanning a project
- downsize
specifically making smaller, often jobs or a company; rescale can go either direction
- scale back
informal phrasal verb; same idea of reducing the size or scope of a plan
- scale up
to expand something to a larger size or capacity
文法句型
rescale + object
rescale + object + to + new size
用法筆記
Object is usually a plan, design, project, image, or quantity rather than a physical object. The new size is frequently smaller, so the verb often signals cutting back.