scale up

développer, augmenter la capacité

Développer une entreprise ou un processus pour produire davantage ou traiter plus de demandes.

En anglais simple : To change a business or process so it can produce or handle more.

• We need to scale up production.
• The company scaled up its operations as demand grew.
• Can this process scale up to serve a million users?

Comment l'utiliser : scale something up (The factory plans to scale its production up.); scale up to something (We need to scale up to ten thousand orders a day.)

Synonymes : expand, increase, grow

Contraires : reduce

Expressions courantes : scale up production, scale up operations

agrandir à l’échelle

Agrandir quelque chose en conservant les proportions de ses parties.

En anglais simple : To make something larger while keeping the same relative sizes of its parts.

• Scale up the image, please.
• She scaled up the diagram to fit the poster.
• Can we scale this model up without changing its proportions?

Comment l'utiliser : scale something up by something (Scale the drawing up by twenty percent.); scale something up to something (We scaled the model up to twice its original size.)

Synonymes : enlarge, magnify

Contraires : reduce

Expressions courantes : scale up an image, scale up a model

escalader, grimper

Grimper vers le sommet d’un mur, d’une falaise ou d’une autre surface escarpée.

En anglais simple : To climb toward the top of a wall, cliff, or other steep surface.

• They scaled up the wall.
• The climbers scaled up the cliff before sunset.
• Could anyone scale up that icy rock face?

Comment l'utiliser : scale up something (They scaled up the steep cliff with ropes.)

Synonymes : climb up, ascend

Contraires : descend

Expressions courantes : scale up a wall, scale up a cliff