Size
[saɪz]
解释:
(noun.) the property resulting from being one of a series of graduated measurements (as of clothing); 'he wears a size 13 shoe'.
(noun.) the physical magnitude of something (how big it is); 'a wolf is about the size of a large dog'.
(noun.) a large magnitude; 'he blanched when he saw the size of the bill'; 'the only city of any size in that area'.
(noun.) the actual state of affairs; 'that's the size of the situation'; 'she hates me, that's about the size of it'.
(noun.) any glutinous material used to fill pores in surfaces or to stiffen fabrics; 'size gives body to a fabric'.
(verb.) make to a size; bring to a suitable size.
(verb.) sort according to size.
(verb.) cover or stiffen or glaze a porous material with size or sizing (a glutinous substance).
(adj.) (used in combination) sized; 'the economy-size package'; 'average-size house' .
手打:尼尔--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) Six.
(v. i.) A thin, weak glue used in various trades, as in painting, bookbinding, paper making, etc.
(v. i.) Any viscous substance, as gilder's varnish.
(v. t.) To cover with size; to prepare with size.
(n.) A settled quantity or allowance. See Assize.
(n.) An allowance of food and drink from the buttery, aside from the regular dinner at commons; -- corresponding to battel at Oxford.
(n.) Extent of superficies or volume; bulk; bigness; magnitude; as, the size of a tree or of a mast; the size of a ship or of a rock.
(n.) Figurative bulk; condition as to rank, ability, character, etc.; as, the office demands a man of larger size.
(n.) A conventional relative measure of dimension, as for shoes, gloves, and other articles made up for sale.
(n.) An instrument consisting of a number of perforated gauges fastened together at one end by a rivet, -- used for ascertaining the size of pearls.
(v. t.) To fix the standard of.
(v. t.) To adjust or arrange according to size or bulk.
(v. t.) To take the height of men, in order to place them in the ranks according to their stature.
(v. t.) To sift, as pieces of ore or metal, in order to separate the finer from the coarser parts.
(v. t.) To swell; to increase the bulk of.
(v. t.) To bring or adjust anything exactly to a required dimension, as by cutting.
(v. i.) To take greater size; to increase in size.
(v. i.) To order food or drink from the buttery; hence, to enter a score, as upon the buttery book.
伊丽莎白编辑
同义词及近义词：
n. [1]. Bigness, greatness, magnitude, bulk, volume, dimensions.[2]. Sizing, weak glue, glutinous substance.
卡里校对
同义词及反义词：
SYN:Greatness, magnitude, largeness, extent, dimension, bulk, extent, bigness
ANT:Smallness, littleness, tenuity, minuteness
整理:肯尼思
解释:
n. extent of volume or surface: magnitude: an allotted portion: (pl.) allowances (Shak.).—v.t. to arrange according to size: at Cambridge to buy rations at a certain fixed rate: to measure.—v.i. to increase in size.—adjs. Sī′zable Size′able of suitable size: of considerable size or bulk; Sized having a particular size.—ns. Sī′zer one who or that which sizes or measures a kind of gauge; Sī′zing act of sorting articles according to size esp. crushed or stamped ores in mining: an order for extra food from a college buttery.—Size up to measure consider carefully.
n. a kind of weak glue used as varnish: any gluey substance.—v.t. to cover with size.—adj. Sized having size in its composition.—n. Sī′ziness.—adj. Sī′zy size-like: glutinous.
整理:弗娜
例句:
- Here Darwin observed crabs of monstrous size, with a structure which ena bled them to open the cocoanuts. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- Finally I put a rope to my trunk, which was about the size of a carpenter's chest, and started to pull this from the baggage-car to the passenger-car. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- A joint of any size could be soaked; the only thing was to give it plenty of time. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
- However the parts may differ in shape or size, their structure and composition are in general the same. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
- They were about the size of those seen in old-fashioned country hotels for holding the wash-bowl and pitcher. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- The size of their following, the intensity of their demands are a fair index of what the statesman must think about. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- All unfortunate men of my size suffer from the heat, said the Count, refreshing himself gravely with a large green fan. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- He knew how to blow any sort of bridge that you could name and he had blown them of all sizes and constructions. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
- Lubbock made drawings for me, with the camera lucida, of the jaws which I dissected from the workers of the several sizes. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
- I read in th' papers every 'Sizes, every Sessions—and you read too—I know it! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
- Cannon were made of all sizes and calibres, but were not arranged in battle with much precision. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- Besides different forms and sizes he tried various materials of construction, and ultimately various means of propulsion. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- A long line of inventions has appeared especially adapted to break up and separate coal into different sizes. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- It was one or two sizes larger than those I had previously built. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- Such an arrangement of wire is known as a helix or solenoid, and is capable of lifting or pulling larger and more numerous filings and even good-sized pieces of iron, such as tacks. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
- That the small size of the egg is a real case of adaptation we may infer from the fact of the mon-parasitic American cuckoo laying full-sized eggs. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
- The statues are all large; the palace is grand; the park covers a fair-sized county; the avenues are interminable. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- It is of no use trying him with anything less than a full-sized bread or proposing to him any joint in cut unless it is in the very best cut. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- Both stood on one side, the tall junior behind the under-sized senior, looking forth carefully, so that they might not be visible from without. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- The felts were then removed, and the sheets were piled upon one another and again pressed, after which they were dried, sized, and finished. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
- The idea is to break up the surface into various sized dots, as the various gradations of color on the original cannot be transferred by any other method to a sheet of copper and etched. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- It consists of a series of silk disks saturated with a sizing of plumbago and well dried. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- Or this sizing may be applied to the pulp at the outset of the operation. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- When it is desired to give it a smooth, glossy surface, the paper, after its completion, is passed through animal sizing material, and then between drying and smoothing rollers. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- Instead of helping the specific task of teaching, it prevents the use of ordinary judgment in observing and sizing up the situation. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
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