Size

[saɪz]

解釋/意思:

(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

解釋/意思:

(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.

伊丽莎白編輯

同義詞及近義詞：

n. [1]. Bigness, greatness, magnitude, bulk, volume, dimensions.[2]. Sizing, weak glue, glutinous substance.

卡里校對

同義詞及反義詞：

SYN:Greatness, magnitude, largeness, extent, dimension, bulk, extent, bigness

ANT:Smallness, littleness, tenuity, minuteness

整理:肯尼思

解釋/意思:

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