Size
[saɪz]
Definition
(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' .
Checker: Neil--From WordNet
Definition
(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.
Inputed by Elisabeth
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Bigness, greatness, magnitude, bulk, volume, dimensions.[2]. Sizing, weak glue, glutinous substance.
Edited by Cary
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Greatness, magnitude, largeness, extent, dimension, bulk, extent, bigness
ANT:Smallness, littleness, tenuity, minuteness
Checked by Kenneth
Definition
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.
Editor: Verna
Examples
- Here Darwin observed crabs of monstrous size, with a structure which ena bled them to open the cocoanuts. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- 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. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- A joint of any size could be soaked; the only thing was to give it plenty of time. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- However the parts may differ in shape or size, their structure and composition are in general the same. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- They were about the size of those seen in old-fashioned country hotels for holding the wash-bowl and pitcher. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The size of their following, the intensity of their demands are a fair index of what the statesman must think about. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- All unfortunate men of my size suffer from the heat, said the Count, refreshing himself gravely with a large green fan. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- He knew how to blow any sort of bridge that you could name and he had blown them of all sizes and constructions. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Lubbock made drawings for me, with the camera lucida, of the jaws which I dissected from the workers of the several sizes. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- I read in th' papers every 'Sizes, every Sessions—and you read too—I know it! Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Cannon were made of all sizes and calibres, but were not arranged in battle with much precision. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Besides different forms and sizes he tried various materials of construction, and ultimately various means of propulsion. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- A long line of inventions has appeared especially adapted to break up and separate coal into different sizes. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- It was one or two sizes larger than those I had previously built. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- 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. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- 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. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- The statues are all large; the palace is grand; the park covers a fair-sized county; the avenues are interminable. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- 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. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- 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. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The felts were then removed, and the sheets were piled upon one another and again pressed, after which they were dried, sized, and finished. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- 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. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- It consists of a series of silk disks saturated with a sizing of plumbago and well dried. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Or this sizing may be applied to the pulp at the outset of the operation. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- 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. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Instead of helping the specific task of teaching, it prevents the use of ordinary judgment in observing and sizing up the situation. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
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