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Size   /saɪz/   Listen
Size

noun
1.
The physical magnitude of something (how big it is).
2.
The property resulting from being one of a series of graduated measurements (as of clothing).
3.
Any glutinous material used to fill pores in surfaces or to stiffen fabrics.  Synonym: sizing.
4.
The actual state of affairs.  Synonym: size of it.  "She hates me, that's about the size of it"
5.
A large magnitude.  "The only city of any size in that area"
verb
(past & past part. sized; pres. part. sizing)
1.
Cover or stiffen or glaze a porous material with size or sizing (a glutinous substance).
2.
Sort according to size.
3.
Make to a size; bring to a suitable size.
adjective
1.
(used in combination) sized.  "Average-size house"



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"Size" Quotes from Famous Books



... begging, and the color of the roads, that does not fit Surrey as well as Spain. The difference is that the Surrey hills are comparatively small and ugly, and should properly be called the Surrey Protuberances; but these Spanish hills are of mountain stock: the amenity which conceals their size does not compromise ...
— Man And Superman • George Bernard Shaw
... word of courage to cheer us onward. We were placed on short allowance of food from the start, and each day this allowance was cut shorter and shorter, until we received each for our evening and morning meal two small pieces of jerked beef, about the size of the index finger of the hand. Finally, the last ration was issued in the evening. This was intended for that evening and the next morning, but I was so famished I could not resist the temptation to eat all I had—the two ...
— History of the Donner Party • C.F. McGlashan
... and several officers, a bad road, very arduous for pedestrians, leading the first part of the way over fields of scoria, though as Laguna is approached the scenery improves. This town, of a considerable size, contains but a small, indolent, and ...
— Celebrated Travels and Travellers - Part III. The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century • Jules Verne
... we are on marine matters, I must notice the prodigious size of the lobsters off Boston Coast: they could stow a dozen common English lobsters under their coats of mail. My very much respected friend Sir Isaac Coffin, when he was here, once laid a wager that he would ...
— Diary in America, Series One • Frederick Marryat (AKA Captain Marryat)
... died on his lips. A girl scarcely more than a child came in from the hotel entrance. She was dressed in a lacey gown, a size too large for her. The slit skirt displayed her slim ankles in pink silk stockings. The French heeled shoes were decorated with rhinestone buckles. In spite of this outrageous dress she was still ...
— Little Lost Sister • Virginia Brooks


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