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Size   /saɪz/   Listen
noun
Size  n.  Six.


Size  n.  
1.
A thin, weak glue used in various trades, as in painting, bookbinding, paper making, etc.
2.
Any viscous substance, as gilder's varnish.


Size  n.  
1.
A settled quantity or allowance. See Assize. (Obs.) "To scant my sizes."
2.
(Univ. of Cambridge, Eng.) An allowance of food and drink from the buttery, aside from the regular dinner at commons; corresponding to battel at Oxford.
3.
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.
4.
Figurative bulk; condition as to rank, ability, character, etc.; as, the office demands a man of larger size. "Men of a less size and quality." "The middling or lower size of people."
5.
A conventional relative measure of dimension, as for shoes, gloves, and other articles made up for sale.
6.
An instrument consisting of a number of perforated gauges fastened together at one end by a rivet, used for ascertaining the size of pearls.
Size roll, a small piese of parchment added to a roll.
Size stick, a measuring stick used by shoemakers for ascertaining the size of the foot.
Synonyms: Dimension; bigness; largeness; greatness; magnitude.


verb
Size  v. t.  (past & past part. sized; pres. part. sizing)  To cover with size; to prepare with size.


Size  v. t.  
1.
To fix the standard of. "To size weights and measures." (R.)
2.
To adjust or arrange according to size or bulk. Specifically:
(a)
(Mil.) To take the height of men, in order to place them in the ranks according to their stature.
(b)
(Mining) To sift, as pieces of ore or metal, in order to separate the finer from the coarser parts.
3.
To swell; to increase the bulk of.
4.
(Mech.) To bring or adjust anything exactly to a required dimension, as by cutting.
To size up, to estimate or ascertain the character and ability of. See 4th Size, 4. (Slang, U.S.) "We had to size up our fellow legislators."


Size  v. i.  
1.
To take greater size; to increase in size. "Our desires give them fashion, and so, As they wax lesser, fall, as they size, grow."
2.
(Univ. of Cambridge, Eng.) To order food or drink from the buttery; hence, to enter a score, as upon the buttery book.





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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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