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noun

Sizing n.

1.

Act of covering or treating with size.

2.

A weak glue used in various trades; size.

Sizing n.

1.

The act of sorting with respect to size.

2.

The act of bringing anything to a certain size.

3.

(Univ. of Cambridge, Eng.) Food and drink ordered from the buttery by a student.

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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"Sizing" Quotes from Famous Books

... paper as flax paper is still called, though it is no longer made in Holland, is slightly sized; but every sheet is sized separately by hand, and this increases the cost of production. If it were possible to discover some way of sizing the paper in the pulping-trough, with some inexpensive glue, like that in use to-day (though even now it is not quite perfect), there would be no "improvement on the patent" to fear. For the past month, accordingly, David had been making experiments in sizing ...

— Lost Illusions • Honore De Balzac

... Porter, fourth and fifth directors, were much struck with Mr. Hickok's statement. They averred that they had made a point of reading the Post editorials during the Colonel's absence, with a view to sizing up the assistant, and had been highly pleased with the character of ...

— Queed • Henry Sydnor Harrison

... hide his nature than a lover, and Warner found himself burrowing into Nelly's life a bit and sizing up her character, though full of caution not to commit himself; and she was very near as clever as him, and got to weigh up his points, good and bad, and to feel along with such a man that life might be pleasant enough for a nature ...

— The Torch and Other Tales • Eden Phillpotts

... too—but in contradiction, "I've known of much stranger things than that, Mr. Allerdyke," he said confidently. "Very much stranger things. Your cousin, according to your account of him, was an uncommonly sharp man. He was quick at sizing up things and people. He was the sort—as you've represented him to me—that was what's termed fertile in resource. Now, I've been theorizing a bit as I came up in the train; one's got to in my line, you know. Supposing your cousin got an idea ...

— The Rayner-Slade Amalgamation • J. S. Fletcher

... shifting; every college team does," said Dick; and he was right. After a good deal of scrub work and a general sizing up of the different candidates, four of the old players were dropped, while another went to the ...

— The Rover Boys at College • Edward Stratemeyer

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