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Size

[sahyz]

noun

the spatial dimensions, proportions, magnitude, or bulk of anything: the size of a farm; the size of the fish you caught.

considerable or great magnitude: to seek size rather than quality.

one of a series of graduated measures for articles of manufacture or trade: children's sizes of shoes.

extent; amount; range: a fortune of great size.

actual condition, circumstance, or state of affairs: That's about the size of it.

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a number of population or contents: What size is Springfield, Illinois? The size of that last shipment was only a dozen.

Obsolete. a fixed standard of quality or quantity, as for food or drink.

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verb (used with object)

to separate or sort according to size.

to make of a certain size.

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Metallurgy. to press (a sintered compact) to close tolerances.

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Obsolete. to regulate or control according to a fixed standard.

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Verb phrase

12.

size up, Informal.

to form an estimate of (a situation, person, etc.); judge: They sized him up with a look.

to meet a certain standard: He doesn't size up to my expectations.

Idioms

13.

of a size, of the same or similar size: The two poodles are of a size.

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try on for size,

to put on briefly in order to test the fit of, as a garment or shoes.

to consider, evaluate, do, or use before taking further action: We'll try the plan on for size to see whether it's practical.

Origin:
1250–1300; (noun) Middle English syse orig., control, regulation, limit < Old French sise, aphetic variant of assise assize; (v.) in part representing late Middle English sisen to regulate (itself partly derivative of the noun, partly aphetic variant of assisen to fix, ordain, assess < Old French assiser, derivative of assise assize), in part derivative of the noun in later senses

Synonyms
1. Size, volume, mass, bulk are terms referring to the extent or dimensions of that which has magnitude and occupies space. Size is the general word: of great size; small in size. Volume often applies to something that has no fixed shape: Smoke has volume. Mass, also, does not suggest shape, but suggests a quantity of matter in a solid body: a mass of concrete. Bulk suggests weight, and often a recognizable, though perhaps unwieldy, shape: the huge bulk of an elephant.

Example Sentences

The cost of installing water meters varies according to both the size of the building and the number of water lines involved.

Pollen began looking for genes, near these deletions, that could affect brain size.

When size creates externalities, do what you would do with any negative externality: tax it.

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The cost of installing water meters varies according to both the size of the building and the number of water lines involved.

Pollen began looking for genes, near these deletions, that could affect brain size.

When size creates externalities, do what you would do with any negative externality: tax it.

The meteorite that wiped out the dinosaurs might have been less than half the size of what previous models predicted.

Their smaller-than-average size may be tied to maximizing reproduction.

Prize pumpkins have tripled in size in the past three decades.

Semidwarf pears are about half the size of standards.

People often judge a protest's success by the size of a crowd.

Even among people of normal weight, a large waist size significantly increases the risk for heart disease, a new study shows.

All but a handful of colleges and universities are deeply affected by the size of the applicant pool.

Multiply a city's rank by its population and the result will match the size of the biggest city.

Chemical reactors are shrinking to notebook and even credit card size.

Their effective population size according to this definition might be pretty close to zero.

The exposure time can be more than two hours, depending on the building's size.

The flowers are larger, with blooms approaching the size of snapdragons.

Here's a great way to make cardboard cutouts of pretty much any size from a regular digital image.

What you need to know about sensor size before you buy a new digital camera.

Some majors are not included because the sample size was too small to calculate a median income.

Iceland's banking collapse is the biggest, relative to the size of an economy, that any country has ever suffered.

Now scientists have developed a method to use these vocalizations to gauge the size of individual.

Magnetically levitated microbots, some the size of a pinhead, demonstrate construction skills on the small scale.

It is a tiny thing, a flake of bright metal about the size of a contact lens.

Move the projector forward or back until the pattern on the canvas is the desired size.

The size of certain parts of the brain can be used to predict videogame prowess, according to new research.

Dosages of antibiotics should be adjusted for size in adults, two researchers said in a new paper.

The size and quality of our education programs produce significant economic impact for the region.

Simply to add up the size of all the world's national economies would seem to be the.

Determine which image size is appropriate for your monitor.

Scientists are finally beginning to agree on what controls the size of the sheet and its rate of disintegration.

See animals up close and gain a better understanding of their habitat, size and adaptive characteristics.

If you are making a word or phrase stencil, use your computer to print out the word at the exact size you desire.

It's not a bird or a plane, but it is an ant the size of a hummingbird.

Locate your height and weight in the middle of a size block for best fit--if you're near the.

And when a wave meets an obstacle of about the same size as its wavelength, it is scattered in a process known as diffraction.

Determine which size is appropriate for your monitor.

Indeed, when it comes to walking, penguins expend twice as much energy as any other terrestrial animal of the same size.

Each tube contains a small, rooted plantlet about the size of your little finger.

Sprouting broccoli forms many small florets that are harvested when the size of buttons.

It's the smallest three-dimensional sculpture ever made: a bull the size of a red blood cell.

The problem here is going to be file size, file size, file size.

If so, the average size will drop even more dramatically.

Our brains are, after all, quite large relative to our body size.

We do have a few lizards that run on rear legs but the front ones are the same size.

Prune in winter to shape, encourage weeping habit, or reduce size.

The immense size of the biggest sauropods was made possible by a suite of evolutionary quirks not seen among mammals.

Previously, nonprofits of that size did not need to file returns.

When an earthquake is detected, the software immediately looks at the size of the tremor and the location of its epicentre.

The twist is that the zigs and zags change in size and spacing as they go from the outskirts toward the middle of the island:.

In a space about the size of a baseball diamond, lit by long rows of.

The size of the book depends on the size and thickness of the paper you choose.

The size of the team should be the size of the lunch table.

The size of the preference provided is a key variable, the research finds.

The study begins by estimating the size of mortgage-related losses using three different methods.

In other words: the size of the brain in proportion to the size of the body.

Dinner on the poolside patio is caviar and sturgeon, barbecued king prawns the size of turkey legs, sparkling wine and cognac.

Whatever your garden's size or style, good plant health is your first line of defense against potential problems of any kind.

Of the four layers, three have holes in the bottom which only let through a certain size of brick.

Pappas said the company would continue to make loans, but would reduce the size of its operation.

Yet another way to gauge its size is to look at electricity demand, which moves roughly in step with economic activity.

She recently correlated amygdala volume with the size of a person's social network.

They can routinely grow crystals that are several carats in size.

The size and strength of the bubbles determine the durability of the meringue.

Children and adults size up objects differently, giving youngsters protection.

Garner suggested that the size and severity of this problem continued to be ignored by publishers.

But all that has not yet made much of an impact on the overall size and complexion of the coalition force.

Roof maintenance, repair, and shading issues may also be mitigated due to the small size of the micro-cells.

Suddenly, the cat-about twice the size of an ordinary tabby-rises, elegantly arches its back and glares at me one last time.

Many choices, offering great variety in plant size and leaf color.

The size can be found using the angular size and the distance.

I've been involved in many searches on both sides over a couple of decades, so my sample size is hardly n=1.

And those that are broken up are invariably replaced with vessels that are twice the size and carry freight more cheaply.

These size changes are so frequent in the evolutionary history.

With only two traffic lights this town isn't the biggest but what it lacks in size it makes up in its.

The mini size shown here gives landscapes a polished look.

Quadrupling in size does not require a quadrupling in energy use.

These mobile kitchens stand out partly for their size.

So, a blue paint would use different size nanoparticles than a red paint.

That's obvious from the shape and size of their teeth.

One scale showing the orbits of the planets and another scale showing the size of the planets.

Comb size in females is a good predictor of egg size, and chicks hatched from large eggs have a better start in life.

Currently, the size of the silver nanoparticles he is using turns the paint yellow.

O'Dea can tell how warm the water was millions of years ago by looking at the size of fossilized bryozoan shells.

We can also guess at the physical size of the sensor.

Yet size can also be the enemy of investment performance.

Looking at the size of those tires, and the fact that you are powering.

Even if large size is not actually a handicap, it brings fewer benefits than it once did.

It was a powerfully influential finding, because at the time, skull size and shape were thought to be connected to intelligence.

Taranis is about the size of a small jet trainer, but with the look of a stealth bomber to make it hard to detect on radar.

In recent years, the genetic underpinnings of height and size in mammals have generated increasing interest from scientists.

Cavendish suspended a tiny lead dumb-bell by a thread and positioned it between two weights the size of bowling-balls.

To make these pictures useful for physics, it helps to know the angular size of the picture.

Crucially, the overall size of the fiscal multiplier also depends on how people react to higher government borrowing.

The total of failures also disguises the size of individual collapses.

Market capitalisation does not necessarily tally with other measures of size.

The first generation of robotic tuna had to be tethered to a heap of electronics the size of a fridge.

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Dictionary.com Unabridged

noun

any of various gelatinous or glutinous preparations made from glue, starch, etc., used for filling the pores of cloth, paper, etc., or as an adhesive ground for gold leaf on books.

verb (used with object)

to coat or treat with size.

Origin:
1400–50; late Middle English sise, syse (noun); perhaps special use of size¹

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World English Dictionary

size¹ (saɪz)

—n
1.	the dimensions, proportions, amount, or extent of something
2.	large or great dimensions, etc
3.	one of a series of graduated measurements, as of clothing: she takes size 4 shoes
4.	informal state of affairs as summarized: he's bankrupt, that's the size of it

—vb
5.	to sort according to size
6.	(tr) to make or cut to a particular size or sizes

[C13: from Old French sise, shortened from assiseassize]

usage The use of -size and -sized after large or small is redundant, except when describing something which is made in specific sizes: a large (not large-size) organization. Similarly, in size is redundant in the expressions large in size and small in size

'sizer¹

—n

size² (saɪz)

—n
1.	Also called: sizing a thin gelatinous mixture, made from glue, clay, or wax, that is used as a sealer or filler on paper, cloth, or plaster surfaces

—vb
2.	(tr) to treat or coat (a surface) with size

[C15: perhaps from Old French sise; see size¹]

'sizy²

—*adj*

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Word Origin & History

size

c.1300, "an ordinance to fix the amount of a payment or tax," from O.Fr. sise, shortened form of assise "session, assessment, regulation, manner" (see assize), probably a misdivision of l'assise as la sise. The sense of "extent, amount, magnitude" (c.1400) is from the notion

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of regulating something by fixing the amount of it (weights, food portions, etc.). Specific sense of "set of dimensions of an article of clothing or shoe" is attested from 1591. Sizeable "fairly large" is recorded from 1613.

size

c.1400, "to regulate," from size (n.). Meaning "to make of a certain size" is from 1609; that of "to classify according to size" is first attested 1635. Verbal phrase size up "estimate, assess" is from 1847 and retains the root sense of size (n.).

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American Heritage

Idioms & Phrases

size

In addition to the idiom beginning with size, also see cut down (to size); pick on (someone your own size); take down a notch (to size); that's about the size of it; try on (for size).