noun, verb, sized, siz⋅ing.| 1. | the spatial dimensions, proportions, magnitude, or bulk of anything: the size of a farm; the size of the fish you caught. |
| 2. | considerable or great magnitude: to seek size rather than quality. |
| 3. | one of a series of graduated measures for articles of manufacture or trade: children's sizes of shoes. |
| 4. | extent; amount; range: a fortune of great size. |
| 5. | actual condition, circumstance, or state of affairs: That's about the size of it. |
| 6. | a number of population or contents: What size is Springfield, Illinois? The size of that last shipment was only a dozen. |
| 7. | Obsolete. a fixed standard of quality or quantity, as for food or drink. |
| 8. | to separate or sort according to size. |
| 9. | to make of a certain size. |
| 10. | Metallurgy. to press (a sintered compact) to close tolerances. |
| 11. | Obsolete. to regulate or control according to a fixed standard. |
| 12. | size up, Informal.
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| 13. | of a size, of the same or similar size: The two poodles are of a size. |
| 14. | try on for size,
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size
The market for a security in which a relatively large volume is being offered for sale or in which a large volume can be absorbed. Size in a security is more important for institutional investors than it is for individuals, because most individuals usually do not trade in sufficiently high volume to warrant concern about the size of the market.
The number of units bid for and offered in the current quote, usually expressed in abbreviated form, such as, BP 5.10-.15, 2,000 by 1,000.
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).