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size

1  [sahyz] noun, verb, sized, siz⋅ing.
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–noun
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.
–verb (used with object)
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.
—Verb phrase
12. size up, Informal.
a. to form an estimate of (a situation, person, etc.); judge: They sized him up with a look.
b. 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.
14. try on for size,
a. to put on briefly in order to test the fit of, as a garment or shoes.
b. 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; (n.) ME syse orig., control, regulation, limit < OF sise, aph. var. of assise assize; (v.) in part repr. late ME sisen to regulate (itself partly deriv. of the n., partly aph. var. of assisen to fix, ordain, assess < OF assiser, deriv. of assise assize ), in part deriv. of the n. 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.

size

2  [sahyz] noun, verb, sized, siz⋅ing.
–noun
1. 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)
2. to coat or treat with size.
Origin:
1400–50; late ME sise, syse (n.); perh. special use of size 1
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size 1   (sīz)   
n.  
  1. The physical dimensions, proportions, magnitude, or extent of an object.
  2. Any of a series of graduated categories of dimension whereby manufactured articles, such as shoes and clothing, are classified.
    1. Considerable extent, amount, or dimensions: a debt of enormous size.
    2. Relative amount or number, as of population or contents: What size is Cleveland?
  4. Character, value, or status with reference to relative importance or the capacity to meet given requirements: Try this proposal on for size.
  5. The actual state of affairs: That's about the size of the situation.
tr.v.   sized, siz·ing, siz·es
  1. To arrange, classify, or distribute according to size.
  2. To make, cut, or shape to a required size.
adj.  Sized. Often used in combination: bite-size appetizers; an economy-size package.
Phrasal Verb(s):
size upTo make an estimate, opinion, or judgment of: She sized up her opponent.

[Middle English sise, from Old French, court session, law, short for assise; see assize.]
siz'er n.
size 2   (sīz)   
n.  Any of several gelatinous or glutinous substances usually made from glue, wax, or clay and used as a glaze or filler for porous materials such as paper, cloth, or wall surfaces.
tr.v.   sized, siz·ing, siz·es
To treat or coat with size or a similar substance.

[Middle English sise, probably from Old French, a setting; see size1.]
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Size

Size\, n. [See Sice, and Sise.] Six.

Size

Size\, n. [OIt. sisa glue used by painters, shortened fr. assisa, fr. assidere, p. p. assiso, to make to sit, to seat, to place, L. assidere to sit down; ad + sidere to sit down, akin to sedere to sit. See Sit, v. i., and cf. Assize, Size bulk.]

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

Size\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sized; p. pr. & vb. n. Sizing.] To cover with size; to prepare with size.

Size

Size\, n. [Abbrev. from assize. See Assize, and cf. Size glue.]

1. A settled quantity or allowance. See Assize. [Obs.] "To scant my sizes." --Shak.

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. --L'Estrange.

The middling or lower size of people. --Swift.

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. --Knight.

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.

Syn: Dimension; bigness; largeness; greatness; magnitude.

Size

Size\, v. t. 1. To fix the standard of. "To size weights and measures." [R.] --Bacon.

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. --Beau. & Fl.

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. --The Century.

Size

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. --Donne.

2. (Univ. of Cambridge, Eng.) To order food or drink from the buttery; hence, to enter a score, as upon the buttery book.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Language Translation for : size
Spanish: tamaño, magnitud,
German: die Größe,
Japanese: 大きさ
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size  (n.)
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 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  (v.)
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.).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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size

  1. 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.
  2. 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.

Wall Street Words: An A to Z Guide to Investment Terms by David L. Scott.
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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).

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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