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Definition of 'size'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) size
the spatial dimensions, proportions, magnitude, or extent of anything:
the size of a farm.

2.  size
considerable or great magnitude:
size versus quality.

3.  size
one of a series of graduated measures for articles of manufacture or trade:
shoe sizes.

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

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

6.  size
a number of population or contents:
What size is the city?

7.  size
Obs. a fixed portion, as for food.

8. (v.t.) size
to separate or sort according to size.

9.  size
to make of a certain size.

10.  size
size up,

11.  size
to form an estimate of; judge.

12. (n.) size
any of various gelatinous or glutinous preparations made from glue, starch, etc., used for filling the pores of cloth, paper, or other material.

13. (v.t.) size
to coat or treat with size.

Etymology: (1400–50; late ME sise, syse (n.), of obscure orig.)

Definition of 'size'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) size
the physical magnitude of something (how big it is)
"a wolf is about the size of a large dog"

2. (noun) size
the property resulting from being one of a series of graduated measurements (as of clothing)
"he wears a size 13 shoe"

3. (noun) size, sizing
any glutinous material used to fill pores in surfaces or to stiffen fabrics
"size gives body to a fabric"

4. (noun) size, size of it
the actual state of affairs
"that's the size of the situation"; "she hates me, that's about the size of it"

5. (adj) size
a large magnitude
"he blanched when he saw the size of the bill"; "the only city of any size in that area"

6. (verb) size
(used in combination) sized
"the economy-size package"; "average-size house"

7. (verb) size
cover or stiffen or glaze a porous material with size or sizing (a glutinous substance)

8. (verb) size
sort according to size

9. (verb) size
make to a size; bring to a suitable size

Definition of 'size'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (noun) size
how big or small sth is
Roses can be many different colors and sizes.; the size of the company's workforce

2. size
one of the standard measurements used in clothes and shoes
What size do you wear?; Do you have these shoes in a size ten?

3. size
the fact of being large
Look at the size of that watermelon!

4. (verb) size
to study a situation or person carefully and form an opinion
I could see she was sizing me up.

Definition of 'size'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) size
six

2. (noun) size
a settled quantity or allowance. See Assize

3. (noun) size
an allowance of food and drink from the buttery, aside from the regular dinner at commons; -- corresponding to battel at Oxford

4. (noun) size
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

5. (noun) size
figurative bulk; condition as to rank, ability, character, etc.; as, the office demands a man of larger size

6. (noun) size
a conventional relative measure of dimension, as for shoes, gloves, and other articles made up for sale

7. (noun) size
an instrument consisting of a number of perforated gauges fastened together at one end by a rivet, -- used for ascertaining the size of pearls

8. (verb) size
a thin, weak glue used in various trades, as in painting, bookbinding, paper making, etc

9. (verb) size
any viscous substance, as gilder's varnish

10. (verb) size
to cover with size; to prepare with size

11. (verb) size
to fix the standard of

12. (verb) size
to adjust or arrange according to size or bulk

13. (verb) size
to take the height of men, in order to place them in the ranks according to their stature

14. (verb) size
to sift, as pieces of ore or metal, in order to separate the finer from the coarser parts

15. (verb) size
to swell; to increase the bulk of

16. (verb) size
to bring or adjust anything exactly to a required dimension, as by cutting

17. (verb) size
to take greater size; to increase in size

18. (verb) size
to order food or drink from the buttery; hence, to enter a score, as upon the buttery book

Translation of 'size'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: largeness an area the size of a football pitch; The size of the problem alarmed us.
Afrikaans: grootte	Arabic: حَجْم، مَساحَه	Bulgarian: големина
Brazilian: tamanho	Czech: velikost	German: die Größe
Danish: størrelse	Greek: μέγεθος	Spanish: tamaño, magnitud
Estonian: suurus, mõõtmed	Farsi: اندازه	Finnish: koko
French: taille, dimension(s)	Hebrew: גוֹדֶל	Hindi: आकार
Croatian: veličina, obujam	Hungarian: nagyság, méret	Indonesian: ukuran
Icelandic: stærð	Italian: dimensioni	Japanese: 大きさ
Korean: 크기	Lithuanian: dydis, mastas	Latvian: lielums; apjoms
Malay: ukuran	Dutch: gtootte	Norwegian: størrelse
Polish: wielkość	Persian: اندازه	Pashto: اندازه، ميچ، ګچه: جسامت،
Portuguese: tamanho	Romanian: talie; măsură	Russian: размер
Slovak: veľkosť	Slovenian: velikost	Serbian: veličina
Swedish: storlek	Thai: ขนาดใหญ่	Turkish: büyüklük, hacim
Taiwanese: 大小	Ukrainian: об'єм, обсяг	Urdu: حجم
Vietnamese: quy mô, kích cỡ	Chinese: 大小
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