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Definition of 'size'English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) ).
Noun
( en-noun)
(obsolete|outside|dialects) An assize.
* 1749 , Henry Fielding, Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, page 560:
- I know you would have women above the law, but it is all a lye; I heard his lordship say at size , that no one is above the law.
(obsolete) A regulation determining the amount of money paid in fees, taxes etc.
(obsolete) A fixed standard for the magnitude, quality, quantity etc. of goods, especially food and drink.
* Shakespeare
- to scant my sizes
The dimensions or magnitude of a thing; how big something is.
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(obsolete) A regulation, piece of ordinance.
A specific set of dimensions for a manufactured article, especially clothing.
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(graph theory) A number of edges in a graph.
(figurative|dated) Degree of rank, ability, character, etc.
* L'Estrange
- men of a less size and quality
* Jonathan Swift
- the middling or lower size of people
An instrument consisting of a number of perforated gauges fastened together at one end by a rivet, used for measuring the size of pearls.
- (Knight)
Synonyms
* See also
Verb
( siz)
To adjust the size of; to make a certain size.
* Francis Bacon
- a statute to size weights, and measures
To classify or arrange by size.
# (military) To take the height of men, in order to place them in the ranks according to their stature.
# (mining) To sift (pieces of ore or metal) in order to separate the finer from the coarser parts.
(colloquial) To approximate the dimensions, estimate the size of.
To take a greater size; to increase in size.
* John Donne
- Our desires give them fashion, and so, / As they wax lesser, fall, as they size , grow.
(UK|Cambridge University|obsolete) To order food or drink from the buttery; hence, to enter a score, as upon the buttery book.
(obsolete) To swell; to increase the bulk of.
- (Beaumont and Fletcher)
Etymology 2
Old Italian , a glue used by painters, shortened from (assisa), from (assiso), to make to sit, to seat, to place.
Noun
( en-noun)
A thin, weak glue used as primer for paper or canvas intended to be painted upon.
Wallpaper paste.
The thickened crust on coagulated blood.
Any viscous substance, such as gilder's varnish.
Verb
(siz)
To apply glue or other primer to a surface which is to be painted.
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