Meaning of size in English

Table of contents
  1. Pronunciation
  2. Verb
    1. Definitions
  3. Classifying Adjective
    1. Definitions
  4. Noun
    1. Etymology
    2. Definitions

  1. Pronunciation

    /saɪz/

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  1. Verb

    size

    Definitions

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

    Derived terms

  2. 2. sort according to size
  3. 3. make to a size

    Examples

    • « bring to a suitable size »

  4. Classifying Adjective

    size

    Definitions

    1. (used in combination) sized

    Examples

    • « the economy-size package »
    • « average-size house »

    Synonyms

  5. Noun

    size

    Etymology

    Middle English (also in the sense ‘assize, ordinance fixing a rate of payment’): from Old French sise, from assise‘ordinance’, or a shortening of assize

    Definitions

    1. the physical magnitude of something (how big it is)

    Examples

    • « a wolf is about the size of a large dog »
  6. 2. the property resulting from being one of a series of graduated measurements (as of clothing)

    Examples

    • « he wears a size 13 shoe »
  7. 3. any glutinous material used to fill pores in surfaces or to stiffen fabrics

    Examples

    • « size gives body to a fabric »
  8. 4. the actual state of affairs

    Examples

    • « that's the size of the situation »
    • « she hates me, that's about the size of it »
  9. 5. a large magnitude

    Examples

    • « he blanched when he saw the size of the bill »
    • « the only city of any size in that area »

Famous quotes

  • « If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size? »
    Sydney J. Harris
  • « Someone has to stay on the line and say, no, we can do this by cutting spending and reducing the size of government. That's what I was committed to doing. »
    Chris Christie
  • « There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less. »
    Bertrand Russell
  • « In a clean break from the Obama years, and frankly from the years before this president, we will keep federal spending at 20 percent of GDP, or less. That is enough. The choice is whether to put hard limits on economic growth, or hard limits on the size of government, and we choose to limit government. »
    Paul Ryan
  • « My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub. »
    Grover Norquist

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