size
Definitions
- The dimensions or magnitude of a thing; how big something is.
- A thin, weak glue used as primer for paper or canvas intended to be painted upon.
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- as big or small; equivalent in size; so big/so small; such a big/small
- Sized. Often used in combination: bite-size appetizers; an economy-size package.
- A specific set of dimensions for a manufactured article, especially clothing.
- A specific set of dimensions for a manufactured article, especially clothing
- Wallpaper paste.
- To make an estimate, opinion, or judgment of: She sized up her opponent.
- The number of edges in a graph.
- The number of edges in a graph
- The thickened crust on coagulated blood.
- 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.
- Degree of rank, ability, character, etc.
- Degree of rank, ability, character, etc
- Any viscous substance, such as gilder's varnish.
- To treat or coat with size or a similar substance.
- An instrument consisting of a number of perforated gauges fastened together at one end by a rivet, used for measuring the size of pearls
- of a size, of the same or a similar size.
- Ellipsis of chili size (“hamburger served with chili con carne”).
- Medicine. a disease resulting from abnormal activity of the pituitary gland in which bones of the extremities are enlarged. — acromegalic, adj.
- An assize.
- a person of enormous size, as from Brobdingnag in Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels. Cf. Lilliputian.
- A regulation, piece of ordinance.
- the process of decreasing in size. — decrescent, adj.
- A regulation determining the amount of money paid in fees, taxes etc.
- Medicine. the condition of being dwarfed or a dwarf. Also called nanism.
- A fixed standard for the magnitude, quality, quantity etc. of goods, especially food and drink.
- smallness of size. — exiguous, adj.
Equivalents
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Examples
“The size of the building seemed to have⟳ increased since I was last⟳ there.”
“Ashley: Look⟳ at the size of that ship! Kaidan: The Ascension. Flagship of the Citadel fleet. Joker: Well, size isn't everything. Ashley: Why so touchy, Joker? Joker: I'm just saying you need⟳ firepower, too.”
“[The researchers] noticed many of their pieces of [plastic marine] debris sported surface pits around two microns across. Such pits are about the size of a bacterial cell. Closer examination showed that some of these pits did, indeed, contain⟳ bacteria, […].”
“I don't think⟳ we have⟳ the red one in your size.”
“What size are you? I mean⟳, what size shoes do you take⟳?”
“men of a less size and quality**”
“the middle or lower size of people”
“Edward H[enry] Knight (1877), “Size”, in Knight’s American Mechanical Dictionary. […], volumes III (REA–ZYM), New York, N.Y.: Hurd and Houghton […], →OCLC..”
“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.”
“to scant my sizes”
“The beginning of a new episode of work⟳ for Bradly was an agitated niggling over six-by-four squares of cardboard coated with size and white lead⟳, prepared by himself to save⟳ an experimental waste⟳ of canvas.”
CEFR level
B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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