Meaning of size | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The dimensions or magnitude of a thing; how big something is.
   countable, uncountable
2. A thin, weak glue used as primer for paper or canvas intended to be painted upon.
   countable, uncountable
3. The dimensions or magnitude of a thing; how big something is. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
4. as big or small; equivalent in size; so big/so small; such a big/small
5. Sized. Often used in combination: bite-size appetizers; an economy-size package.
6. A specific set of dimensions for a manufactured article, especially clothing.
   countable, uncountable
7. A specific set of dimensions for a manufactured article, especially clothing
8. Wallpaper paste.
   countable, uncountable
9. To make an estimate, opinion, or judgment of: She sized up her opponent.
10. The number of edges in a graph.
    countable, uncountable
11. The number of edges in a graph
12. The thickened crust on coagulated blood.
    countable, uncountable
13. 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.
14. Degree of rank, ability, character, etc.
    countable, dated, figuratively, uncountable
15. Degree of rank, ability, character, etc
16. Any viscous substance, such as gilder's varnish.
    countable, uncountable
17. To treat or coat with size or a similar substance.
18. An instrument consisting of a number of perforated gauges fastened together at one end by a rivet, used for measuring the size of pearls
19. of a size, of the same or a similar size.
20. Ellipsis of chili size (“hamburger served with chili con carne”).
    US, abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable
21. Medicine. a disease resulting from abnormal activity of the pituitary gland in which bones of the extremities are enlarged. — acromegalic, adj.
22. An assize.
    countable, dialectal, obsolete, uncountable
23. a person of enormous size, as from Brobdingnag in Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels. Cf. Lilliputian.
24. A regulation, piece of ordinance.
    countable, obsolete, uncountable
25. the process of decreasing in size. — decrescent, adj.
26. A regulation determining the amount of money paid in fees, taxes etc.
    countable, obsolete, uncountable
27. Medicine. the condition of being dwarfed or a dwarf. Also called nanism.
28. A fixed standard for the magnitude, quality, quantity etc. of goods, especially food and drink.
    countable, obsolete, uncountable
29. smallness of size. — exiguous, adj.

Equivalents

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.”

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