size
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- //saɪz//
The dimensions or magnitude of a thing; how big something is.
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The dimensions or magnitude of a thing; how big something is.
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, […].
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A specific set of dimensions for a manufactured article, especially clothing.
I don't think we have the red one in your size.
What size are you? I mean, what size shoes do you take?
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The number of edges in a graph.
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desuetoDegree of rank, ability, character, etc.
men of a less size and quality**
the middle or lower size of people
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An instrument consisting of a number of perforated gauges fastened together at one end by a rivet, used for measuring the size of pearls
Edward H[enry] Knight (1877), “Size”, in Knight’s American Mechanical Dictionary. […], volumes III (REA–ZYM), New York, N.Y.: Hurd and Houghton […], →OCLC..
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obsoletoAn assize.
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.
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obsoletoA regulation, piece of ordinance.
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obsoletoA regulation determining the amount of money paid in fees, taxes etc.
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obsoletoA fixed standard for the magnitude, quality, quantity etc. of goods, especially food and drink.
to scant my sizes
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Variante di chili sizeEllipsis of chili size (“hamburger served with chili con carne”).
Etimologia
Attested since the 14th century, originally meant a “law or regulation that determines the amount to be paid”, from Middle English syse, sise (“regulation, control, limit”), from Old French cise, sise, aphetism of assise (“assize”), from the verb asseoir (“to sit down”), from Latin assidēre, composed of ad- (“to, towards, at”) + sedeō (“sit; settle down”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sed-. Displaced native Old English miċelnes (literally “bigness”).
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To adjust the size of; to make a certain size.
a statute […] to size weights, and measures
I milled all the stock to size, and because it was air-dried, I did it in stages. […] Once the material is sized, it's time to cut the finger joints, which are really the star of the show.
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To classify or arrange by size. To take the height of men, in order to place them in the ranks according to their stature.
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To classify or arrange by size. To sift (pieces of ore or metal) in order to separate the finer from the coarser parts.
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To classify or arrange by size. To separate different proteins by molecular weight.
However, SDS-PAGE consistently sized most of the proteins smaller than the ProteoAnalyzer, resulting in a larger percent difference between the two systems.
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To approximate the dimensions, estimate the size of.
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To take a greater size; to increase in size.
after 1633 (first published), John Donne, Farewell to Love Our desires give them fashion, and so, / As they wax lesser, fall, as they size, grow.
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obsoletoTo order food or drink from the buttery; hence, to enter a score, as upon the buttery book.
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obsoletoTo swell; to increase the bulk of.
2. Queen.[…]lend us a knee; But touch the ground for us no longer time Then a Doves motion, when the head's pluckt off: ell him if he i'th blood cizd field, lay swolne Showing the Sun his Teeth; grinning at the Moone What you would doe.
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A thin, weak glue used as primer for paper or canvas intended to be painted upon.
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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Wallpaper paste.
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The thickened crust on coagulated blood.
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Any viscous substance, such as gilder's varnish.
Etimologia
From Middle English syse, of unclear origin; related to Old Italian sisa (“a glue used by painters”), perhaps ultimately related to size / syse (“amount”), or perhaps shortened from assisa, from assiso (“to make to sit, to seat, to place”)
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To apply glue or other primer to a surface which is to be painted.
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To apply a thickening agent (such as cornstarch or gelatin) to warp threads to prevent abrasion or unraveling during weaving.
After spinning, the singles are either dyed for sale as thread or sized with cornstarch, woven into fabric, and sewn into garments and accessories that are dyed after completion.
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Variante di siceAlternative form of sice (“number six in dice games”).
Forme
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- passato
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- participio passato
- sized
- participio presente
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- 3ª persona singolare
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size · The dimensions or magnitude of a thing; how big something is.
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