Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
life-size \life"-size`\, life-sized \life"-sized`\(l[imac]f"s[imac]z`), a. Of full size; of the natural size; of the same size as an original; as, a life-size sculpture; a life-size portrait of the general.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. ''Of any representation, especially pictures, statues:'' The same size as the real thing. alt. ''Of any representation, especially pictures, statues:'' The same size as the real thing.
WordNet
adj. being of the same size as an original; "a life-size sculpture" [syn: lifesize, life-sized, full-size]
Wikipedia
Life-Size is a 2000 fantasy comedy television film directed by Mark Rosman and originally premiered on ABC. It was released to DVD and VHS in the same year. The film is a family comic fantasy starring Lindsay Lohan and Tyra Banks in a tale of a young girl's Eve Doll (somewhat like Barbie) that is transformed into a living Perfect Woman.
The tagline for the film was "She was a perfect doll. Now she's the real thing."
Filmed in 1999, it premiered as part of The Wonderful World of Disney on ABC and made its debut on Disney Channel in 2000.
Life-Size is the debut novel by South African author Jenefer Shute, published in 1992 and is a Literary Guild selection. It is a first person account of Josie, a twenty-five-year-old graduate in Economics, suffering from anorexia who is hospitalized in an attempt to stop her from starving herself to death.
Usage examples of "life-size".
Cheesman, loitering beside a marble column with two life-size angels wrapped wantonly round it, discards his cigarette and grinds it underfoot.
A disembodied mouth, several times larger than life-size smiled oozily at her with exaggerated, lush lips.
Thomas Upfill had, in his dining-room, an excellent life-size portrait of Mr.
They had met him in the huge chamber in which he lived, alone except for his ushabtis, four life-size wax statues of men.
Her gaze sought answers in the heavenward-curving voussoirs of the serried vaults, but then slid down the polished marble columns to the life-size sculptures of saints that formed the dados of the pedestals.
Return to the vegetable existence he had led among the agricultural journals with the life-size mangold wurzels, before this new attraction came into his life--no!
From a ratty film poster a life-size Bollywood star grinned smugly at the rickety iron bed, the mattress stained with subcontinents.
A set of four broad stone steps led up to the recessed space in front of the door, flanked by two life-size carvings.
It was, so people said, the work of an erstwhile veterinary surgeon, and showed a number of life-size horses in a meadow, fantastic horses, blue, violet, and pink, whose astonishing anatomy transpierced their sides.
Forest continue to be felled one by one -- to make matters worse, it would have been a good beechnut year -- Eddi Amsel in his villa on Steffensweg builds the fourth life-size scarecrow: a black mobile twelve-legged dog.
From a ratty film poster a life-size Bollywood star grinned smugly at the rickety iron bed, the mattress stained with subcontinents.
Life-size statues of all the Sun Kings, from Bahlam the first down through Gordon, were set in niches along the corridor, flanked by intricately ornamented obelisks glorifying their reigns.
And a little like the curiously cherished, more than life-size half-hour back there in Newburg, in that ghastly year 2071, when he had briefly met and spoken with an incredibly old man, Abraham Brown.
He turned right after the Tesuque Market, as instructed, and farther up the mountain found the sign, which turned out to be a life-size bronze sculpture of an eagle, its wings spread wide, a writhing rattlesnake gripped in its claws.
These are life-size statues of old-time emperors, electors, and similar grandees, clad in mail and bearing ponderous swords.