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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
size
I.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be equal in size/length/height etc
▪ The population of each town is roughly equal in size.
be of equal size/length/height etc
▪ Draw two lines of equal length.
be unequal in size/weight etc
▪ The pieces were unequal in length.
body size/shape
▪ differences in body size and shape
comparable in size
▪ The planet Pluto is comparable in size to the Moon.
comparable size
▪ A car of comparable size would cost far more abroad.
cut sth to size/length (=so that it is the size/length you need)
▪ The place where I bought the wood cut it to size for me.
double in size/number/value etc
▪ Within two years the company had doubled in size.
double the amount/number/size etc
▪ We’ll need double this amount for eight people.
double the size/number/amount etc (of sth)
▪ A promise was given to double the number of police on duty.
every shape and size
▪ The plants grow in every shape and size.
exaggerate the size (of sth)
▪ I’m sure Tommy is exaggerating the size of the problem.
half the price/size/length etc
▪ It’s only half the size of a normal violin.
▪ They offered to pay half the cost of repairs.
next size up (=a slightly bigger size)
▪ Do they have the next size up?
of like size
▪ Try to buy two fish of like size.
of unequal size/length etc
▪ two rooms of unequal size
range in age/size/price etc
▪ The shoes range in price from $25 to $100.
size zero
▪ These clothes only look good on size zeroes.
the exact size
▪ First, cut a piece of wood about 1cm x 10cm – the exact size doesn’t matter.
tripled in size
▪ The company has tripled in size.
twice the size/number/rate/amount etc
▪ an area twice the size of Britain
variable in size/shape/colour etc
▪ These fish are highly variable in color and pattern.
varying sizes
▪ a set of jars of varying sizes
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
average
▪ From the combined results Thomas's group estimated an average particle size of 100 for the copper metal aggregates.
▪ Those responding to the survey reported average class sizes ranging from 36 to special, one-on- one instruction.
▪ They had shown that the greater the number killed, the bigger the average litter size would become.
▪ The calorie counts are given after each item, and all the portions are average size unless exact measurements are stated.
▪ This corresponds to the fineness of face powder or an average particle size of about $ 0 microns.
▪ The main effect of these changes was to create a number of new authorities and thus reduce their average size.
▪ So how do we account for the dramatic increase in the average size of the remand population over the same period?
different
▪ Moreover, lectures can be used for groups of different sizes - an advantage in practical timetabling.
▪ Compare the cost in your market area of the different sizes of eggs available.
▪ In Imperial Rome alone, there are estimated to have been over 800 thermae of different sizes and accommodation.
▪ Further, there are important differences in the appearance of craters of different sizes.
▪ The teacher in Example 3 provided a box of dolls' clothes of different sizes and designs.
▪ I had to alternate between different sizes to get the degree of control I wanted.
▪ Because they were of different sizes, people considered the group a family.
▪ At least three different sizes of glass blocks were being manufactured.
equal
▪ These two greenfield sites were each equal in size to the whole village of 1967.
▪ Some species create carbon dioxide at a faster rate than others of equal size.
▪ Many churches had four simple gables of equal size one on each face, surmounted by a central dome upon a drum.
▪ Usually if two gray angels of nearly equal size are placed together a fight to the death ensues.
▪ Em in printing terms it is a square unit with edges equal in size to the chosen point size.
▪ A child is presented with two containers of equal size and shape, as in Figure 4. 5.
▪ Slice the orange across to form round slices of equal size.
▪ Granulites are like their textural equivalents, granular igneous rocks, in being mosaics of interlocking crystals of roughly equal size.
full
▪ On the emergence of the adult the wing is inflated to its full size by blood-pressure and the cuticle hardens.
▪ They do not drop off when they reach full size.
▪ The component layout and full size copper foil master pattern is shown in Fig 5.
▪ This was approximately one fifth full size, but was a working mock-up rather than a true scale model.
▪ Complete circuit diagram for the Quick Prom interface Fig. 4. printed circuit board component layout and full size copper foil master pattern.
▪ Using at least two full sizes tighter than main tension, knit the number of rows given in pattern for rib.
▪ Nicola dropped her arms and the shirt cuffs fell over her knuckles; it was a full size too big.
▪ The Safety Centre features full size mock-ups of nearly every danger a child could face including house fires and high speed trains.
large
▪ Also an enlargement of the pituitary gland is clearly correlated with large size, almost as if some kind of hormonal imbalance occurred.
▪ The warehouse store may be as large in size and have as many departments as the conventional supermarket.
▪ In general, consecutive spill should be considered for low packing densities and/or very large bucket sizes.
▪ Home is a cardboard box a little larger than the size of a coffin.
▪ Fewer rivets were needed because rolled iron sheets could be made in larger sizes.
▪ There are five major rationales for a federation: 1. Large size.
▪ The strongest currents should define the largest stable particle size.
▪ They come in small, medium and large sizes and usually cost from £25 to £75.
medium
▪ Many large and medium size companies, government departments and Local authorities are putting Dataease to use somewhere within their organisations.
▪ It's of medium size with accommodation for just over 200 people.
▪ The Directors' Workshop - a three-day business review workshop for directors of medium size companies run in conjunction with the Institute of Directors.
▪ There are people who consider this arrangement as being the most perfect construction yet devised for ships of medium size.
▪ The Centre for Business Enterprise A centre for the study of high growth medium size companies.
▪ They come in small, medium and large sizes and usually cost from £25 to £75.
▪ There are medium size consultancies, many of which specialise in consumer, industrial or financial clients.
▪ A second range of machines - TechnICL - will be pitched at small to medium size businesses wanting to set up LANs.
relative
▪ The trend is further underlined by the relative size of the companies acquired.
▪ In particular, we will relate the share of intraindustry trade to cross-country differences in relative factor endowments and relative country size.
▪ Large relative antler size in deer is associated with strongly polygynous breeding systems.
▪ The coordination number can be estimated from the relative sizes of the ions.
▪ To give you some idea of its relative size, Stoddard Templeton trades with approximately 3,000 outlets.
▪ A cut-away view would show the relative size of the larger plants and indicate where they grew in relation to the banks.
▪ This indicates that there is something that distinguishes monkey from mouse brains other than the relative sizes of the two species.
sheer
▪ The last cushion the big studios can rely on is sheer size.
▪ The problem was their sheer size.
▪ I grow bored with the sheer size of the glass and have to force myself to continue, he wrote.
▪ The sheer size of the sanctuary represented Mount Meru, the mythical Olympus on which the gods were believed to live.
▪ One of the difficulties is the sheer size of the family.
▪ The sheer size of the pancakes is truly astounding.
▪ He was slightly taken aback by the sheer size of the girl.
▪ You practically needed a stepladder to get their autographs, and their sheer size and strength was intimidating and overwhelming.
similar
▪ Further contract wins of a similar size are also being pitched for, said Mr Tompkins.
▪ Another of similar size has much shorter antennae.
▪ If, on the other hand, the two sheep are of similar size they can assess each other only by fighting.
▪ Efficient regolith accumulation is therefore not possible on asteroids similar in size to Phobos and Deimos.
▪ It is a peaceful community fish when kept with other species of similar size and behaviour.
▪ Experts also say the clearance rates are most useful when comparing communities that are similar in size and income level.
▪ The atoms of the two metals have similar sizes and carry the same electrical charge.
▪ Other large trees, of similar size to those standing, had fallen and were now slowly decaying back into the ground.
small
▪ They were all fortified some time after the late third century and are characterized by their broadly rectangular shape and small size.
▪ Achieving efficient liberation of the smallest grains requires crushing them to a very small particle size.
▪ It causes many complications, including small placenta size, stillbirth and low birthweight.
▪ Furthermore the smaller particle size would reduce the collisions with the heater banks and reduce the slagging.
▪ Halogen lamps' small size makes them ideal for integrating into sculptural uplights or slim wall fittings.
▪ Its small size and subtropical climate made me feel like I was trapped in a steam room.
▪ It comes in various sizes of large sheets as well as the small sizes available in hardware shops.
▪ The lodgings for the remaining nights are all chateaux of a smaller size.
various
▪ It comes in various sizes of large sheets as well as the small sizes available in hardware shops.
▪ Several years ago there was a fine armadillo whose body consisted of automobile tires of various sizes.
▪ They were of various sizes and worked in the vehicle, aerospace, mechanical engineering and electronics industries.
▪ There are numerous cultivars in various sizes and shapes to choose from.
▪ These can be clamped together in groups of various sizes, depending on the layout of the venue.
▪ Option 3, Set Screen Size, adjusts the program for various monitor sizes.
▪ On to one of the trays the children put beads of various sizes, wheels, cotton reels and rods.
▪ It should be reinforced and decorated with rocks of various sizes.
■ NOUN
body
▪ This species has small testes for its body size, even though the literature records that females associate with several males.
▪ Almost all of us can improve our body size and shape with a good fitness program, but only to a point.
▪ Their brains are larger in absolute terms than those of chimps but relative to body size, they are considerably smaller.
▪ This applies particularly to traits, such as body size, which are themselves related to age.
▪ Goals for body size may need minor re-adjustment too.
▪ Therefore, increased fasting volumes in patients with acromegaly might be explained by their large body size.
▪ By implication it denies racial differences in facial structure, body size and a number of metabolic predispositions.
▪ So it seems that evolution has led to increasing intelligence simply because it has led to increasing body size.
class
▪ The conference also approved resolutions to cut class sizes and protect teachers from undue stress.
▪ Consequently, we propose to lower class sizes to 25 in the first three grades.
▪ Given the class size of more than 60 it's hardly surprising that the teaching methods have to be quite traditional.
▪ Like tuition, teacher credentials and class size vary widely at private schools.
▪ However, Nuttall has shown that this creates considerable problems for the interpretation of results in relation to, for example, class size.
▪ Those responding to the survey reported average class sizes ranging from 36 to special, one-on- one instruction.
▪ They normally have small class sizes and individual support by tutors.
▪ On education, Labor is pledged to raising standards while cutting class sizes for 5, 6 and 7 year olds.
family
▪ The decline in the general fertility rate was matched by a reduction in family size.
▪ It has a lot to do with not making a necessity of limiting family size.
▪ Dual graduate couples have the highest fertility of all, if family size up to four children only is considered.
▪ The good news is that in many countries the definition of what constitutes ideal family size is already evolving downward.
▪ The decline of infant mortality makes it easier to accept the idea of smaller family size.
▪ Education also increases equality in the marriage relationship, giving women more control over decisions concerning family size.
▪ Manual workers' expectations of family size had fallen, managerial workers' expectations had risen since 1945.
▪ To preserve expected standards as far as possible, marriage will be delayed and family size kept small.
population
▪ Moreover, population size changes and thus the errors are not constant.
▪ When the population size reaches a peak, few organisms succeed in reproducing.
▪ In this way a greater insight into the ways in which population size and structure change may be gained.
▪ Trade-based classifications Though clearly important, income and population size are not the only important characteristics of countries.
▪ The disparity in population size is not quite so extreme.
▪ Such costs increase as the population size increases.
▪ Historical experiences and cultural assumptions differ and there are great variations in wealth, population size and ideology.
▪ A further question relates to possible movements in population size.
■ VERB
cut
▪ When the time came, he would cut him down to size.
▪ These are sold in very thin sheets that can be cut to the desired size, filled, sealed and boiled.
▪ The conference also approved resolutions to cut class sizes and protect teachers from undue stress.
▪ It was now to be cut down to approximate size.
▪ The board is then cut to size and screwed on to the battens.
▪ To cut you down to size.
▪ For example, competition could cut the size of phone bills and end the imposition of unreasonable bank charges on small businesses.
▪ How can Republicans be angry because Clinton has cut the size of government?
depend
▪ These rules are fairly complex and depend on the size of the estate.
▪ The direction of the change in quantity depends upon the relative sizes of the changes in supply and demand.
▪ The real length of time will depend on the size and ripeness of the fruit.
▪ The effect upon equilibrium quantity is again indeterminate, depending upon the relative size of the changes in supply and demand.
▪ The display can be further extended by incorporating 2 large photo panels: again this depends on the size of the venue.
▪ Military power depends upon absolute size.
▪ It is assumed that these are linked not to profit maximisation, but depend on the size of the enterprise.
▪ Advancement opportunities for construction managers vary depending upon the size and type of company for which one works.
double
▪ Enterprise also plan to expand their estate by acquiring more pubs, aiming to double in size by 1996.
▪ Mutual fund assets more than doubled in size between 1991 and 1993.
▪ It covers the years of acquisition from 1986 to 1989 and almost doubles the size of the collection.
▪ Cover and let rise about 1 hour or until nearly doubled in size.
▪ It was the custom then to double the size of most infantry battalions and of many gunner and other units.
▪ Cover and allow to rise until the dough has doubled in size or is cresting over the bread pans.
▪ The New York gallery will be expanded to almost double its present size, to19,000 square feet.
▪ Cover and proof until doubled in size, about 45 minutes to 1 1 / 2 hours.
grow
▪ The parallel markets have grown in size and importance in recent years.
▪ Prestige passed increasingly to the financial agencies, which grew in size and importance, overshadowing the judiciary.
▪ My hands would grow to twice their size and my head would shrink.
▪ Then, little by little, step by step, their dreams grow with the size of their business.
▪ Suggest several reasons why first this town and then the whole conurbation have grown in size?
▪ Soon after Cat Cinderella has planted and tended the tree with great care, it grows to the size of a woman.
▪ By comparison, the woodland areas of industrial countries appear to be growing slightly in size.
▪ The million-dollar structure will grow to about the size of a tennis court within five minutes.
increase
▪ Knit three to four rows on ribber bed only, increasing stitch size by two dots on each row.
▪ His election increases the size of the board to 11.
▪ Pilaster strip decoration is usual and small windows, increasing in size towards the top.
▪ Their approval increased the size of the Rocking K Specific Plan via one fast-tracked amendment for utility easements.
▪ It is not generally realized how rapidly the number of project manager-team relationships increase with the size of the team.
▪ Increase net sales 4. Increase customer list size 5.
▪ His grandfather enjoyed a gamble - the trick all along was to keep on increasing the size of the farm.
▪ Several years ago a director of one of our divisions wanted to increase the size of the printing order.
limit
▪ It will not be as limited by the size and shape of the magazine as the advertorial.
▪ In this respect, they will be similar to Worthington Industries, which limits the size of its plants to 250 employees.
▪ Such a design also strictly limits the size of ganglia and brains.
▪ However we do not want to limit the size of the calculations that our device will perform in principle.
▪ The impact of the book, however, was severely limited by its size.
▪ It has a lot to do with not making a necessity of limiting family size.
▪ Women there have abortions again and again because it is the only way they can limit their family size.
▪ Rhyolite, with its limited size and 22, 300-mile distance above the test range, was slim competition.
reduce
▪ Indeed, in an estate site plan, the reduced plot size can improve densities.
▪ Strategies for reducing school size at the secondary level are simple and easily undertaken.
▪ The main principle applied is prevention of radiation escape from the source, which greatly reduces the size of the equipment.
▪ A good programmer can take anything known, any regularity, and cleverly reduce it in size.
▪ The bicameral Congress was reduced overall in size.
▪ Only when the poor feel safe will they reduce the size of families.
▪ One warning signal: More and more stock deals are being reduced in size.
vary
▪ Other parts are composed of several muscles that vary in size.
▪ Hernias vary in size from a golf ball to a football and can strike at any age.
▪ Advancement opportunities for construction managers vary depending upon the size and type of company for which one works.
▪ Chiefdoms vary greatly in size, but the range is generally between about 5000 and 20,000 persons.
▪ They vary in size from 4 to 8 ounces, with most running around 5 ounces.
▪ The zones varied significantly in size and composition.
▪ They can be of varying sizes.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a fair size/amount/number/bit/distance etc
▪ But a fair number of them went on to greater things.
▪ It prefers a fair amount of nutritious detritus.
▪ Scientists must proceed cautiously, moving ahead only with the assent of a fair number of their colleagues.
▪ Thanks to the inherently leaky nature of the water industry, there is already a fair amount of information to go on.
▪ That involved a fair amount of travel.
▪ There was a fair amount going on.
▪ They'd have a fair bit of tidying up to do before they left.
▪ You may also be involved in a fair amount of travel.
cut sb down to size
▪ The team wants to cut UCLA down to size.
▪ History thus cuts man down to size by reminding him of his origins: its characteristic insight is hindsight.
▪ Josh would soon cut Hank down to size.
▪ To cut you down to size.
▪ When the time came, he would cut him down to size.
economy size/pack
family size/pack etc
▪ A more sensitive indicator of fertility behaviour is the average completed family size of women born in the same year.
▪ Education also increases equality in the marriage relationship, giving women more control over decisions concerning family size.
▪ It has a lot to do with not making a necessity of limiting family size.
▪ The decline in the general fertility rate was matched by a reduction in family size.
▪ The good news is that in many countries the definition of what constitutes ideal family size is already evolving downward.
▪ The most immediately striking point is family size.
▪ To preserve expected standards as far as possible, marriage will be delayed and family size kept small.
▪ Women there have abortions again and again because it is the only way they can limit their family size.
stock item/size
▪ He then needs to estimate the desired shelf stock size for each category on the basis of this record of use.
▪ So we need to look for books that become standard stock items in schools.
▪ Twenty five percent off stock items and 15 percent off ordered furniture.
▪ Where this is impracticable, groups or categories of stock items which are similar will need to be taken together.
the sheer weight/size etc
▪ Ari was exhausted by the sheer weight of first impressions of the city.
▪ First, there was the sheer size of his positions.
▪ He forced though - even if going back: the sheer weight of his blows - Anton down on his hands and knees.
▪ He was slightly taken aback by the sheer size of the girl.
▪ I grow bored with the sheer size of the glass and have to force myself to continue, he wrote.
▪ One of the difficulties is the sheer size of the family.
▪ The intensity of the introductions made me tremble, overtaken by the sheer weight of their status.
▪ Then there's the sheer size of the damn thing.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Cover the dough and allow it to rise until it has doubled in size.
▪ Fire has destroyed an area of forest the size of Luxembourg.
▪ He was incredibly aggressive - it was only his size that stopped me from hitting him.
▪ I hadn't realized the size of the problem until now.
▪ Jensens' house is about the same size as ours.
▪ Look at the size of that house!
▪ The American states vary enormously in size, from very large to very small.
▪ The black spots on her skin seemed to be slowly increasing in size.
▪ The price will depend on the size and quality of the carpet.
▪ The seeds are very small, about half the size of a grain of salt.
▪ The sheer size of the building was amazing.
▪ There are restrictions on the size and weight of packages we can ship.
▪ There were several pieces of wood of different sizes.
▪ They shouldn't keep a dog of that size in such a small apartment.
▪ What size is that shirt?
▪ What size shoes does Kelly wear?
▪ Your desk is exactly the same size as mine.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Bodacious and Bonemeal chewed rawhide strips the size of ceiling molding.
▪ He smoothed the bills out, lined the coins up on top of his thigh, in size order.
▪ However, it is possible to produce lexicons of comparable size that relate words to a much smaller number of roots.
▪ It was three times the size of the Jamestown colony that was founded in 1607.
▪ Many above ground filters make outrageous claims about the size of pond they can treat.
▪ The bureaucratic style can be very efficient in a stable environment and when the organisation is of a large size.
▪ The general thinking was it would be about half the size of what it announced, about 20, 000.
▪ The use of rollers of varying size, colour and shape might be spontaneously sorted into trays provided.
II.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
up
▪ His stillness was that of an animal sizing up its prey, waiting for the perfect moment to make its move.
▪ Their faces appeared intense, their eyes moving constantly as if to size up their surroundings.
▪ Swindon Town are being sized up for their play off final.
▪ Now the beggar was walking this way, sizing up people as he came.
▪ Henry went up to the landing and sized up the lavatory.
▪ Joe sized up Louis Johnson in May, when the secretary invited him to a long one-on-one dinner.
▪ He laid everything on it and stood back to look, like some one in an art gallery sizing up a surrealist exhibit.
▪ Everything sized up, homogenized and evaluated before you even see it.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a fair size/amount/number/bit/distance etc
▪ But a fair number of them went on to greater things.
▪ It prefers a fair amount of nutritious detritus.
▪ Scientists must proceed cautiously, moving ahead only with the assent of a fair number of their colleagues.
▪ Thanks to the inherently leaky nature of the water industry, there is already a fair amount of information to go on.
▪ That involved a fair amount of travel.
▪ There was a fair amount going on.
▪ They'd have a fair bit of tidying up to do before they left.
▪ You may also be involved in a fair amount of travel.
economy size/pack
family size/pack etc
▪ A more sensitive indicator of fertility behaviour is the average completed family size of women born in the same year.
▪ Education also increases equality in the marriage relationship, giving women more control over decisions concerning family size.
▪ It has a lot to do with not making a necessity of limiting family size.
▪ The decline in the general fertility rate was matched by a reduction in family size.
▪ The good news is that in many countries the definition of what constitutes ideal family size is already evolving downward.
▪ The most immediately striking point is family size.
▪ To preserve expected standards as far as possible, marriage will be delayed and family size kept small.
▪ Women there have abortions again and again because it is the only way they can limit their family size.
stock item/size
▪ He then needs to estimate the desired shelf stock size for each category on the basis of this record of use.
▪ So we need to look for books that become standard stock items in schools.
▪ Twenty five percent off stock items and 15 percent off ordered furniture.
▪ Where this is impracticable, groups or categories of stock items which are similar will need to be taken together.
the sheer weight/size etc
▪ Ari was exhausted by the sheer weight of first impressions of the city.
▪ First, there was the sheer size of his positions.
▪ He forced though - even if going back: the sheer weight of his blows - Anton down on his hands and knees.
▪ He was slightly taken aback by the sheer size of the girl.
▪ I grow bored with the sheer size of the glass and have to force myself to continue, he wrote.
▪ One of the difficulties is the sheer size of the family.
▪ The intensity of the introductions made me tremble, overtaken by the sheer weight of their status.
▪ Then there's the sheer size of the damn thing.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Shrimp are sized for canning into large, medium and small.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ For watercolourists, it is critical to find a paper that is perfectly sized, so washes simply shimmer on the surface.
▪ He had sized me up, he later explained, and had decided to take me under his wing.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
size

Assize \As*size"\, n. [OE. assise, asise, OF. assise, F. assises, assembly of judges, the decree pronounced by them, tax, impost, fr. assis, assise, p. p. of asseoir, fr. L. assid?re to sit by; ad + sed[=e]re to sit. See Sit, Size, and cf. Excise, Assess.]

  1. An assembly of knights and other substantial men, with a bailiff or justice, in a certain place and at a certain time, for public business. [Obs.]

  2. (Law)

    1. A special kind of jury or inquest.

    2. A kind of writ or real action.

    3. A verdict or finding of a jury upon such writ.

    4. A statute or ordinance in general. Specifically: (1) A statute regulating the weight, measure, and proportions of ingredients and the price of articles sold in the market; as, the assize of bread and other provisions; (2) A statute fixing the standard of weights and measures.

    5. Anything fixed or reduced to a certainty in point of time, number, quantity, quality, weight, measure, etc.; as, rent of assize.
      --Glanvill.
      --Spelman.
      --Cowell.
      --Blackstone.
      --Tomlins.
      --Burrill.

      Note: [This term is not now used in England in the sense of a writ or real action, and seldom of a jury of any kind, but in Scotch practice it is still technically applied to the jury in criminal cases.
      --Stephen.
      --Burrill.
      --Erskine.]

    6. A court, the sitting or session of a court, for the trial of processes, whether civil or criminal, by a judge and jury.
      --Blackstone.
      --Wharton.
      --Encyc. Brit.

    7. The periodical sessions of the judges of the superior courts in every county of England for the purpose of administering justice in the trial and determination of civil and criminal cases; -- usually in the plural.
      --Brande.
      --Wharton.
      --Craig.
      --Burrill.

    8. The time or place of holding the court of assize; -- generally in the plural, assizes.

  3. Measure; dimension; size. [In this sense now corrupted into size.]

    An hundred cubits high by just assize.
    --Spenser.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
size

c.1300, "an ordinance to fix the amount of a payment or tax," from Old French sise, shortened form of assise "session, assessment, regulation, manner" (see assize), probably a misdivision of l'assise as la sise. The sense of "extent, amount, volume, magnitude" (c.1300) is from the notion of regulating something by fixing the amount of it (weights, food portions, etc.). Specific sense of "set of dimensions of a manufactured article for sale" is attested from 1590s.

size

c.1400, "to regulate," from size (n.). Meaning "to make of a certain size" is from c.1600; that of "to classify according to size" is first attested 1630s. Verbal phrase size up "estimate, assess" is from 1847 and retains the root sense of size (n.). Related: Sized; sizing.

Wiktionary
size

Etymology 1 n. 1 (context obsolete outside dialects English) An assize. (from 14th c.) 2 (context obsolete English) A regulation determining the amount of money paid in fees, taxes etc. (14th-18th c.) 3 (context obsolete English) A fixed standard for the magnitude, quality, quantity etc. of goods, especially food and drink. (15th-17th c.) 4 The dimensions or magnitude of a thing; how big something is. (from 15th c.) vb. 1 (context transitive English) To adjust the size of; to make a certain size. 2 (context transitive English) To classify or arrange by size. 3 # (context military English) To take the height of men, in order to place them in the ranks according to their stature. 4 # (context mining English) To sift (pieces of ore or metal) in order to separate the finer from the coarser parts. 5 (context transitive colloquial English) To approximate the dimensions, estimate the size of. 6 (context intransitive English) To take a greater size; to increase in size. 7 (context UK Cambridge University obsolete English) To order food or drink from the buttery; hence, to enter a score, as upon the buttery book. 8 (context transitive obsolete English) To swell; to increase the bulk of. Etymology 2

n. 1 A thin, weak glue used as primer for paper or canvas intended to be painted upon. 2 Wallpaper paste. 3 The thickened crust on coagulated blood. 4 Any viscous substance, such as gilder's varnish. vb. (context transitive English) To apply glue or other primer to a surface which is to be painted.

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WordNet
size

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

  2. sort according to size

  3. make to a size; bring to a suitable size

size

  1. n. the physical magnitude of something (how big it is); "a wolf is about the size of a large dog"

  2. the property resulting from being one of a series of graduated measurements (as of clothing); "he wears a size 13 shoe"

  3. any glutinous material used to fill pores in surfaces or to stiffen fabrics; "size gives body to a fabric" [syn: sizing]

  4. the actual state of affairs; "that's the size of the situation"; "she hates me, that's about the size of it" [syn: size of it]

  5. a large magnitude; "he blanched when he saw the size of the bill"; "the only city of any size in that area"

size

adj. (used in combination) sized; "the economy-size package"; "average-size house"

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Wikipedia
Size (surname)

Size is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  • John Size, Australian horse trainer working in Hong Kong
  • Nicholas Size (1866–1953), English writer
  • Roni Size (born 1969), British record producer and DJ
Size (disambiguation)

Size is the concept of something being big or small. It may also refer to:

  • In statistics ( hypothesis testing), the size of the test refers to the rate of false positives, denoted by α
  • File size, in computing
  • Magnitude (mathematics), magnitude or size of a mathematical object
  • Magnitude of brightness or intensity of a star or an earthquake as measured on a logarithmic scale
  • In mathematics there are, in addition to the dimensions mentioned above (equal if there is an isometry), various other concepts of size for sets:
    • measure (mathematics), a systematic way to assign to each suitable subset a number
    • cardinality (equal if there is a bijection), of a set is a measure of the "number of elements of the set"
    • for well-ordered sets: ordinal number (equal if there is an order-isomorphism)
  • Resizing (fiction), a theme in fiction, in particular in fairy tales, fantasy, and science fiction
Other
  • Sizing, or size, a filler or glaze
  • size (Unix), a command-line Unix tool
  • Size (record label)
  • Size (surname)
Size (statistics)

In statistics, the size of a test is the probability of falsely rejecting the null hypothesis. That is, it is the probability of making a Type I error. It is denoted by the Greek letter α (alpha). For a simple hypothesis,


α = P(test rejects H∣H). 

In the case of a composite null hypothesis, the size is the supremum over all data generating processes that satisfiy the null hypotheses.


α = supP(test rejects H∣h). 

A test is said to have significance level α if its size is less than or equal to α. In many cases the size and level of a test are equal.

Size

Size is the magnitude or dimensions of a thing, or how big something is. Size can be measured as length, width, height, diameter, perimeter, area, volume, or mass.

In mathematical terms, "size is a concept abstracted from the process of measuring by comparing a longer to a shorter". Size is determined by the process of comparing or measuring objects, which results in the determination of the magnitude of a quantity, such as length or mass, relative to a unit of measurement. Such a magnitude is usually expressed as a numerical value of units on a previously established spatial scale, such as meters or inches.

The sizes with which humans tend to be most familiar are body dimensions (measures of anthropometry), which include measures such as human height, and human body weight. These measures can, in the aggregate, allow the generation of commercially useful distributions of products that accommodate expected body sizes, as with the creation of clothing sizes and shoe sizes, and with the standardization of door frame dimensions, ceiling heights, and bed sizes. The human experience of size can lead to a psychological tendency towards size bias, wherein the relative importance or perceived complexity of organisms and other objects is judged based on their size relative to humans, and particularly whether this size makes them easy to observe without aid.

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Usage examples of "size".

In response to his gesture, eyes now fully formed and ablaze, the two clouds of sooty vapor that had been hovering impatiently by his steel-booted feet ballooned to the size of black buffalo as they sped gleefully away from the dais to intercept the impudent, foolhardy human.

There were eight runners that day, a pleasant sized field, and Abseil was second favourite.

Men and women bright enough to run a particle accelerator the size of a small planet likewise had to be at least somewhat aware that they were being manipulated, even as they let it happen.

The size or bore of the adjutage was strictly regulated by law, and under the authority of the aediles.

The only difference between the schools is in the remedies employed, the size of dose administered, and the results attained.

Regardless of the size of the advertiser, the principles remain the same.

Any size business can take advantage of local transit advertising opportunities within its marketplace.

The flow from tens of millions of toilets coursed through settling and aerating paddies the size of large farms.

Well, I gets near the Major at table, and afore me stood a china utensil with two handles, full of soup, about the size of a foot-tub, with a large silver scoop in it, near about as big as a ladle of a maple sugar kettle.

Vaughn loaded the UHF satellite message buoy, roughly the size of a baseball bat, into the aft signal ejector, a small mechanism much like a torpedo tube set into the upper level of the aft compartment.

The scale of such vistas so great that their sense of themselves, the plain humanness aggrandizing every puny ego, lost its turgor, its shape, a goodly portion of its size.

But the third great transformation, and the most important, after agriculture, Goudsblom said, was industrialisation, the union of fire with water, to produce in the first instance steam, harnessing a new form of energy which enabled machines of unprecedented size and power to perform certain routine skills much better and much faster than was possible by hand.

Proudhon reduce themselves, then, to this: since the most skillful agriculturists are those who have reduced the heads of sheep to the smallest size, we shall have arrived at the highest agricultural perfection when sheep have no longer any heads.

She handed over an airmail letter and a well- wrapped packet about the size of a box of chocolates.

Near the centre of the formation a zone of space the size of a quark warped to an alarming degree as its mass leapt towards infinity, and the first frigate emerged.