What is "sizing"

Usage examples of "sizing".

Anna was fussing, and Othur and Marcus seemed to be sizing each other up.

Looking at them toiling, sizing up each one, he felt he had to disregard those he had not met, and concentrate on the men in whose company he had been taken up.

It was thawing a little, as if Bradley had completed the job of sizing Bannerman up and had decided that he would prefer to talk with him rather than seem to have any contact with Maritta.

The hills surrounding Drake Field were in the full lush greenery of late springtime, and the air was the fragrant Bodarks ozone that is found nowhere else on earth, but he sniffed it as if it came from a sewage plant, and he looked around disdainfully at his surroundings until his eyes came to rest on me, and he gave me a look as if sizing me up for the casting couch and finding me not worthy of it.

Bug bent down, eyeing the strip of red peel with her head on one side, like a robin sizing up a likely worm.

A dozen sellswords and cutthroats no doubt, but their trade was less important than the fact that several of them had longbows and seemed to be sizing up the distance and the possibilities of making the shot.

Sitting beside Gilwyn in the wagon, Breck watched the fortress rise above them, sizing it up through narrowed eyes.

It wasn't just the look of an animal sizing him up on the level of food/threat/thing.

Mills seemed to be sizing Beef up, deciding whether to be frank or not.

Nick knew he was staring at his bloody shirt and sizing up his lifeless gaze.

There were twenty-five Comanches in the Club, or twenty-five legitimate living descendants of the Laughing Man--all of us circulating ominously, and incognito, throughout the city, sizing up elevator operators as potential archenemies, whispering side-of-the-mouth but fluent orders into the ears of cocker spaniels, drawing beads, with index fingers, on the foreheads of arithmetic teachers.

After sizing me up for about an hour, the CEO offered this poignant, terse, and very Yankee summary that has been among my guiding principles ever since: “.

He had a knack for sizing up suspects immediately, but when it came to figuring out his own wife, forget it.

Anthropologtzers have theorized about the extent to which the reports' fUtplugs have been modified from general issue standards Conceivably, the detailed adjustment (presumably for fit) of many of the spates indicates the prudence of the owner and therefore aided survival Studies are underway to process data about numbers of plugs, numbers of modified plugs, proportions at different sites, and general condition of the associated stillsuits The goal is significant correlations indicating survival propensities of different characteristics Cynics have won dered if, since the universal sizing of filtplugs seems to have been reasonably efficient, the .

They seemed to be sizing Umpily up, conveying a sense of getting down to business.