Meaning of 'size' (Webster Dictionary)
- Six.
- A settled quantity or allowance. See Assize.
- An allowance of food and drink from the buttery, aside from
the regular dinner at commons; -- corresponding to battel at Oxford.
- Extent of superficies or volume; bulk; bigness; magnitude;
as, the size of a tree or of a mast; the size of a ship or of a rock.
- Figurative bulk; condition as to rank, ability, character,
etc.; as, the office demands a man of larger size.
- A conventional relative measure of dimension, as for shoes,
gloves, and other articles made up for sale.
- An instrument consisting of a number of perforated gauges
fastened together at one end by a rivet, -- used for ascertaining the
size of pearls.
- A thin, weak glue used in various trades, as in painting,
bookbinding, paper making, etc.
- Any viscous substance, as gilder's varnish.
- To take greater size; to increase in size.
- To order food or drink from the buttery; hence, to enter a
score, as upon the buttery book.
- To cover with size; to prepare with size.
- To fix the standard of.
- To adjust or arrange according to size or bulk.
- To take the height of men, in order to place them in the
ranks according to their stature.
- To sift, as pieces of ore or metal, in order to separate
the finer from the coarser parts.
- To swell; to increase the bulk of.
- To bring or adjust anything exactly to a required
dimension, as by cutting.
Meaning of 'size' (Princeton's WordNet)
Meaning (1):
- the physical magnitude of something (how big it is)
Example in sentence:- a wolf is about the size of a large dog
Meaning (2):
- a large magnitude
Example in sentence:- he blanched when he saw the size of the bill;
- the only city of any size in that area
Meaning (3):
- the property resulting from being one of a series of graduated measurements (as of clothing)
Meaning (4):
- the actual state of affairs
Example in sentence:- she hates me, that's about the size of it;
- that's the size of the situation
Meaning (5):
- any glutinous material used to fill pores in surfaces or to stiffen fabrics
Example in sentence:- size gives body to a fabric
Meaning (6):
- (used in combination) sized
Example in sentence:- average-size house;
- the economy-size package
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