size
English
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
editAttested 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”).
Noun
editsize (countable and uncountable, plural sizes)
- The dimensions or magnitude of a thing; how big something is. [from 15th c.]
- The size of the building seemed to have increased since I was last there.
- 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Normandy SR-1:
- 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.
- 2013 July 20, “Welcome to the plastisphere”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:
- [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, […].
- A specific set of dimensions for a manufactured article, especially clothing. [from 16th c.]
- I don't think we have the red one in your size.
- (graph theory) A number of edges in a graph. [from 20th c.]
- (figurative, dated) Degree of rank, ability, character, etc.
- 1692, Roger L’Estrange, “ (please specify the fable number.) (please specify the name of the fable.)”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], →OCLC:
- men of a less size and quality**
- 1720, Jonathan Swift, A Letter to a Young Clergyman:
- the middle or lower size of people
- 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..
- (US) Short for chili size (“hamburger served with chili con carne”).
- (obsolete outside dialects) An assize. [from 14th c.]
- 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society, published 1973, page 560:
- 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.
- (obsolete) A regulation, piece of ordinance. [15th c.]
- (obsolete) A regulation determining the amount of money paid in fees, taxes etc. [14th–18th c.]
- (obsolete) A fixed standard for the magnitude, quality, quantity etc. of goods, especially food and drink. [15th–17th c.]
- c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iv]:
- to scant my sizes
Synonyms
edit- See also Thesaurus:size
Hyponyms
editDerived terms
edit- bite-size
- blocksize
- bring down to size
- brood size
- Capesize
- chili size
- cut down to size
- desize
- downsize
- effective stack size
- fist-size
- full-size
- fun-size
- fun size
- fun-sized
- genome size
- gold size
- good-sized
- grain size
- king size
- king-size
- king-sized
- knock down to size
- legal-size
- life-size
- life-sized
- man-size
- medium-sized
- microsize
- middle-sized
- mid-size
- millimetre-sized
- multisize
- nanosize
- nanosized
- near-Earth-size
- near-Earth-sized
- nodesize
- one-size diaper
- one-size-fits-all
- one-size-fits-most
- one-size nappy
- outsize
- oversize
- pick on someone your own size
- pint-size
- plus size
- plus-size
- pocket-size
- queen-size
- rightsize
- right-size
- sizable
- sizecode
- size difference
- size down
- size-exclusion chromatography
- size inflation
- sizeism
- sizeist
- sizeless
- sizer
- size roll
- size stick
- size theory
- sizewise
- size-zero
- size zero
- sizism
- sizist
- sizy
- smartsize
- stepsize
- supersize
- that's about the size of it
- travel-size
- trim down to size
- try for size
- try on for size
- twin-size
- undersize
- unisize
- upsize
- voxelsize
- whittle down to size
- wordsize
Related terms
editDescendants
edit- → Cantonese: size (saai1 si2)
- → Irish: saghas
- → Japanese: サイズ (saizu)
- → Korean: 사이즈 (saijeu)
- → Malay: saiz
- → Persian: سایز (sâyz)
- → Urdu: سائز (sāiz)
Translations
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Verb
editsize (third-person singular simple present sizes, present participle sizing, simple past and past participle sized)
- (transitive) To adjust the size of; to make a certain size.
- 1622, Francis, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban [i.e. Francis Bacon], The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh, […], London: […] W[illiam] Stansby for Matthew Lownes, and William Barret, →OCLC:
- a statute […] to size weights, and measures
- (transitive) To classify or arrange by size.
- (transitive, colloquial) To approximate the dimensions, estimate the size of.
- (intransitive) 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.
- after 1633 (first published), John Donne, Farewell to Love
- (UK, Cambridge University, obsolete) To order food or drink from the buttery; hence, to enter a score, as upon the buttery book.
- (transitive, obsolete) To swell; to increase the bulk of.
- 1613–1614 (date written), John Fletcher, William Shak[e]speare, The Two Noble Kinsmen: […], London: […] Tho[mas] Cotes, for Iohn Waterson; […], published 1634, →OCLC, Act I, scene i, page 1:
- 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.
Hyponyms
edit- (to adjust size): resize
Translations
editEtymology 2
editFrom Middle English syse,[1] of unclear origin;[2] related to Old Italian sisa (“a glue used by painters”),[3] perhaps ultimately related to size / syse (“amount”),[2][3] or perhaps shortened from assisa, from assiso (“to make to sit, to seat, to place”)
Noun
editsize (countable and uncountable, plural sizes)
- A thin, weak glue used as primer for paper or canvas intended to be painted upon.
- 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 40:
- 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.
- Wallpaper paste.
- The thickened crust on coagulated blood.
- Any viscous substance, such as gilder's varnish.
Derived terms
editTranslations
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Verb
editsize (third-person singular simple present sizes, present participle sizing, simple past and past participle sized)
- (transitive) To apply glue or other primer to a surface which is to be painted.
Translations
editReferences
edit- ^ “size”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 “sīse, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-25.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 “size”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
Etymology 3
editNoun
editsize (plural sizes)
- Alternative form of sice (“number six in dice games”)
See also
editChinese
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editPronunciation
edit- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Jyutping: saai1 si2
- Yale: sāai sí
- Cantonese Pinyin: saai1 si2
- Guangdong Romanization: sai1 xi2
- Sinological IPA (key): /saːi̯⁵⁵ siː³⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
Noun
editsize
- (Cantonese) size
- 有一個傻仔鄭人先用繩度自己腳的size,有一日想買鞋,不過去到市集先發現自己無帶條繩,所以唔知買鞋買咩size。 [Cantonese, trad.]
- From: 2015, 史丹利, 睇淫故 學中文, 港股策略王, issue 40, page 79
- jau5 jat1 go3 so4 zai2 zeng6 jan4 sin1 jung6 sing4-2 dok6 zi6 gei2 goek3 dik1 saai1 si2, jau5 jat1 jat6 soeng2 maai5 haai4, bat1 gwo3 heoi3 dou3 si5 zaap6 sin1 faat3 jin6 zi6 gei2 mou5 daai3 tiu4 sing4-2, so2 ji5 m4 zi1 maai5 haai4 maai5 me1 saai1 si2. [Jyutping]
- There was a stupid guy from Zheng who used only a string to measure the size of his feet; one day, he wanted to buy shoes, but only when he got to the market did he realize that he didn't bring his string, so he didn't know what shoe size to buy.
有一个傻仔郑人先用绳度自己脚的size,有一日想买鞋,不过去到市集先发现自己无带条绳,所以唔知买鞋买咩size。 [Cantonese, simp.]- 經常在網上見到有人問甚麼波鞋應「買咩size好?」 [Cantonese, trad.]
- From: 2016, Jerald Li, 還要問買甚麼size嗎?15款大熱波鞋size攻略
- ging1 soeng4 zoi6 mong5 soeng6 gin3 dou3-2 jau5 jan4 man6 sam6 mo1 bo1 haai4 jing1 “maai5 me1 saai1 si2 hou2?” [Jyutping]
- I always see people online asking something like "What size should I buy?" for sneakers
经常在网上见到有人问什么波鞋应「买咩size好?」 [Cantonese, simp.]
Synonyms
edit- 尺寸 (chǐcùn)
Turkish
editPronunciation
editPronoun
editsize
Turkmen
editNoun
editsize
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