Found 4 items, similar to Size.
English → Indonesian (Kamus Landak)
Definition: size
ukuran
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: size
ukuran
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: size
size
v 1: 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
n 1: 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”
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Size
Size
\Size\, v. t.
1. To fix the standard of.
“To size weights and measures.”
[R.] --Bacon.
[1913 Webster]
2. To adjust or arrange according to size or bulk.
Specifically:
(a) (Mil.) To take the height of men, in order to place
them in the ranks according to their stature.
(b) (Mining) To sift, as pieces of ore or metal, in order
to separate the finer from the coarser parts.
[1913 Webster]
3. To swell; to increase the bulk of. --Beau. & Fl.
[1913 Webster]
4. (Mech.) To bring or adjust anything exactly to a required
dimension, as by cutting.
[1913 Webster]
To size up, to estimate or ascertain the character and
ability of. See 4th
Size, 4. [Slang, U.S.]
[1913 Webster]
We had to size up our fellow legislators. --The
Century.
[1913 Webster]
Size
\Size\, n. [See
Sice, and
Sise.]
Six.
[1913 Webster]
Size
\Size\, n. [OIt. sisa glue used by painters, shortened fr.
assisa, fr. assidere, p. p. assiso, to make to sit, to seat,
to place, L. assidere to sit down; ad + sidere to sit down,
akin to sedere to sit. See
Sit, v. i., and cf.
Assize,
Size bulk.]
1. A thin, weak glue used in various trades, as in painting,
bookbinding, paper making, etc.
[1913 Webster]
2. Any viscous substance, as gilder's varnish.
[1913 Webster]
Size
\Size\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Sized; p. pr. & vb. n.
Sizing.]
To cover with size; to prepare with size.
[1913 Webster]
Size
\Size\, n. [Abbrev. from assize. See
Assize, and cf.
Size glue.]
1. A settled quantity or allowance. See
Assize. [Obs.]
“To
scant my sizes.” --Shak.
[1913 Webster]
2. (Univ. of Cambridge, Eng.) An allowance of food and drink
from the buttery, aside from the regular dinner at
commons; -- corresponding to battel at Oxford.
[1913 Webster]
3. 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.
[1913 Webster]
4. Figurative bulk; condition as to rank, ability, character,
etc.; as, the office demands a man of larger size.
[1913 Webster]
Men of a less size and quality. --L'Estrange.
[1913 Webster]
The middling or lower size of people. --Swift.
[1913 Webster]
5. A conventional relative measure of dimension, as for
shoes, gloves, and other articles made up for sale.
[1913 Webster]
6. An instrument consisting of a number of perforated gauges
fastened together at one end by a rivet, -- used for
ascertaining the size of pearls. --Knight.
[1913 Webster]
Size roll, a small piese of parchment added to a roll.
Size stick, a measuring stick used by shoemakers for
ascertaining the size of the foot.
[1913 Webster]
Syn: Dimension; bigness; largeness; greatness; magnitude.
[1913 Webster]
Size
\Size\, v. i.
1. To take greater size; to increase in size.
[1913 Webster]
Our desires give them fashion, and so,
As they wax lesser, fall, as they size, grow.
--Donne.
[1913 Webster]
2. (Univ. of Cambridge, Eng.) To order food or drink from the
buttery; hence, to enter a score, as upon the buttery
book.
[1913 Webster]