Definitions for sizing

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sizing siz·ing

Spelling: [sahy-zing]

IPA: /ˈsaɪ zɪŋ/

Sizing is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 36 anagrams from letters in sizing (giinsz).

Definitions for sizing

noun

1. the act or process of applying size or preparing with size.
2. size, as for glazing paper or strengthening fabric.
3. the spatial dimensions, proportions, magnitude, or bulk of anything:
4. considerable or great magnitude:
5. one of a series of graduated measures for articles of manufacture or trade:
6. extent; amount; range:
7. actual condition, circumstance, or state of affairs:
8. a number of population or contents:
9. Obsolete. a fixed standard of quality or quantity, as for food or drink.
10. any of various gelatinous or glutinous preparations made from glue, starch, etc., used for filling the pores of cloth, paper, etc., or as an adhesive ground for gold leaf on books.

Idioms

1. of a size, of the same or similar size:
2. try on for size, to put on briefly in order to test the fit of, as a garment or shoes. to consider, evaluate, do, or use before taking further action:

Verb phrases

1. size up, Informal. to form an estimate of (a situation, person, etc.); judge: to meet a certain standard:

verb (used with object)

1. to separate or sort according to size.
2. to make of a certain size.
3. Metallurgy. to press (a sintered compact) to close tolerances.
4. Obsolete. to regulate or control according to a fixed standard.
5. to coat or treat with size.

Origin of sizing

First recorded in 1625-35; size² + -ing¹

Examples for sizing

Pictures show Valentini hovering uncomfortably close to the participants, scanning the action, sizing people up.

We are just sizing up the situation, to find out how much is gone.

"It can be arranged if you pay in advance," he said, sizing her up.

No more wondering why Gap jeans seem to have their own sizing logic.

Men stare at you quietly as you pass through, sizing you up, and taking long careful drags from their cigarettes.

The machine -- clad with a sizing chart -- allows customers to insert money and select an item to be released immediately.

Virtually anyone sitting in the Oval Office would be sizing this up the way he is.

The leaders paused, and sizing up the situation, came on at a run.

Nor was that veteran questioner long in sizing up the cause.

End grain can be made to stick only by sizing with thin glue to stop the pores.