Definitions for size

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Spelling: [sahyz]

IPA: /saɪz/

Size is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 16 anagrams from letters in size (eisz).

Definitions for size

noun

1. the spatial dimensions, proportions, magnitude, or bulk of anything:
2. considerable or great magnitude:
3. one of a series of graduated measures for articles of manufacture or trade:
4. extent; amount; range:
5. actual condition, circumstance, or state of affairs:
6. a number of population or contents:
7. Obsolete. a fixed standard of quality or quantity, as for food or drink.
8. 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 size

1250-1300; (noun) Middle English syse orig., control, regulation, limit Old French sise, aphetic variant of assise assize; (v.) in part representing late Middle Eng

Examples for size

How long the bread should bake depends on the size of the loaf.

Bake for an hour or more, according to the size of the loaves.

To make sure of success and the size of his stakes he was willing to invest heavily.

"She must have had ready another stone of shape and size like it," said the Corn Woman.

The city is incredibly violent for its size, on par with metropolises that dwarf the town.

As I size up the scene, Jack White now wears the crown … and he wears it well.

Then make it clear that there will be no bailouts, not that there will be bailouts up to this or that size.

Why the size and shape of a copper still is at the core of whisky distillation.

Most of the actions taken by prior presidents were more limited in size, scope and benefits.

And she says: 'How old is the young lady, and what's her size, and what's her color?'