# size
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /saɪz/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -aɪz
* Homophones: psis, scise, sighs

### Etymology 1

Attested 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

size (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.
    What size are you? I mean, what size shoes do you take?
* (graph theory) The 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

* See also Thesaurus:size

##### Hyponyms

* bid size
* cup size
* effect size
* family size
* file size
* shoe size

##### Derived terms

* 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
* letter-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
* standard-size
* 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

* is there a smaller size
* one-size-fits-all
* size matters
* size queen
* size up

##### Descendants

* → 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

size (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.
** (military) To take the height of men, in order to place them in the ranks according to their stature.
** (mining) To sift (pieces of ore or metal) in order to separate the finer from the coarser parts.
* (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.
* (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

* (to adjust size): resize

##### Translations
### Etymology 2

From Middle English syse, of unclear origin; related to Old Italian sisa (“a glue used by painters”), perhaps ultimately related to size / syse (“amount”), or perhaps shortened from assisa, from assiso (“to make to sit, to seat, to place”)

#### Noun

size (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

* sizing

##### Translations
#### Verb

size (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
#### References

* ↑ “size”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
* 1 2 “sīse, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-25.
* 1 2 William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “size”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

### Etymology 3
#### Noun

size (plural sizes)
* Alternative form of sice (“number six in dice games”)

### See also

* Size in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

## Chinese
### Alternative forms

* 晒士, 嘥士

### Etymology

Borrowed from English size.

### Pronunciation

* Cantonese (Jyutping): saai$^1$ si$^2$
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: saai$^1$ si$^2$
*** Yale: sāai sí
*** Cantonese Pinyin: saai$^1$ si$^2$
*** Guangdong Romanization: sai$^1$ xi$^2$
*** Sinological IPA : /saːi̯⁵⁵ siː³⁵/

### Noun

size
* (Cantonese) size
    From: 2015, 史丹利, 睇淫故 學中文, 港股策略王, issue 40, page 79
    jau$^5$ jat$^1$ go$^3$ so$^4$ zai$^2$ zeng$^6$ jan$^4$ sin$^1$ jung$^6$ sing$^{4-2}$ dok$^6$ zi$^6$ gei$^2$ goek$^3$ dik$^1$ saai$^1$ si$^2$, jau$^5$ jat$^1$ jat$^6$ soeng$^2$ maai$^5$ haai$^4$, bat$^1$ gwo$^3$ heoi$^3$ dou$^3$ si$^5$ zaap$^6$ sin$^1$ faat$^3$ jin$^6$ zi$^6$ gei$^2$ mou$^5$ daai$^3$ tiu$^4$ sing$^{4-2}$, so$^2$ ji$^5$ m$^4$ zi$^1$ maai$^5$ haai$^4$ maai$^5$ me$^1$ saai$^1$ si$^2$. [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.
    From: 2016, Jerald Li, 還要問買甚麼size嗎？15款大熱波鞋size攻略
    ging$^1$ soeng$^4$ zoi$^6$ mong$^5$ soeng$^6$ gin$^3$ dou$^{3-2}$ jau$^5$ jan$^4$ man$^6$ sam$^6$ mo$^1$ bo$^1$ haai$^4$ jing$^1$ “maai$^5$ me$^1$ saai$^1$ si$^2$ hou$^2$?” [Jyutping]
    I always see people online asking something like "What size should I buy?" for sneakers
    From: 2016, 莊偉忠 (Daniel Chong), 不離地的CEO, page 104
    daai$^3$ zyu$^6$ deoi$^3$ m$^4$ ngaam$^1$ saai$^1$ si$^2$ ge$^3$ baak$^6$ sik$^1$ lou$^4$ gung$^1$ sau$^2$ tou$^3$ zai$^2$ [Jyutping]
    wearing white workers' gloves of the wrong size

#### Synonyms

* 尺寸 (chǐcùn)

## Turkish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /siˈzɛ/
** (colloquial, quick speech) IPA: /sːɛ/

### Pronoun

size
* dative of siz (you – plural or polite)

## Turkmen
### Noun

size
* dative plural of siz