size
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /saɪz/
rhymes: -aɪz
homophone: psis
homophone: scise
homophone: sighs
Forms: form: sizes
Etymology: 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”).
Senses: examples: text: The size of the building seemed to have increased since I was last there.
text: 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.
ref: 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Normandy SR-1:
text: [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, […].
ref: 2013 July 20, “Welcome to the plastisphere”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:
glosses: The dimensions or magnitude of a thing; how big something is.
examples: text: I don't think we have the red one in your size.
text: What size are you? I mean, what size shoes do you take?
glosses: A specific set of dimensions for a manufactured article, especially clothing.
topics: graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
glosses: The number of edges in a graph.
examples: text: men of a less size and quality**
ref: 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:
text: the middle or lower size of people
ref: 1720, Jonathan Swift, A Letter to a Young Clergyman:
glosses: Degree of rank, ability, character, etc.
examples: Edward H[enry] Knight (1877), “Size”, in Knight’s American Mechanical Dictionary. […], volumes III (REA–ZYM), New York, N.Y.: Hurd and Houghton […], →OCLC..
glosses: An instrument consisting of a number of perforated gauges fastened together at one end by a rivet, used for measuring the size of pearls
glosses: Ellipsis of chili size (“hamburger served with chili con carne”).
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society, published 1973, page 560:
glosses: An assize.
glosses: A regulation, piece of ordinance.
glosses: A regulation determining the amount of money paid in fees, taxes etc.
examples: text: to scant my sizes
ref: 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]:
glosses: A fixed standard for the magnitude, quality, quantity etc. of goods, especially food and drink.
Synonyms: word: size
word: bigness
word: bulk
word: largeness
word: magnitude
word: scale
Hypernyms: word: physical property
Hyponyms: word: bid size
word: cup size
word: effect size
word: family size
word: file size
word: shoe size
word: minuteness
word: smallness
word: tininess
word: enormity
word: gargantuanness
word: ginormousness
word: ginormity
word: hugeness
word: massiveness
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
is there a smaller 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
size matters
size queen
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: word: size up
word: size-up
word: big-ass
word: big old
word: gigantic
word: gigantesque
word: ginormous
word: behemothic
word: bulky
word: colossal
word: enormous
word: gargantuan
word: giant
word: great
word: great big
word: hulking
word: huge
word: mammoth
word: mastodonic
word: monstrous
word: mountainous
word: large
word: motivated
word: outsized
word: oversize
word: oversized
word: sizable
word: sizeable
word: staggering
word: stupendous
word: supersized
word: titanic
word: tremendous
word: vast
word: elephantine
word: immense
word: pantagruelian
word: Brobdingnagian
word: humongous
word: humungous
word: massive
word: big
word: little
word: little old
word: small
word: tiny
word: bitty
word: diminutive
word: dinky
word: lilliputian
word: micro
word: microscopic
word: mini
word: miniature
word: minuscule
word: minute
word: nano
word: slight
word: undersized
word: puny
word: petty
word: infinitesimal
word: negligible
word: it's not the size of the ship
word: it's the motion of the ocean
word: size matters