size

The size of the building seemed to have increased since I was last there.

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.

2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Normandy SR-1:

[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, […].

2013 July 20, “Welcome to the plastisphere”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:

The dimensions or magnitude of a thing; how big something is.

I don't think we have the red one in your size.

A specific set of dimensions for a manufactured article, especially clothing.

(graph theory) The number of edges in a graph.

men of a less size and quality**

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:

the middle or lower size of people

1720, Jonathan Swift, A Letter to a Young Clergyman:

(figurative, dated) Degree of rank, ability, character, etc.

Edward H[enry] Knight (1877) “Size”, in Knight’s American Mechanical Dictionary. […], volumes III (REA–ZYM), New York, N.Y.: Hurd and Houghton […], →OCLC..

An instrument consisting of a number of perforated gauges fastened together at one end by a rivet, used for measuring the size of pearls

(US) Short for chili size (“hamburger served with chili con carne”).

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.

1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society, published 1973, page 560:

(obsolete) A regulation, piece of ordinance.

(obsolete) A regulation determining the amount of money paid in fees, taxes etc.

to scant my sizes

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]:

(obsolete) A fixed standard for the magnitude, quality, quantity etc. of goods, especially food and drink.

en-noun

size (countable and uncountable, plural sizes)

→ Cantonese: size (saai1 si2)

→ Irish: saghas

→ Japanese: サイズ (saizu)

→ Korean: 사이즈 (saijeu)

→ Malay: saiz

→ Persian: سایز (sâyz)

→ Urdu: سائز (sāiz)

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a specific set of dimensions for clothing

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graph theory: a number of edges in a graph

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”).


size

a statute […] to size weights, and measures

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:

(transitive) To adjust the size of; to make a certain size.

(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.

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.

(intransitive) To take a greater size; to increase in size.

(UK, Cambridge University, obsolete) To order food or drink from the buttery; hence, to enter a score, as upon the buttery book.

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.

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:

(transitive, obsolete) To swell; to increase the bulk of.

en-verb

size (third-person singular simple present sizes, present participle sizing, simple past and past participle sized)

sizes (present singular third-person)
sizing (participle present)
sized (participle past)
sized (past)


size

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.

1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 40:

A thin, weak glue used as primer for paper or canvas intended to be painted upon.

The thickened crust on coagulated blood.

Any viscous substance, such as gilder's varnish.

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thin, weak glue intended to be painted upon

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”)


size

(transitive) To apply glue or other primer to a surface which is to be painted.

pohjustaa

to apply primer to a surface which is to be painted


size

Alternative form of sice (“number six in dice games”)

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