size

Definitions

1. 1noun

   Six.

2. 2intransitive verb

   A thin, weak glue used in various trades, as in painting, bookbinding, paper making, etc.

3. 3intransitive verb

   Any viscous substance, as gilder's varnish.

4. 4transitive verb

   To cover with size; to prepare with size.

5. 5noun

   A settled quantity or allowance. See Assize.

6. 6noun

   An allowance of food and drink from the buttery, aside from the regular dinner at commons; -- corresponding to battel at Oxford.

7. 7noun

   Extent of superficies or volume; bulk; bigness; magnitude; as, the size of a tree or of a mast; the size of a ship or of a rock.

8. 8noun

   Figurative bulk; condition as to rank, ability, character, etc.; as, the office demands a man of larger size.

9. 9noun

   A conventional relative measure of dimension, as for shoes, gloves, and other articles made up for sale.

10. 10noun

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

11. 11transitive verb

    To fix the standard of.

12. 12transitive verb

    To adjust or arrange according to size or bulk.

13. 13transitive verb

    To take the height of men, in order to place them in the ranks according to their stature.

14. 14transitive verb

    To sift, as pieces of ore or metal, in order to separate the finer from the coarser parts.

15. 15transitive verb

    To swell; to increase the bulk of.

16. 16transitive verb

    To bring or adjust anything exactly to a required dimension, as by cutting.

17. 17intransitive verb

    To take greater size; to increase in size.

18. 18intransitive verb

    To order food or drink from the buttery; hence, to enter a score, as upon the buttery book.

19. 19noun

    the property resulting from being one of a series of graduated measurements (as of clothing)

    "he wears a size 13 shoe"

20. 20noun

    the physical magnitude of something (how big it is)

    "a wolf is about the size of a large dog"

21. 21noun

    a large magnitude

    "he blanched when he saw the size of the bill"

    "the only city of any size in that area"

22. 22noun

    the actual state of affairs

    "that's the size of the situation"

    "she hates me, that's about the size of it"

23. 23noun

    any glutinous material used to fill pores in surfaces or to stiffen fabrics

    "size gives body to a fabric"

    Synonyms

    sizing
24. 24verb

    make to a size; bring to a suitable size

25. 25verb

    sort according to size

26. 26verb

    cover or stiffen or glaze a porous material with size or sizing (a glutinous substance)

27. 27adjective

    (used in combination) sized

    "the economy-size package"

    "average-size house"