size

size is a 4-letter English word with 27 senses as noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb, verb, and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Six. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 13 · 27 senses

Definitions

1. noun. Six.
2. intransitive verb. A thin, weak glue used in various trades, as in painting, bookbinding, paper making, etc.
3. intransitive verb. Any viscous substance, as gilder's varnish.
4. transitive verb. To cover with size; to prepare with size.
5. noun. A settled quantity or allowance. See Assize.
6. noun. An allowance of food and drink from the buttery, aside from the regular dinner at commons; -- corresponding to battel at Oxford.
7. noun. 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. noun. Figurative bulk; condition as to rank, ability, character, etc.; as, the office demands a man of larger size.
9. noun. A conventional relative measure of dimension, as for shoes, gloves, and other articles made up for sale.
10. noun. 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. transitive verb. To fix the standard of.
12. transitive verb. To adjust or arrange according to size or bulk.
13. transitive verb. To take the height of men, in order to place them in the ranks according to their stature.
14. transitive verb. To sift, as pieces of ore or metal, in order to separate the finer from the coarser parts.
15. transitive verb. To swell; to increase the bulk of.
16. transitive verb. To bring or adjust anything exactly to a required dimension, as by cutting.
17. intransitive verb. To take greater size; to increase in size.
18. intransitive verb. To order food or drink from the buttery; hence, to enter a score, as upon the buttery book.
19. noun. the property resulting from being one of a series of graduated measurements (as of clothing)

    "he wears a size 13 shoe"

20. noun. the physical magnitude of something (how big it is)

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

21. noun. a large magnitude

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

    "the only city of any size in that area"

22. noun. the actual state of affairs

    "that's the size of the situation"

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

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

    "size gives body to a fabric"

    Synonyms: sizing

24. verb. make to a size; bring to a suitable size
25. verb. sort according to size
26. verb. cover or stiffen or glaze a porous material with size or sizing (a glutinous substance)
27. adjective. (used in combination) sized

    "the economy-size package"

    "average-size house"

Synonyms

sizing

Common word forms

sized, sizer, sizes, sizing, sizeable

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