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verb

Size v. t. (past & past part. sized; pres. part. sizing) To cover with size; to prepare with size.

Size v. t.

1.

To fix the standard of. "To size weights and measures." (R.)

2.

To adjust or arrange according to size or bulk. Specifically:

(a)

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

(b)

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

3.

To swell; to increase the bulk of.

4.

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

To size up, to estimate or ascertain the character and ability of. See 4th Size, 4. (Slang, U.S.) "We had to size up our fellow legislators."

Size v. i.

1.

To take greater size; to increase in size. "Our desires give them fashion, and so, As they wax lesser, fall, as they size, grow."

2.

(Univ. of Cambridge, Eng.) To order food or drink from the buttery; hence, to enter a score, as upon the buttery book.

adjective

Sized adj.

1.

Adjusted according to size.

2.

Having a particular size or magnitude; chiefly used in compounds; as, large-sized; common-sized.

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Etymology of 'Sized'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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— The Soul of the War • Philip Gibbs

... his wife and himself, Constable was not quite carefree, because he had to raise a good sized family of six children so that when his wife's father died and left his daughter oe20,000 he said to a friend: "Now I shall stand before a six-foot canvas with a mind at ease, thank God!" In the very midst of this happiness, ...

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