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noun

Sizing n.

1.

Act of covering or treating with size.

2.

A weak glue used in various trades; size.

Sizing n.

1.

The act of sorting with respect to size.

2.

The act of bringing anything to a certain size.

3.

(Univ. of Cambridge, Eng.) Food and drink ordered from the buttery by a student.

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.

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"Sizing" Quotes from Famous Books

... grows best in well drained, fertile soil and a bluegrass sod. Small amounts of nitrate fertilizer, about the same quantity used on fruit trees, have stimulated growth and no doubt have helped in the sizing up of the nuts. The tree does not do well under cultivation or mulching, as winter injury to the tree has been recorded when compared to bluegrass sod. There is also a possibility that the tree will respond to applications of liquid or ...

— Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 41st Annual Meeting • Various

... are too far in us from outward truth To know how much we are not what we are, And live but in the heat of error's youth, Yet young enough its acting youth to ignore. The doubleness of mind fails us, to glance At our exterior presence amid things, Sizing from otherness our countenance And seeing our puppet will's act-acting strings. An unknown language speaks in us, which we Are at the words ...

— 35 Sonnets • Fernando Pessoa

... countryman of yours. The General and I will be too busy getting-ready-to-meet-them-on-their-own-grounds to give any time to that. Remember, they will have to be shown the best grazing land in the valley, in motor cars. When they are done sizing us up, we'll be ready for them. The Count and his secretaries will, of course, be entertained at the Mansion and you can make arrangements at the hotel for the rest of the suite. Also will you please instruct my servants, from Cato down, how to make ...

— The Daredevil • Maria Thompson Daviess

... a lot of labels, and some boxes too. The labels was all different sizes, but barring that they all looked about the same to me. Whilst I was sizing them up he asts me agin was they any ...

— Danny's Own Story • Don Marquis

... other in that momentary pause? Not the utility of the whole 6 pounds of sugar against the total price of 42 cents. For she has already ordered the first 5 pounds; and the decision to buy the sixth is taken independently and subsequently. She has been sizing up the increment of utility which a sixth pound would yield, and she decides that this is worth the expenditure of a further 7 cents. Again, when the price was 8 cents she need not have bought as many as 5 pounds. She could ...

— Supply and Demand • Hubert D. Henderson

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