Definition of Size

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Definition of Size

Size

Six.

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

Any viscous substance, as gilder's varnish.

To cover with size; to prepare with size.

A settled quantity or allowance. See Assize.

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

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.

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

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

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

To fix the standard of.

To adjust or arrange according to size or bulk.

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

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

To swell; to increase the bulk of.

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

To take greater size; to increase in size.

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

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Size Quotations

Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation - not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago.
Barack Obama

No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth!
Ronald Reagan

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Mark Twain

You can often measure a person by the size of his dream.
Robert H. Schuller

Press on. Obstacles are seldom the same size tomorrow as they are today.
Robert H. Schuller

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Because of their size, parents may be difficult to discipline properly.
P. J. O'Rourke

The mind, once expanded to the dimensions of larger ideas, never returns to its original size.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

It is a well-documented fact that guys will not ask for directions. This is a biological thing. This is why it takes several million sperm cells... to locate a female egg, despite the fact that the egg is, relative to them, the size of Wisconsin.
Dave Barry

Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
Virginia Woolf

Size Translations

size in Afrikaans is grootte
size in Dutch is omvang, bestek, grootte
size in Finnish is laajuus
size in French is ampleur, pointure
size in German is Format, ausmessen
size in Italian is grossezza
size in Latin is amplitudo
size in Portuguese is tamanho

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