From en.wiktionary.org:
[sizə]
** English
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Etymology 1
[en] Attested since the 14th century, originally meant a “law or regulation
that determines the amount to be paid”, from [en], [enm], from [en], [fro],
aphetism of [fro], from the verb [fro], from [en], composed of [la],
ultimately from [en]. Displaced native [ang].
**** Noun
[~]
1. The dimensions or magnitude of a thing; how big something is. [from 15th c.]
2. * [en]
3. * [en]
4. A specific set of dimension s for a manufactured article, especially clothing . [from 16th c.]
5. [en] The number of edges in a graph . [from 20th c.]
6. [en] Degree of rank, ability, character, etc.
7. * [passage=men of a less SIZE and quality**]
8. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1720 | author=w:Jonathan Swift | title= Basa Sunda: The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift/Volume 5/A Letter to a Young Clergyman
|passage=the middle or lower SIZE of people}}
1. An instrument consisting of a number of perforate d gauge s fastened together at one end by a rivet , used for measuring the size of pearl s
2. * [R:Knight AMD] .
3. [en] [en] .
4. [en] An assize . [from 14th c.]
5. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1749 | author=Henry Fielding | title=Tom Jones | page=560 | publisher=Folio Society | year_published=1973
|passage=I know you would have women above the law, but it is all a lye; I
heard his lordship say at SIZE, that no one is above the law.}}
1. [en] A regulation , piece of ordinance . [15th c.]
2. [en] A regulation determining the amount of money paid in fees , taxes etc. [14th]
3. [en] A fixed standard for the magnitude, quality, quantity etc. of goods, especially food and drink. [15th]
4. * [II]
***** Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:size
***** Hyponyms
{{col4|en|bid size |cup size |effect size |family size |file size |shoe size
}}
***** Derived terms
{{col4|en|letter-size|bite-size|bring down to size|brood size|chili size|cut
down to size|effective stack size|fun size|genome size|gold size|grain
size|king size|knock down to size|man-size|pick on someone your own size|plus
size|right-size|size down|size roll|size stick|size theory|size
zero|size-exclusion chromatography|travel-size|trim down to size|try for
size|try on for size|whittle down to size |fist-size |full-size |fun-size
|good-sized|one-size diaper|one-size nappy|one-size-fits-most|size inflation
|king-size |king-sized|standard-size
|legal-size|blocksize|Capesize|desize|downsize|fun-sized|microsize|multisize|nanosize|nodesize|outsize|oversize|rightsize|sizable|sizecode|sizeism|sizeist|sizeless|sizewise|sizism|sizist|sizy|smartsize|stepsize|supersize|undersize|unisize|upsize|voxelsize|wordsize
|life-size |life-sized |medium-sized |mid-size |middle-sized|size difference
|millimetre-sized |nanosized |near-Earth-size |near-Earth-sized
|one-size-fits-all |pint-size |plus-size |pocket-size |queen-size |size-zero
|sizer|is there a smaller size |one-size-fits-all |size matters |size queen
|that's about the size of it |twin-size }}
***** Related terms
{{col4|en |size up|size-up }}
***** Descendants
- [yue]
- [ga]
- [ja]
- [ko]
- [ms]
- [fa]
- [ur]
***** Translations
[dimensions or magnitude of a thing]
- Albanian: [sq]
- Arabic: [ar] , [ar] , [ar]
- Aragonese: [an]
- Armenian: [hy] , [hy]
- Asturian: [ast]
- Azerbaijani: [az] , [az]
- Basque: [eu]
- Belarusian: [be] , [be]
- Belizean Creole: [bzj]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Burmese: [my] , [my]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Cebuano: [ceb]
- Chinese:
- Choctaw: [cho]
- Coptic: [cop]
- Czech: [cs] , [cs]
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo] , [eo]
- Estonian: [et]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Galician: [gl]
- Georgian: [ka]
- German: [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Hindi: [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Icelandic: [is]
- Igbo: [ig]
- Indonesian: [id]
- Ingrian: [izh]
- Irish: [ga]
- Italian: [it] , [it] , [it]
- Japanese: [dimension or magnitude] [ja] , [ja] ; [dimension] [ja] ; [magnitude] , [ja] , [ja] , [ja]
- Kapampangan: [pam]
- Kazakh: [kk] , [kk] , [kk]
- Khmer: [km]
- Korean: [ko] , [ko]
- Kyrgyz: [ky] , [ky]
- Lao: [lo] , [lo] , [lo]
- Latin: [la]
- Latvian: [lv]
- Lithuanian: [lt]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Malay: [ms]
- Mongolian:
- Norwegian:
- Old English: [ang]
- Persian: [fa]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Quechua: [qu]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd] , [gd]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Slovak: [sk] , [sk]
- Slovene: [sl]
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Tagalog: [tl]
- Tajik: [tg]
- Thai: [th]
- Turkish: [tr] , [tr] , [tr]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk]
- Uzbek: [uz] , [uz]
- Vietnamese: [vi]
- Zulu: [zu]
- ǃXóõ: [nmn]
[trans-bottom]
[a specific set of dimensions for clothing]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Azerbaijani: [az]
- Belarusian: [be]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Burmese: [my]
- Chinese:
- Choctaw: [cho]
- Czech: [cs]
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Estonian: [et] , [et]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Galician: [gl]
- German: [de] , [de] , [de]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja] , [ja]
- Kazakh: [kk]
- Korean: [ko]
- Kyrgyz: [ky] , [ky]
- Latvian: [lv]
- Lithuanian: [lt] , [lt] [of shoes]
- Malay: [ms]
- Mongolian:
- Norwegian:
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd]
- Slovak: [sk]
- Slovene: [sl]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Tajik: [tg]
- Turkish: [tr] , [tr] , [tr]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
- Uzbek: [uz] , [uz]
- Vietnamese: [vi] , [vi]
[trans-bottom]
[graph theory: a number of edges in a graph]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Finnish: [fi]
[trans-bottom]
[assize]
[checktrans-top]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl]
- French: [fr] , [fr]
- Italian: [it] , [it] , [it]
- Korean: [ko]
- Lithuanian: [lt]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Telugu: [te] , [te]
[trans-bottom]
**** Verb
[en-verb]
1. [en] To adjust the size of; to make a certain size.
2. * {{ RQ:Bacon Henry 7
|passage=a statute [...] to SIZE weights, and measures}}
1. [en] To classify or arrange by size.
1. [en] To take the height of men, in order to place them in the rank s according to their stature .
2. [en] To sift (pieces of ore or metal) in order to separate the finer from the coarser parts.
2. [en] To approximate the dimensions, estimate the size of.
3. [en] To take a greater size; to increase in size.
4. * AFTER 1633 (first published), [John Donne] , _Basa Sunda: Farewell to Love_
5. *: Our desires give them fashion, and so, / As they wax lesser, fall, as they SIZE , grow.
6. [en] To order food or drink from the buttery ; hence, to enter a score , as upon the buttery book.
7. [en] To swell; to increase the bulk of.
8. * [i]
***** Hyponyms
- [to adjust size] [en]
***** Translations
[to adjust the size of]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Japanese: [ja]
[trans-bottom]
[to classify or arrange by size]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- Japanese: [classify] [ja] ; [arrange] [ja]
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
[trans-bottom]
[to estimate the size of]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Spanish: [es]
[trans-bottom]
*** Etymology 2
From [en],[1] of unclear origin;[2] related to [en],[3] perhaps ultimately
related to [en] / [enm],<ref name="MED-sise2"/><ref name="Century-size2"/> or
perhaps shortened from [it], from [it]<!--source?-->
**** Noun
[~]
1. [en] A thin, weak glue used as primer for paper or canvas intended to be painted upon.
2. * [year=1962]
3. Wallpaper paste .
4. The thickened crust on coagulated blood .
5. Any viscous substance, such as gilder 's varnish .
***** Derived terms
- sizing
***** Translations
[thin, weak glue intended to be painted upon]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu] , [hu]
- Ido: [io] , [io]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
[trans-bottom]
[wallpaper paste]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Ottoman Turkish: [ota]
- Spanish: [es]
- Turkish: [tr]
[trans-bottom]
[thickened crust on coagulated blood]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Japanese: [ja]
[trans-bottom]
**** Verb
[en-verb]
1. [en] To apply glue or other primer to a surface which is to be painted.
***** Translations
[to apply primer to a surface which is to be painted]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Ottoman Turkish: [ota]
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
[trans-bottom]
**** References
References:
[1]. [R:MWO]
[2]. [entry=sīse ]
[3]. [size]
*** Etymology 3
**** Noun
[en-noun]
1. [en] .
*** See also
- [Size]
[en] [en]
** Chinese
*** Alternative forms
- [zh]
*** Etymology
Borrowed from [yue].
*** Pronunciation
{{zh-pron |c=saai1 si2 |cat=n }}
*** Noun
[zh]
1. [zh] size
2. * [有 一個 傻仔 鄭 人 先 用 繩{sing4-2} 度{dok6} 自己 腳 的 SI{AAI1}Z{S}E{I2} ，有 一日 想 買 鞋，不過 去 到 市集 先 發現 自己 冇\無{mou5} 帶{daai3} 條 繩{sing4-2}，所以 唔 知 買 鞋 買 咩 SI{AAI1}Z{S}E{I2} 。]
3. * [經常 在 網上 見到{dou3-2} 有人 問 甚 [ 什 ] 麼 波鞋 應「買 咩 SI{AAI1}Z{S}E{I2} 好？」]
4. * [戴 住 對 唔 啱 SI{AAI1}Z{S}E{I2} 嘅 白色 勞工手套 仔]
**** Synonyms
- [尺寸]
** Turkish
*** Pronunciation
- [tr]
- [tr]
*** Pronoun
[tr]
1. [tr] : you – plural or polite
** Turkmen
*** Noun
[tk]
1. [tk]