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Sized   /saɪzd/   Listen
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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"Sized" Quotes from Famous Books



... unexpectedly offered to lend Mr. Peterkin a good-sized family trunk. But it was late in the season, and so the journey was put off from ...
— The Peterkin Papers • Lucretia P Hale
... his dressing station. Along from us a few hundred yards was the headquarters of a regiment, and many times during the sixteen days of battle, he and I watched them burying their dead whenever there was a lull. Thus the crosses, row on row, grew into a good-sized cemetery. Just as he describes, we often heard in the mornings the larks singing high in the air, between the crash of the shell and the reports of the guns in the battery just beside us. I have a letter from him in which he mentions having written the poem to ...
— In Flanders Fields and Other Poems - With an Essay in Character, by Sir Andrew Macphail • John McCrae
... wagon-house there grew a good-sized mountain ash or round-wood tree which nearly every fall was crowned with the usual great bright-red clusters of bitter berries. Late in October the robins always came for those berries, and sometimes a flock of fifty or sixty would assemble. We often tried to frighten the birds away, for the ...
— When Life Was Young - At the Old Farm in Maine • C. A. Stephens
... our camp is made, inside our tents we arrange the mosquito-bar (a tent within a tent looking something like a good-sized dog-kennel), and here we lie in our blankets. The hum of the foiled mosquito is unction to our souls. It is a relief, too, to remove the day's clothing, the first time in ...
— The New North • Agnes Deans Cameron
... Drive along slowly until you come to a tailor that has a shop, do you see? And a good-sized window, with waxwork figures in it to show off the goods. Then let me hear from ...
— A Voyage of Consolation - (being in the nature of a sequel to the experiences of 'An - American girl in London') • Sara Jeannette Duncan


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