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SizeSize Size, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sized; p. pr. & vb. n.
Sizing.]
To cover with size; to prepare with size. Size
Size 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. --Donne.
2. (Univ. of Cambridge, Eng.) To order food or drink from the
buttery; hence, to enter a score, as upon the buttery
book.
SizeSize Size, n. [See Sice, and Sise.]
Six. SizeSize Size, v. t.
1. To fix the standard of. ``To size weights and measures.'
[R.] --Bacon.
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. --Beau. & Fl.
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. --The
Century. sizeAssize As*size", n. [OE. assise, asise, OF. assise, F.
assises, assembly of judges, the decree pronounced by them,
tax, impost, fr. assis, assise, p. p. of asseoir, fr. L.
assid?re to sit by; ad + sed[=e]re to sit. See Sit, Size,
and cf. Excise, Assess.]
1. An assembly of knights and other substantial men, with a
bailiff or justice, in a certain place and at a certain
time, for public business. [Obs.]
2. (Law)
(a) A special kind of jury or inquest.
(b) A kind of writ or real action.
(c) A verdict or finding of a jury upon such writ.
(d) A statute or ordinance in general. Specifically: (1) A
statute regulating the weight, measure, and
proportions of ingredients and the price of articles
sold in the market; as, the assize of bread and other
provisions; (2) A statute fixing the standard of
weights and measures.
(e) Anything fixed or reduced to a certainty in point of
time, number, quantity, quality, weight, measure,
etc.; as, rent of assize. --Glanvill. --Spelman.
--Cowell. --Blackstone. --Tomlins. --Burrill.
Note: [This term is not now used in England in the sense of a
writ or real action, and seldom of a jury of any kind,
but in Scotch practice it is still technically applied
to the jury in criminal cases. --Stephen. --Burrill.
--Erskine.]
(f) A court, the sitting or session of a court, for the
trial of processes, whether civil or criminal, by a
judge and jury. --Blackstone. --Wharton. --Encyc.
Brit.
(g) The periodical sessions of the judges of the superior
courts in every county of England for the purpose of
administering justice in the trial and determination
of civil and criminal cases; -- usually in the plural.
--Brande. --Wharton. --Craig. --Burrill.
(h) The time or place of holding the court of assize; --
generally in the plural, assizes.
3. Measure; dimension; size. [In this sense now corrupted
into size.]
An hundred cubits high by just assize. --Spenser.
[Formerly written, as in French, assise.]
Meaning of Sizes from wikipedia
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sizes, as with the
creation of
clothing sizes and shoe
sizes, and with the
standardization of door
frame dimensions,
ceiling heights, and bed
sizes....
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Sizing or
size is a
substance that is
applied to, or
incorporated into,
other materials—especially
papers and textiles—to act as a
protective filler or...
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standard for
paper sizes. Each ISO
paper size is one half of the area of the next
larger size in the same series. ISO
paper sizes are all
based on a single...
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Standard bed
sizes are
based on
standard mattress sizes,
which vary from
country to country. Bed
sizes also vary
according to the
size and
degree of ornamentation...
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Clothing sizes are the
sizes with
which garments sold off-the-shelf are labeled.
Sizing systems vary
based on the
country and the type of garment, such...
- or more
letters that
indicate the
breast cup
size. Bra cup
sizes were
invented in 1932
while band
sizes became po****r in the 1940s. For convenience,...
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pointe ballet shoe
sizes, and last
length in
European Paris point sizes (although such
converted Stichmaß
sizes may come 1⁄2 to 1
size smaller than comparable...
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fractional inch and
gauge drill bit
sizes are in
common use. In
nearly all
other countries,
metric drill bit
sizes are most common, and all
others are...
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research (where
size of
treatment effect is important).
Effect sizes may be
measured in
relative or
absolute terms. In
relative effect sizes, two
groups are...
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imply that
someone believes that
their size is
superior to that of
other people and
treat people of
other sizes negatively.
Examples of
sizeist discrimination...
