Definition of Size

Size

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

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

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

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

A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe.
George Eliot

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

The massive bulk of the earth does indeed shrink to insignificance in comparison with the size of the heavens.
Nicolaus Copernicus

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

There is probably an element of malice in our readiness to overestimate people - we are, as it were, laying up for ourselves the pleasure of later cutting them down to size.
Eric Hoffer