size

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. The physical dimensions, proportions, magnitude, or extent of an object.
2. n. Any of a series of graduated categories of dimension whereby manufactured articles, such as shoes and clothing, are classified.
3. n. Considerable extent, amount, or dimensions: a debt of enormous size.
4. n. Relative amount or number, as of population or contents: What size is Cleveland?
5. n. Character, value, or status with reference to relative importance or the capacity to meet given requirements: Try this proposal on for size.
6. n. The actual state of affairs: That's about the size of the situation.
7. v. To arrange, classify, or distribute according to size.
8. v. To make, cut, or shape to a required size.
9. adj. Sized. Often used in combination: bite-size appetizers; an economy-size package.
10. size up To make an estimate, opinion, or judgment of: She sized up her opponent.
11. n. Any of several gelatinous or glutinous substances usually made from glue, wax, or clay and used as a glaze or filler for porous materials such as paper, cloth, or wall surfaces.
12. v. To treat or coat with size or a similar substance.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A fixed rate regulating the weight, measure, price, or proportion of any article, especially food or drink; a standard. See assize, n., 2.
2. n. A specified or fixed amount of food and drink; a ration.
3. n. Hence, in university use, a charge made for an extra portion of food or drink; a farthing, as the former price of each portion. The word was also used more generally, to note any additional expense incurred.
4. n. A portion allotted by chance or fate; a share; a peculiar or individual allotment.
5. n. Grade of quality or importance; rank; class; degree; order.
6. n. Rate of dimension, whether linear, square, or solid; material proportions; relative magnitude; now the usual sense.
7. n. One of a regularly increasing series of dimensions used for manufactured articles which are bought ready-made; specifically, as used by shoemakers, one third of an inch in length.
8. n. Extent, or volume, or magnitude in other respects, as of time, sound, or effort.
9. n. plural A session of a court of justice; assizes. See assize, 6.
10. n. An implement for measuring pearls, consisting of a number of thin leaves pierced with holes of different diameters, and fastened together. The test is made by observing how many of the holes the pearl will pass through.
11. n. Synonyms Size, Magnitude, Bulk, Volume. Size is the general word for things large or small. In ordinary discourse magnitude applies to large things; but it is also an exact word, and is much used in science: as, a star of the fourth magnitude. Bulk suggests noticeable size, especially size rounding out into unwieldiness. Volume is a rather indefinite word, arising from the idea of rolling a thing up till it attains size, though with no especial suggestion of shape. We speak of the magnitude of a calamity or of a fortune, the bulk of a bale of cotton or of an elephant, the volume of smoke or of an avalanche.
12. To regulate the weight, measure, extent, value, etc., of; fix the rate or standard of; assize.
13. At Cambridge and other universities, to obtain (food or drink) in extra portions at a fixed rate of charge; hence, in general, to buy at a fixed rate; purchase.
14. To supply with sizes; hence, to fill or otherwise affect by sizes or portions.
15. To rate; rank.
16. To estimate or ascertain the size of; measure; hence, by extension, to arrange in groups or ranks according to dimensions.
17. To separate or sort according to size. Specifically
18. At Cambridge and other universities, to give an order (for food or drink) over and above the usual commons: generally with for. Compare battel.
19. n. A gelatinous wash used by painters, by paper-manufacturers, and in many industrial arts It is made of the shreds and parings of leather, parchment, or vellum, boiled in water and purified; also from common glue, from potatoes, and from scraps and clippings of hides, horns, hoofs, etc. The finest is made in Russia from sturgeons' sounds or air-bladders, and is known as isinglass. That used for writing-paper is made of gelatin prepared from leather and parchment clippings. A clear solution of isinglass is used for sizing plate-paper intended to receive impressions in color. For printing-papers the usual size is a compound of alum and resin dissolved in a solution of soda, and combined with potato-starch. Starch alone is also used as a size. E. H. Knight.
20. n. A material resembling size, but of different origin, and used for its tenacity as a preparation for gilding and the like.
21. n. A glutinous printing-ink made to receive and retain the bronze-powder of gold or silver which is dusted on it.
22. n. In physiology, the buffy coat observed on the surface of coagulated blood in certain conditions.
23. n. In brickmaking, plasticity, as of the clay before burning.
24. To cover with size; prepare with size; stiffen by means of size.
25. To smear over with any substance acting like size: occurring chiefly in compounds.
26. To render plastic: said of clay.
27. n. Same as sice.
28. To cut or trim to the size required.

Wiktionary

1. v. transitive To adjust the size of; to make a certain size.
2. v. transitive To classify or arrange by size.
3. v. transitive, colloquial To approximate the dimensions, estimate the size of.
4. v. intransitive To take greater size; to increase in size.
5. v. UK, obsolete To order food or drink from the buttery; hence, to enter a score, as upon the buttery book.
6. n. A thin, weak glue used as primer for paper or canvas intended to be painted upon.
7. n. Wallpaper paste.
8. n. The thickened crust on coagulated blood.
9. v. transitive To apply glue or other primer to a surface which is to be painted.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. Six.
2. n. A thin, weak glue used in various trades, as in painting, bookbinding, paper making, etc.
3. n. Any viscous substance, as gilder's varnish.
4. v. To cover with size; to prepare with size.
5. n. obsolete A settled quantity or allowance. See assize.
6. n. (Univ. of Cambridge, Eng.) An allowance of food and drink from the buttery, aside from the regular dinner at commons; -- corresponding to battel at Oxford.
7. n. Extent of superficies or volume; bulk; bigness; magnitude.
8. n. Figurative bulk; condition as to rank, ability, character, etc..
9. n. A conventional relative measure of dimension, as for shoes, gloves, and other articles made up for sale.
10. n. An instrument consisting of a number of perforated gauges fastened together at one end by a rivet, -- used for ascertaining the size of pearls.
11. v. rare, rare To fix the standard of.
12. v. To adjust or arrange according to size or bulk.
13. v. (Mil.) To take the height of men, in order to place them in the ranks according to their stature.
14. v. (Mining) To sift, as pieces of ore or metal, in order to separate the finer from the coarser parts.
15. v. To swell; to increase the bulk of.
16. v. (Mech.) To bring or adjust anything exactly to a required dimension, as by cutting.
17. v. To take greater size; to increase in size.
18. v. (Univ. of Cambridge, Eng.) To order food or drink from the buttery; hence, to enter a score, as upon the buttery book.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. the property resulting from being one of a series of graduated measurements (as of clothing)
2. v. sort according to size
3. n. the physical magnitude of something (how big it is)
4. v. make to a size; bring to a suitable size
5. adj. (used in combination) sized
6. n. a large magnitude
7. n. the actual state of affairs
8. v. cover or stiffen or glaze a porous material with size or sizing (a glutinous substance)
9. n. any glutinous material used to fill pores in surfaces or to stiffen fabrics