English Dictionary

size

/saɪz/

verb

(transitive) To adjust the size of; to make a certain size. / (military) To take the height of men, in order to place them in the ranks according to their stature.

I need to size down this shirt.

意味（1）

(transitive) To adjust the size of; to make a certain size.

a statute […] to size weights, and measures

意味（2）

(military) To take the height of men, in order to place them in the ranks according to their stature.

意味（3）

(mining) To sift (pieces of ore or metal) in order to separate the finer from the coarser parts.

意味（4）

(transitive, colloquial) To approximate the dimensions, estimate the size of.

意味（5）

(intransitive) To take a greater size; to increase in size.

Our desires give them fashion, and so, / As they wax lesser, fall, as they size, grow.

意味（6）

(UK, Cambridge University, obsolete) To order food or drink from the buttery; hence, to enter a score, as upon the buttery book.

意味（7）

(transitive, obsolete) To swell; to increase the bulk of.

blood-sized field