Size

(noun.) the property resulting from being one of a series of graduated measurements (as of clothing); 'he wears a size 13 shoe'.

(noun.) the physical magnitude of something (how big it is); 'a wolf is about the size of a large dog'.

(noun.) a large magnitude; 'he blanched when he saw the size of the bill'; 'the only city of any size in that area'.

(noun.) the actual state of affairs; 'that's the size of the situation'; 'she hates me, that's about the size of it'.

(noun.) any glutinous material used to fill pores in surfaces or to stiffen fabrics; 'size gives body to a fabric'.

(verb.) make to a size; bring to a suitable size.

(verb.) sort according to size.

(verb.) cover or stiffen or glaze a porous material with size or sizing (a glutinous substance).

(adj.) (used in combination) sized; 'the economy-size package'; 'average-size house' .

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• Here Darwin observed crabs of monstrous size, with a structure which ena bled them to open the cocoanuts. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• Finally I put a rope to my trunk, which was about the size of a carpenter's chest, and started to pull this from the baggage-car to the passenger-car. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• A joint of any size could be soaked; the only thing was to give it plenty of time. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
• However the parts may differ in shape or size, their structure and composition are in general the same. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• They were about the size of those seen in old-fashioned country hotels for holding the wash-bowl and pitcher. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• The size of their following, the intensity of their demands are a fair index of what the statesman must think about. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• All unfortunate men of my size suffer from the heat, said the Count, refreshing himself gravely with a large green fan. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• He knew how to blow any sort of bridge that you could name and he had blown them of all sizes and constructions. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• Lubbock made drawings for me, with the camera lucida, of the jaws which I dissected from the workers of the several sizes. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• I read in th' papers every 'Sizes, every Sessions—and you read too—I know it! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• Cannon were made of all sizes and calibres, but were not arranged in battle with much precision. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Besides different forms and sizes he tried various materials of construction, and ultimately various means of propulsion. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• A long line of inventions has appeared especially adapted to break up and separate coal into different sizes. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• It was one or two sizes larger than those I had previously built. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Such an arrangement of wire is known as a helix or solenoid, and is capable of lifting or pulling larger and more numerous filings and even good-sized pieces of iron, such as tacks. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• That the small size of the egg is a real case of adaptation we may infer from the fact of the mon-parasitic American cuckoo laying full-sized eggs. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• The statues are all large; the palace is grand; the park covers a fair-sized county; the avenues are interminable. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• It is of no use trying him with anything less than a full-sized bread or proposing to him any joint in cut unless it is in the very best cut. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Both stood on one side, the tall junior behind the under-sized senior, looking forth carefully, so that they might not be visible from without. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• The felts were then removed, and the sheets were piled upon one another and again pressed, after which they were dried, sized, and finished. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• The idea is to break up the surface into various sized dots, as the various gradations of color on the original cannot be transferred by any other method to a sheet of copper and etched. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• It consists of a series of silk disks saturated with a sizing of plumbago and well dried. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Or this sizing may be applied to the pulp at the outset of the operation. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• When it is desired to give it a smooth, glossy surface, the paper, after its completion, is passed through animal sizing material, and then between drying and smoothing rollers. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Instead of helping the specific task of teaching, it prevents the use of ordinary judgment in observing and sizing up the situation. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.

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