size
/saɪz/ verb C2- To adjust the size of; to make a certain size.
- To take the height of men, in order to place them in the ranks according to their stature.
- To sift (pieces of ore or metal) in order to separate the finer from the coarser parts.
- To separate different proteins by molecular weight.
- To approximate the dimensions, estimate the size of.
- To take a greater size; to increase in size.
He/she/it sizes · Past sized · Past participle sized · -ing form sizing
Verb forms
- Base form
- size
- He/she/it
- sizes
- Past
- sized
- Past participle
- sized
- -ing form
- sizing
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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ROAMING BY the mountainside at sundown, a Wolf saw his own shadow become greatly extended and magnified, and he said to himself, “Why should I, being of such an immense size and extending nearly an acre in length, be afraid of the Lion?
Then they began to pass around the dusky, piquant, Arlesian sausages, and lobsters in their dazzling red cuirasses, prawns of large size and brilliant color, the echinus with its prickly outside and dainty morsel within, the clovis, esteemed by the epicures of the South as more than rivalling the exquisite flavor of the oyster, North.
However when the summer returned again, he lay asleep stretched at his full length and appeared to himself to be of a great size.
Before them stood a little man about the same size as the Munchkins.
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