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size

/saɪz/ nom A1

En français : taille

  1. The dimensions or magnitude of a thing; how big something is. (countable, uncountable) · The size of the building seemed to have increased since I was last there.· That size hail can be a killer!
  2. A specific set of dimensions for a manufactured article, especially clothing. (countable, uncountable) · I don't think we have the red one in your size.· What size are you? I mean, what size shoes do you take?
  3. The number of edges in a graph. (countable, uncountable)
  4. Degree of rank, ability, character, etc. (countable, dated, figuratively, uncountable)
  5. An instrument consisting of a number of perforated gauges fastened together at one end by a rivet, used for measuring the size of pearls (countable, uncountable)

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However when the summer returned again, he lay asleep stretched at his full length and appeared to himself to be of a great size.
Three Hundred Aesop's Fables, p. 83 · B2
A LION, greatly desiring to capture a Bull, and yet afraid to attack him on account of his great size, resorted to a trick to ensure his destruction.
Three Hundred Aesop's Fables, p. 76 · B2
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.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 25 · C1
AT ONE TIME a very large and strong Wolf was born among the wolves, who exceeded all his fellow-wolves in strength, size, and swiftness, so that they unanimously decided to call him “Lion.” The Wolf, with a lack of sense proportioned to his enormous size, thought that they gave him this name in earnest, and, leaving his own race, consorted exclusively with the lions.
Three Hundred Aesop's Fables, p. 64 · B2

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