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Definition of size verb from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

size

verb
 
/saɪz/
 
/saɪz/
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they size
 
/saɪz/
 
/saɪz/
he / she / it sizes
 
/ˈsaɪzɪz/
 
/ˈsaɪzɪz/
past simple sized
 
/saɪzd/
 
/saɪzd/
past participle sized
 
/saɪzd/
 
/saɪzd/
-ing form sizing
 
/ˈsaɪzɪŋ/
 
/ˈsaɪzɪŋ/
Phrasal Verbs
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    give size

  1. [usually passive] to mark the size of something; to give a size to something
    • be sized (in something) The screws are sized in millimetres.
  2. change size

  3. [usually passive] to change the size of something
    • be sized The fonts can be sized according to what effect you want.
  4. make sticky

  5. size something to cover something with a sticky substance called size
  6. Word Originverb Middle English (also in the sense ‘assize, ordinance fixing a rate of payment’): from Old French sise, from assise ‘ordinance’, or a shortening of assize (see assizes).
See size in the Oxford Advanced American DictionarySee size in the Oxford Learner's Dictionary of Academic English
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adverb
 
 
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