size

  • 51size — See die size engine size metric size rim size …

    Dictionary of automotive terms

  • 52size — [13] The etymological notion underlying size is of ‘settling’ something, of fixing an amount. The word is a curtailed version of assize, which went back ultimately to Latin assidēre, literally ‘sit beside someone’. By the time it reached English …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 53size — Кегль, Кегель (Size, Body size, Point size)     В металлическом наборе [металлические буквы для механического наборного оборудования] – размер литеры [буква в металле] по вертикали, включающий высоту буквы (очка [отпечаток литеры на бумаге,… …

    Шрифтовая терминология

  • 54-size — a suffixal use of size1 indicating something of size specified, as in king size, bite size …

  • 55size — [13] The etymological notion underlying size is of ‘settling’ something, of fixing an amount. The word is a curtailed version of assize, which went back ultimately to Latin assidēre, literally ‘sit beside someone’. By the time it reached English …

    Word origins

  • 56size of it — noun the actual state of affairs (Freq. 1) that s the size of the situation she hates me, that s about the size of it • Syn: ↑size • Usage Domain: ↑colloquialism • Hypernyms: ↑ …

    Useful english dictionary

  • 57size — See: CUT DOWN TO SIZE, PINT SIZE …

    Dictionary of American idioms

  • 58size up — {v.}, {informal} To decide what one thinks about (something); to form an opinion about (something). * /Give Joe an hour to size up the situation and he ll tell you what to do next./ * /Our coach went to New York to size up the team we ll face in… …

    Dictionary of American idioms

  • 59size — See: CUT DOWN TO SIZE, PINT SIZE …

    Dictionary of American idioms

  • 60size up — {v.}, {informal} To decide what one thinks about (something); to form an opinion about (something). * /Give Joe an hour to size up the situation and he ll tell you what to do next./ * /Our coach went to New York to size up the team we ll face in… …

    Dictionary of American idioms