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Definitions in simple English

size

How big or small a thing is. These shirts come in four sizes: small, medium, large, and extra large.

size

To measure the size of. They sized him for a new suit. His shoulders measured 25 inches across.

size

the physical magnitude of something (how big it is) a wolf is about the size of a large dog the property resulting from being one of a series of graduated measurements (as of clothing) he wears a size 13 shoe (used in combination) sized the economy-size package average-size house a large magnitude he blanched when he saw the size of the bill the only city of any size in that area (= size of it) the actual state of affairs that's the size of the situation she hates me, that's about the size of it (= sizing) any glutinous material used to fill pores in surfaces or to stiffen fabrics size gives body to a fabric make to a size; bring to a suitable size cover or stiffen or glaze a porous material with size or sizing (a glutinous substance) sort according to size

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Conjugation size conjugation

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size · verb

Examples size examples

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Simple sentences

What's your shoe size?
Do you have these shoes in my size?
This size is too large for me.
Size does not matter.
What size do you take?
Size does matter.
Sometimes, size does matter.
It's not size that matters.
It's not size that matters. It's how you use it.
Your room is twice the size of mine.
What size shoes do you wear?
We arranged the books according to size.
Do you have a larger size?
They are all of a size.
They are more or less the same size.
It's about the size of an egg.
Your book is double the size of mine.
Your camera is only half the size of mine.
Our class has increased in size.
Do you have a smaller size?

Movie subtitles

The ravages of the Black Death, the bubonic plague that had devastated Europe in the early 1 4th century, had reduced the city's population to around 40,000, less than a 20th the size of Nanjing's.
That's ten times the size of the Santa Maria, the ship that columbus sailed across the atlantic Ocean in 1 492.
You should have seen the size of them.
I'm child-size. I'm a puppy.
Well, I've learned in all my travels all the cities, no matter what size has a hidden gem.
We can go up or down a size if need be.
One of them opens his umbrella to compare its size with the mushroom, but the umbrella suddenly takes root and transforming itself into a mushroom starts growing attaining gigantic proportions.
But of course, all property owners will be allowed to vote on the size of their pipe.
Well, Mildred, you certainly have doubled in size since last I saw you.
All you gotta do when you deliver a good shipment. is size up the layout and let me know.
No, same size.
These may not be exactly your size but at least they're dry.
And I never did see a ship this size with such a crew.
Look at the size of that thing.
One can ask whether they realised the size of such an undertaking.
In the direction perpendicular to the disc the size was much smaller, of the order of 7,000 light years.
Barely 30,000 men vs. 3 million Arabs in a country 3 times the size of France.
Well, you certainly have doubled in size since last I set eyes on you, Mildred.
Why all this talk about this voyage being crazy? Everybody around the docks is talking about the cargo, for one thing. And I never did see a ship this size with such a crew.
Look at the size of that.
My sofa is about that size.
Normal size has been my difficulty.
You did achieve size.
It ain't the size that counts, youngster. It's the salt in the lads that man it.
That's an awful big number for a birdcage this size.
YEAH, THAT'S A MISPRINT. WE JUST WANTED HIM TO APPROVE IT FOR SIZE.
They were huge! You should have seen the size of them.
I'm child-size.
I didn't even know it was here. Well, I've learned in all my travels all the cities, no matter what size has a hidden gem.
You get your ass to the most expensive bridal boutique you can find right now, pull out your credit card and get something in a size six that is beautiful and magical and will make everyone cry, you horrendous excuse for a person!
Long, slender and artistic, and a diamond ring the size of a small potato on the right little finger.
Well, that's the smallest size we carry.
And I hope some Norman sword whittles you down to size!
You should've seen the parasol that came with it. - About the size of a pie. - Ohh!
I'm afraid we have no boxes of that size in the vault.
Just three people in a room this size?
They came in all shapes and sizes, from little, crawling horrors about the size of a chicken to hundred-ton nightmares.
There's a brook and a small lake no size, really and a patch of woods, and in any kind of weather it's the most wonderful.

News and current affairs

One estimate puts the cumulative spills over the past 50 years at approximately 10 million barrels - twice the size of the BP spill.
Parliament's rejection of US troops powerfully refutes suggestions that Turkey was primarily concerned about the size of the American aid package on offer as an inducement to cooperate.
Most developed countries already have a tax of this size (and often much larger) on electricity and fossil fuels, although this also incorporates the costs of air pollution and supply insecurity.
So the fierce debate over whether to increase the size of American ground forces in Iraq is beside the point.
Our energy companies service a territory the size of France; they will all be privatized.
Borrowing costs are rising for highly indebted sovereigns, credit rationing is undermining small and medium-size companies, and falling commodity prices are reducing exporting countries' income.
The purchases in Africa alone amount to an area of agricultural land the size of Kenya.
Recently, the IMF proposed a new global tax on financial institutions loosely in proportion to their size, as well as a tax on banks' profits and bonuses.
A few years earlier, as America rushed to lock up ever more of its population for ever-pettier offenses, the absolute size of its incarcerated population surpassed that of China - despite China's population being more than four times that of America.
To be sure, it maintained a navy equal in size to the next two fleets combined, and its empire, on which the sun never set, ruled over a quarter of humankind.
And it is very possible that Philippon's estimate of the size of the US financial sector's hypertrophy is too small.
Many residual strengths take on greater importance in such a world, and America remains the world's only true superpower and its largest economy - still more than twice the size of China's.
Even this limited version would constitute progress; most of the gains arise from removing the red tape that complicates cross-border establishment of small and medium-size service enterprises and limits competition in broad sectors of the economy.
What the latest findings demonstrate is that crucial parts of the world's climate system, though massive in size, are so fragile that they can be irremediably disrupted by human activity.
There is in fact no inherent conflict, once we understand that what matters for growth in developing countries is not the size of their trade surpluses, nor even the volume of their exports.
Even in long-established democracies, candidates for elective office are not evaluated according to their wisdom and leadership, but according to the size of their campaign war chests.
Quite apart from their concerns about the robustness of the rebound in the economy, investors are uncertain about many financial firms' business models, and about the future size, shape, and profitability of the financial sector in general.
The number of literary translations done nowadays in the United States is, according to a United Nations report, equal to that of Greece, a country one-tenth the size.
And the opaque Ecuadorian methods are not possible in Europe, both for legal reasons and because a transaction of this size could hardly be disguised or outsourced.
Governments at the epicenter of the recent financial crisis, especially the United States and the United Kingdom, are downright enthusiastic, particularly about the tax on size.
There need to be increased funds available to support small and medium-size enterprises - the main source of job creation in all economies - which is especially important, given that credit contraction by banks hits these enterprises especially hard.
The IMF is on much weaker ground, however, in thinking that its one-size-fits-all global tax system will somehow level the playing field internationally.
The Union for the Mediterranean, launched by French President Nicolas Sarkozy in 2008, must be revitalized and re-directed towards development projects ranging from highways and ports to the promotion of small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs).

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