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Sizing   /sˈaɪzɪŋ/   Listen
noun
Sizing  n.  
1.
Act of covering or treating with size.
2.
A weak glue used in various trades; size.


Sizing  n.  
1.
The act of sorting with respect to size.
2.
The act of bringing anything to a certain size.
3.
(Univ. of Cambridge, Eng.) Food and drink ordered from the buttery by a student.


verb
Size  v. t.  (past & past part. sized; pres. part. sizing)  To cover with size; to prepare with size.


Size  v. t.  
1.
To fix the standard of. "To size weights and measures." (R.)
2.
To adjust or arrange according to size or bulk. Specifically:
(a)
(Mil.) To take the height of men, in order to place them in the ranks according to their stature.
(b)
(Mining) To sift, as pieces of ore or metal, in order to separate the finer from the coarser parts.
3.
To swell; to increase the bulk of.
4.
(Mech.) To bring or adjust anything exactly to a required dimension, as by cutting.
To size up, to estimate or ascertain the character and ability of. See 4th Size, 4. (Slang, U.S.) "We had to size up our fellow legislators."


Size  v. i.  
1.
To take greater size; to increase in size. "Our desires give them fashion, and so, As they wax lesser, fall, as they size, grow."
2.
(Univ. of Cambridge, Eng.) To order food or drink from the buttery; hence, to enter a score, as upon the buttery book.





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"Sizing" Quotes from Famous Books



... it?" asked the astonished Phelan, sizing up the thief as the highest example of aristocratic elegance he had ever seen ...
— Officer 666 • Barton W. Currie
... whenever the great political parties have lined-up for their regular once-in-four-years' tussle, there would be found Henry H. Rogers, calm as a race-track gambler, "sizing-up" the entries, their weights and handicaps. Every twist and turn in the pedigrees and records of Republicans and Democrats are as familiar to him as the "dope-sheets" are to the gambler, for is he not at the receiving ...
— Frenzied Finance - Vol. 1: The Crime of Amalgamated • Thomas W. Lawson
... at all I was just sizing it up as pretty soft for a fellow like me to get this sort of stand-in with—with my boss. Gawd! me and Roth used to love each ...
— Every Soul Hath Its Song • Fannie Hurst
... across the table, nonchalantly "plastering the board." A little old lady, with an enormous bag, was thanking an elegant Spaniard for disposing her stake as she desired. Finger to lip, a tall Spanish girl in a large black hat was sizing her remaining counters with a faint frown. A very young couple, patently upon their honeymoon, were ...
— Jonah and Co. • Dornford Yates
... actual horse power will drive 305 hand mule spindles, with proportion of preparing machinery for the same; or 230 self-acting mule spindles with preparation; or 104 throstle spindles with preparation; or 10-1/2 power looms with common sizing. The throstles referred to are the common throstles spinning 34's twist for power loom weaving, and the spindles make 4000 turns per minute. The self-acting mules are Robert's, about one half spinning ...
— A Catechism of the Steam Engine • John Bourne


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