sizeとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From Middle English syse, sise (“regulation, control, limit”), from Old French cise, sise, aphetism of assise (“assize”). Displaced native Middle English grete, grette (“size”) (from 古期英語 grīetu, grȳtu (“size, greatness”)).

名詞

size (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 sizes)

1. (obsolete outside dialects) An assize. [from 14th c.]
   • 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, page 560:

     I know you would have women above the law, but it is all a lye; I heard his lordship say at size, that no one is above the law.

2. (obsolete) A regulation determining the amount of money paid in fees, taxes etc. [14th-18th c.]
3. (obsolete) A fixed standard for the magnitude, quality, quantity etc. of goods, especially food and drink. [15th-17th c.]
   • c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene iv]:

     to scant my sizes

4. The dimensions or magnitude of a thing; how big something is. [from 15th c.]
   • 2013 July 20, “Welcome to the plastisphere”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:

     [The researchers] noticed many of their pieces of [plastic marine] debris sported surface pits around two microns across. Such pits are about the size of a bacterial cell. Closer examination showed that some of these pits did, indeed, contain bacteria, […].

   The size of the building seemed to have increased since I was last there.

5. (obsolete) A regulation, piece of ordinance. [15th c.]
6. A specific set of dimensions for a manufactured article, especially clothing. [from 16th c.]

   I don't think we have the red one in your size.

7. (graph theory) A number of edges in a graph. [from 20th c.]
8. (figuratively, dated) Degree of rank, ability, character, etc.
   • 1692, Roger L'Estrange, Fables of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists

     men of a less size and quality

   • 1720, Jonathan Swift, A Letter to a Young Clergyman

     the middle or lower size of people

9. An instrument consisting of a number of perforated gauges fastened together at one end by a rivet, used for measuring the size of pearls.

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同意語

• See also Thesaurus:size

下位語

派生語

関連する語

派生した語

• Chinese:
  • → Cantonese: size (saai1 si2)
• → Irish: saghas
• → Japanese: サイズ (saizu)
• → Korean: 사이즈 (saijeu)

動詞

size (三人称単数 現在形 sizes, 現在分詞 sizing, 過去形および過去分詞形 sized)

1. (transitive) To adjust the size of; to make a certain size.
   • 1622, Francis, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban [i.e. Francis Bacon], The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh, […], London: […] W[illiam] Stansby for Matthew Lownes, and William Barret, OCLC 1086746628:

     a statute […] to size weights, and measures

2. (transitive) To classify or arrange by size.
   1. (military) To take the height of men, in order to place them in the ranks according to their stature.
   2. (mining) To sift (pieces of ore または metal) in order to separate the finer from the coarser parts.
3. (transitive, colloquial) To approximate the dimensions, estimate the size of.
4. (intransitive) To take a greater size; to increase in size.
   • after 1633 (first published), John Donne, Farewell to Love

     Our desires give them fashion, and so,
     As they wax lesser, fall, as they size, grow.

5. (Britain, Cambridge University, obsolete) To order food or drink from the buttery; hence, to enter a score, as upon the buttery book.
6. (transitive, obsolete) To swell; to increase the bulk of.
   • 1613–1614, William Shakespeare; John Fletcher, “The Two Noble Kinsmen.”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1679, OCLC 3083972, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, かつ the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

     blood-sized field

下位語

• (to adjust size): resize

語源 2

From Middle English syse,^[1] of unclear origin;^[2] related to Old Italian sisa (“a glue used by painters”),^[3] perhaps ultimately related to size / syse (“amount”),^[2][3] or perhaps shortened from assisa, from assiso (“to make to sit, to seat, to place”)

名詞

size (複数形 sizes)

2. A thin, weak glue used as primer for paper or canvas intended to be painted upon.
3. Wallpaper paste.
4. The thickened crust on coagulated blood.
5. Any viscous substance, such as gilder's varnish.

動詞

size (三人称単数 現在形 sizes, 現在分詞 sizing, 過去形および過去分詞形 sized)

1. (transitive) To apply glue or other primer to a surface which is to be painted.

参照

参考

• Size in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)