sizeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

Attested since the 14th century, originally meant a “law or regulation that determines the amount to be payed”, from Middle English syse, sise (“regulation, control, limit”), from Old French cise, sise, aphetism of assise (“assize”), from the verb asseoir (“to sit down”), from Latin assidēre, composed of ad- (“to, towards, at”) +‎ sedeō (“sit; settle down”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sed-. Displaced native 古期英語 miċelnes (字義どおりに “bigness”).

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 […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iv]:

     to scant my sizes

4. The dimensions or magnitude of a thing; how big something is. [from 15th c.]
   • 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Normandy SR-1:

     Ashley: Look at the size of that ship!
     Kaidan: The Ascension. Flagship of the Citadel fleet.
     Joker: Well, size isn't everything.
     Ashley: Why so touchy, Joker?
     Joker: I'm just saying you need firepower, too.

   • 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. (figurative, dated) Degree of rank, ability, character, etc.
   • 1692, Roger L’Estrange, “ (please specify the fable number.) (please specify the name of the fable.)”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], →OCLC:

     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
   • 1874, Edward H. Knight, American Mechanical Dictionary.

同意語

• See also Thesaurus:size

下位語

派生語

関連する語

派生した語

• → Cantonese: size (saai1 si2)
• → Irish: saghas
• → Japanese: サイズ (saizu)
• → Korean: 사이즈 (saijeu)
• → Malay: saiz
• → Persian: سایز‎ (sâyz)
• → Urdu: سائز‎ (sāiz)

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:

     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. (UK, 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, (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 (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 sizes)

2. A thin, weak glue used as primer for paper or canvas intended to be painted upon.
   • 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 40:

     The beginning of a new episode of work for Bradly was an agitated niggling over six-by-four squares of cardboard coated with size and white lead, prepared by himself to save an experimental waste of canvas.

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

名詞

size (複数形 sizes)

1. Alternative form of sice (“number six in dice games”)

参考

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