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語源 1

Attested since the 14th century, originally meant a “law or regulation that determines the amount to be paid”, from 中期英語 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 (literally “bigness”).

名詞

size (countable and uncountable, plural sizes)

1. The dimensions or magnitude of a thing; how big something is. [from 15th c.]

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

   • 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, […].

2. 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.

   What size are you? I mean, what size shoes do you take?

3. (graph theory) The number of edges in a graph. [from 20th c.]
4. (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

5. An instrument consisting of a number of perforated gauges fastened together at one end by a rivet, used for measuring the size of pearls
   • Edward H[enry] Knight (1877), “Size”, in Knight’s American Mechanical Dictionary. […], volumes III (REA–ZYM), New York, N.Y.: Hurd and Houghton […], →OCLC..
6. (US) Ellipsis of chili size (“hamburger served with chili con carne”).
7. (obsolete outside dialects) An assize. [from 14th c.]
   • 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society, published 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.

8. (obsolete) A regulation, piece of ordinance. [15th c.]
9. (obsolete) A regulation determining the amount of money paid in fees, taxes etc. [14th–18th c.]
10. (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

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)
  • → Min Nan: sài-suh
• → Korean: 사이즈 (saijeu)
• → Malay: saiz
• → Persian: سایز (sâyz)
• → Urdu: سائز (sāiz)

動詞

size (third-person singular simple present sizes, present participle sizing, simple past and past participle 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 or metal) in order to separate the finer from the coarser parts.
   3. (biochemistry) To separate different proteins by molecular weight.
      • 2024, Agilent Technologies, Protein Sizing with the Agilent ProteoAnalyzer System‎:

        However, SDS-PAGE consistently sized most of the proteins smaller than the ProteoAnalyzer, resulting in a larger percent difference between the two systems.

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 (date written), John Fletcher, William Shak[e]speare, The Two Noble Kinsmen: […], London: […] Tho[mas] Cotes, for Iohn Waterson;  […], published 1634, →OCLC, Act I, scene i, page 1:

     2. Queen. […] lend us a knee;
     But touch the ground for us no longer time
     Then a Doves motion, when the head's pluckt off:
     ell him if he i'th blood cizd field, lay swolne
     Showing the Sun his Teeth; grinning at the Moone
     What you would doe.

下位語

• (to adjust size): resize

語源 2

From 中期英語 syse, of unclear origin; related to Old Italian sisa (“a glue used by painters”), perhaps ultimately related to size / syse (“amount”), or perhaps shortened from assisa, from assiso (“to make to sit, to seat, to place”)

名詞

size (countable and uncountable, plural sizes)

1. 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.

2. Wallpaper paste.
3. The thickened crust on coagulated blood.
4. Any viscous substance, such as gilder's varnish.

派生語

• sizing

動詞

size (third-person singular simple present sizes, present participle sizing, simple past and past participle sized)

1. (transitive) To apply glue or other primer to a surface which is to be painted.
2. (transitive) To apply a thickening agent (such as cornstarch or gelatin) to warp threads to prevent abrasion or unraveling during weaving.
   • 2026, Elise Young, “Yagaa: Reviving Sericulture in Southern Mexico”, in Spin Off, volume L, number 1, pages 16-17:

     After spinning, the singles are either dyed for sale as thread or sized with cornstarch, woven into fabric, and sewn into garments and accessories that are dyed after completion.

参照

語源 3

名詞

size (plural sizes)

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

参考

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