Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having a particular or specified size. Often used in combination.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having size: in its composition; covered or washed with size.
- Having a particular size, magnitude, extent, proportions, etc.: occurring usually in compounds: as, fair sized, middle-sized, etc.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Adjusted according to size.
- adjective Having a particular size or magnitude; -- chiefly used in compounds.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having a certain
size . Usually used in combination with an adverb - verb Simple past tense and past participle of
size .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having a specified size
- adjective having the surface treated or coated with sizing
Etymologies
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Examples
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They are these tiny little plastic beads (think a little bigger than the head of a pin, seriously) that kids put onto tiny pin sized pegs to make patterns.
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I was talking to an inspector for the DNR and she said a farmer had a pin sized hole in a sump pump hose that he was using to pump water out of a local river.
Is it safe to eat fish especially catfish from farm ponds that hold runoff from crop fields? 2009
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They take a minute amount of bad things and blow them up to mountain sized proportions.
Obama challenges reform detractors to explain themselves 2009
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I have been recently down sized from a mining company and my wife is a teacher who has taken a sabbatical.
looking to find a suitable location (school) near Guadalajara to spend a year with kids 2009
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I was talking to an inspector for the DNR and she said a farmer had a pin sized hole in a sump pump hose that he was using to pump water out of a local river.
Is it safe to eat fish especially catfish from farm ponds that hold runoff from crop fields? 2009
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His eyes followed the ever changing pin sized patchwork as he considered how small they were from this great height ... how impersonal ... how unaware.
Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Frank Murdock’s Review Forum 2009
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The ideal way to make multi-layered cupcakes is to have a cupcake tin sized smaller than the base cupcake.
I made tiered cupcakes! Anne-Marie 2007
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The ideal way to make multi-layered cupcakes is to have a cupcake tin sized smaller than the base cupcake.
Archive 2007-10-01 Anne-Marie 2007
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That empty room save for the twin sized mattress on the floor as well as the missing sofa in my sitting room, the ugly, uncomfortable green chair in the family room and the dining room table are evidence that the Big Top is a wee bit emptier today.
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That empty room save for the twin sized mattress on the floor as well as the missing sofa in my sitting room, the ugly, uncomfortable green chair in the family room and the dining room table are evidence that the Big Top is a wee bit emptier today.
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