| 单词 | size |
| 释义 | size I. 1. dialect Britain 2. a. obsolete b. archaic 3. a. (1) < measure the size of a box > < trees of all sizes > < attain full size > (2) < boys all of a size > b. < the size of an order > < the size of her bank account > c. < few of the fish attain any size > < we saw no inhabited place of any size — Heinrich Harrer > < every town of size in the Balkans — Christian Science Monitor > 4. a. < a size 7 hat > < a shoe of size 4A > < size B pajamas > < khaki breeches about two sizes too big — Danforth Ross > < book sizes > < rope sizes > b. (1) < just fills this size of glass > < I prefer this size > (2) < shoe manufacturers make 72 sizes — Women's Wear Daily > c. 5. < the office demands a man of larger size > 6. a. < that's about the size of it > b. < cut his opponent down to size by skillful questioning > Synonyms: < a box two feet by three in size > < a house of small size > < the increase in the size of the reading public — Helen Sullivan > < his company … has expanded under his management thus far to twice its original size in the number of its employees — Current Biography > < the size of its power and potentialities — Rupert Emerson > < her remarkably clear and sweet voice is not of great size — New Yorker > dimensions (pl. of dimension, a measurement in a single direction, as in width) is a close synonym of size usu., however, implying more frequently an accurate measurement < compute the exact dimensions of a building lot > < this book suggests the dimensions of the modern tasks of the federal government and of its chief executive — J.M.Blum > < the dimensions of the artist's genius — Herbert Read > area applies to things measurable in two dimensions or directions only, for example, length and breadth (as of the surface of the ground or a floor) < a parking lot with an area of 1500 square yards > < other lakes … have an area of more than 10,000 acres — American Guide Series: Minnesota > < a relatively small population compared with the vast area served — Canada Year Book > extent chiefly applies to the measurement in one direction, usually length (as of a driveway), often applying to something conceived of as if it had length; sometimes, however, it is used interchangeably with area or size < estimate to the extent of the territory from east to west > < the full extent of its extreme northern boundary — American Guide Series: Arizona > < a wide extent of territory — C.D.Forde > < the extent of his vocabulary — C.D.Lewis > < underestimate the extent of an enemy's vindictiveness > magnitude, largely a mathematical and scientific term, may refer to size or two-dimensional extent or to something whose quantity, extent, or degree are expressible chiefly in mathematical figures < a star of small magnitude > < an earthquake of sizable magnitude — Mary W. Shelley > < a European catastrophe of a magnitude so appalling, and a scope so unpredictable — G.B.Shaw > volume, though sometimes close in meaning to size, usually refers to anything that can be measured in cubic measurements (as cubic feet) or is thought of in terms of cubic size < the expanding air increased considerably the volume of the balloon > < the volume of the box > < a voice of small volume > < the volume of bank reserves — G.L.Harrison > < a much greater volume of credit — Rafael De Haro > < the volume of commercial airline passenger traffic — H.G.Armstrong > • - for size - of a size II. transitive verb 1. archaic 2. archaic 3. a. < systems … sized to fit anybody's living room — advt > < these cars are sized to the human frame, not to the human ego — Lewis Mumford > < they're sized for bill enclosure use — Jewelers' Circular-Keystone > < they size clothes to fit, not for children to grow into — Mary B. Picken > < chutes for dropping supplies are sized according to the weight of the load they are meant to carry — O.J.Mink > b. 4. a. < copper and nickel powders … were sized by screening into the four ranges — Symposium on Powder Metallurgy > b. < women's rings may be sized to 10; men's to 14 — Sears, Roebuck Cat. > < sports shirts sized to fit — G. Fox & Co. Cat. > c. 5. < first to size the corps of cadets — W.H.Baumer > 6. < could feel her listening, sizing me — Joseph Hitrec > intransitive verb 1. archaic 2. < a yield that sized up very well with last year's > 3. III. 1. a. b. c. 2. IV. 1. 2. V. variant of sice VI. < has only a pond-size harbour — Christopher Rand > < conventional-size midtown blocks — Lewis Mumford > < the large economy-size box of a breakfast cereal > < bite-size candies > |
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