size

Related to size: Effect size, Sample size
See:
  • about the size of it
  • all of a size
  • all shapes and sizes
  • beat (one) down to size
  • beat down to size
  • come in all shapes and sizes
  • cut (someone or something) down to size
  • cut down
  • cut down to size
  • cut somebody down to size
  • cut someone down to size
  • knock (one) down to size
  • of a size
  • person of size
  • pick on
  • pick on somebody your own size
  • pick on someone your own size
  • pick on your own size
  • size matters
  • size queen
  • size up
  • take (one) down to size
  • That’s about the size of it
  • that's about the size of it
  • try (something) for size
  • try (something) on for size
  • try on
  • try something for size
  • try something on for size
  • whittle (someone or something) down to size
  • whittle down to size
  • Why don't you pick on someone your own size?
References in classic literature
`And yet what a dear little puppy it was!' said Alice, as she leant against a buttercup to rest herself, and fanned herself with one of the leaves: `I should have liked teaching it tricks very much, if--if I'd only been the right size to do it!
Alices Adventures In Wonderland
The sheriff heard these opinions with great indignation; and when he completed the last arrangement for the division, by carrying with his own hands a trout of a large size, and placing it on four different piles in succession, as his vacillating ideas of justice required, gave vent to his spleen.
A few additional knots were laid on the grating, and the light penetrated to the bottom, Elizabeth then saw a fish of unusual size floating above small pieces of logs and sticks.
A fish of great size was transfixed by the barbed steel, and was very soon shaken from its impaled situation into the bottom of the canoe.
Pioneers
If we take on the one side, the elephant, [7] hippopotamus, giraffe, bos caffer, elan, certainly three, and probably five species of rhinoceros; and on the American side, two tapirs, the guanaco, three deer, the vicuna, peccari, capybara (after which we must choose from the monkeys to complete the number), and then place these two groups alongside each other, it is not easy to conceive ranks more disproportionate in size. After the above facts, we are compelled to conclude, against anterior probability, [8] that among the mammalia there exists no close relation between the bulk of the species, and the quantity of the vegetation, in the countries which they inhabit.
Dobrizhoffer [17] long ago was aware of there being two kinds of ostriches, he says, "You must know, moreover, that Emus differ in size and habits in different tracts of land; for those that inhabit the plains of Buenos Ayres and Tucuman are larger, and have black, white and grey feathers; those near to the Strait of Magellan are smaller and more beautiful, for their white feathers are tipped with black at the extremity, and their black ones in like manner terminate in white."
The Voyage of the Beagle
Accordingly one day my nurse carried me thither, but I may truly say I came back disappointed; for the height is not above three thousand feet, reckoning from the ground to the highest pinnacle top; which, allowing for the difference between the size of those people and us in Europe, is no great matter for admiration, nor at all equal in proportion (if I rightly remember) to Salisbury steeple.
Gullivers Travels
Instead of moving, you merely exercise some magic art of vanishing and returning to sight; and instead of any lucid description of your new World, you simply tell me the numbers and sizes of some forty of my retinue, facts known to any child in my capital.
Flatland
They were of the very largest size, their bodies being more than three feet in length, and the lower surface of their white wings glittering in the sunlight.
Every object around grew rapidly in size while they were looking at it.
Five Weeks in a Balloon
According to Nordstrom, it is asking its customers' favourite brands to fill the gaps in sizing and expand their size ranges by adding more zeros, 2's, 14's, 16's and 18's.
Nordstrom launches initiative to fill gaps in sizing in brands
Brain size relative to body size has been used by generations of scientists to predict an animal's intelligence.
Brain size relative to body size 'cannot clearly predict animal's intelligence'
The comprehensive survey, which was completed in 2002, was the first time size had been measured so broadly in the country since 1951.
Studying body size is key to fitting markets snugly
There is an extra long size 12 available that is 3 inches long.
Selecting the right needle: needles are tools, and we all tend to prefer different tools that work for us best. With needles you need to start by learning about sizes, lengths, and stiffness that works best for the common projects
The second sub-series includes a second garment type in at least two different sizes, namely a third garment size and a fourth garment size that is larger than the third garment size.
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