sized
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Adjective[edit]
sized (not comparable)
- Having a certain size. Usually used in combination with an adverb.
- A badly-sized pair of shoes.
- 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XVI, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
- The preposterous altruism too! […] Resist not evil. It is an insane immolation of self—as bad intrinsically as fakirs stabbing themselves or anchorites warping their spines in caves scarcely large enough for a fair-sized dog.
- 2013 June 1, “A better waterworks”, in The Economist[1], volume 407, number 8838, page 5 (Technology Quarterly):
- An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic the way real kidneys cleanse blood and eject impurities and surplus water as urine.
Hyponyms[edit]
- bite-sized
- car-sized
- Earth-sized
- fair-sized
- family-sized
- fun-sized
- good-sized
- king-sized
- large-sized
- life-sized
- man-sized
- medium-sized
- micro-sized
- middle-sized
- midsized
- mid-sized
- moon-sized
- party-sized
- pea-sized
- piano-sized
- pint-sized
- planet-sized
- plus-sized
- pocket-sized
- queen-sized
- refrigerator-sized
- small and medium-sized enterprise
- small or medium-sized enterprise
- small-sized
- super-sized
- Texas-sized
- travel-sized
- woman-sized
Verb[edit]
sized
- simple past and past participle of size