Sizing

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  • noun. A glaze or filler; size.
  • noun. Treatment of a fabric or other surface with size.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The act or process of applying size or preparing with size.
  • noun. Size prepared for use in any mechanical trade
  • noun. Any act or process indicated by size, verb
  • noun. Specifically, in university use:
  • noun. An order for extra food or drink from the buttery.
  • noun. Any article so ordered; a size.
  • noun. In mining, sorting the crushed or stamped ores into grains of various sizes, in order that a more perfect separation of the various mineral and metalliferous substances of which the ore is made up may afterward be effected by the use of such ore-dressing or separating apparatus as may be considered suitable for the purpose.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. Act of covering or treating with size.
  • noun. A weak glue used in various trades; size.
  • noun. The act of sorting with respect to size.
  • noun. The act of bringing anything to a certain size.
  • noun. Food and drink ordered from the buttery by a student.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A gelatinous glue for glazing or sizing canvas, paper, plaster or wood; often made from animal skins.
  • noun. paste
  • noun. food and drink ordered from the buttery by a student
  • verb. Present participle of size.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. any glutinous material used to fill pores in surfaces or to stiffen fabrics
  • Word Usage
    "“And by the same token many men who are most correct in sizing up the universe have been least great.”"
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    Hypernym
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    filler  
    Rhyme
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    Synonym
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    size  
    verb-stem
    size