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Definition: Sized |
SizedAdjective1. Having a specified size. 2. Having the surface treated or coated with sizing. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "sized" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1813. (references) |
| Antonym: unsized (adj). (additional references) |
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Lyrics | I sized up my thighs and couldn't let go (Get Me Home; performing artist: FOXY) You've got it all, you've got it sized (Imitation of Life; performing artist: R.E.M.) | |
Clever | Examination of genitalia reveals that he is circus sized. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Fable of All That Triangle Stuff As Sized Up by the Meal Ticket (1917) | |
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This trophozoite is contained within a normal sized RBC. The compact cytoplasm contains a large quantity of chromatin, often producing a band formation. Towards the end of the trophozoite stage, the parasite replicates its DNA. Credit: CDC. | This mature P. malariae schizont is contained within a normal sized RBC. The parasite contains 6-12 merozoites with large nuclei, and has a coarse, dark brown pigment. Credit: CDC. | ||
This growing trophozoite is contained within a normal sized RBC. The parasite is developing larger chromatin, and is forming a more compact cytoplasm. Credit: CDC. | ![]() | Golf ball sized hail. Credit: National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL). | |
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| "Elephant Graveyard 2" by Thomas Hamlyn-Harris Commentary: "In an unfinished and abandoned themepark in rural china the local farmers reclaimed the land. Vegetables were grown in the cement and fibreglass replicas of Europes famous holiday destinations. life sized fibre glass elephants were pushed over and made i" | "Big Ass Cross" by Luke Partridge Commentary: "Silly sized, 100 foot, cross. ." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
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Health | They make inappropriately sized and spaced letters, or write wrong or misspelled words, despite thorough instruction. (references) | |
Possible exceptions to this recommendation include premenopausal women with tumors less than 10 mm in size who wish to avoid the symptoms of estrogen deprivation or elderly women with similarly sized cancers who have a history of venous thromboembolic episodes. (references) | ||
Business | This is especially true when considering sales to small and medium sized farms. (references) | |
With the economic recession such regulation would be an extra burden for small and medium sized firms. (references) | ||
This resource is intended to help the micro, small and medium sized firms promote international trade. (references) | ||
Economic History | Brazil | Note that firms considered medium sized have less than 500 employees. (references) |
Argentina | Clones are used mainly in small and medium sized firms and in the home market. (references) | |
Netherlands | A large number (over 220) of small and medium sized suppliers characterizes the industry. (references) | |
Political Economy | NETHERLANDS | Subsidies are also available to stimulate research and development and to encourage development and use of new technologies by small and medium sized firms. (references) |
FINLAND | The system of business subsidies consists of three forms of subsidies, i.e. investment aid, development aid for small and medium sized enterprises, and aid for the operating environment of businesses. (references) | |
Trade | Argentina | The majority of users are small and medium sized firms (SMEs), but large corporations are also clients. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Sized" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 75.18% of the time. "Sized" is used about 274 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 75.18% | 206 | 21,208 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 12.41% | 34 | 59,261 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 12.04% | 33 | 60,273 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.36% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 274 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "sized": middle sized ♦ one sized ♦ sized ice ♦ sized paper ♦ top sized paper. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "sized": average-sized, ball-sized, bite-sized, buzzard-sized, card-sized, child-sized, decent-sized, dog-sized, egg-sized, equally-sized, equal-sized, equivalent-sized, escort-sized, even-sized, fair-sized, family-sized, fist-sized, football-sized, giant-sized, good-sized, hand-sized, house-sized, human-sized, large-sized, marble-sized, micro-sized, middle-sized, mid-sized, moderate-sized, modestly-sized, modest-sized, nome-sized, normal-sized, notebook-sized, olympic-sized, over-sized, pea-sized, postcard-sized, poster-sized, quarto-sized, reasonably-sized, same-sized, similarly-sized, similar-sized, smaller-sized, small-sized, sparrow-sized, stamp-sized, standard-sized, suitably-sized, wallet-sized, wall-sized, walnut-sized, woman-sized. | |
Containing "sized": full-sized car, large-sized company, medium-sized business, medium-sized industry. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "sized"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | në madhësi natyrore (life size, life-sized), i mesëm (average, high school, medium, mesial, middle sized, secondary), i madhësisë mesatare (middle sized). (various references) | |
Arabic | متوسط الحجم (middle sized). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | със среден размер (middle sized). (various references) | |
Chinese | 估量. (various references) | |
Danish | stykis (sized ice), stor-udvikler (generator using carbide in definite sized packages), slettet kæde (sized warp), overfladelimet papir (surface-sized paper, top sized paper), mellemstor bedrift (medium sized farm), limet papir (pasted paper, sized paper). (various references) | |
Dutch | stukken ijs (sized ice), oppervlakte-gelijmd papier (surface-sized paper, top sized paper), ontwikkelaar die de inhoud van een vat carbid kan bevatten (generator using carbide in definite sized packages), nagelijmd papier (surface-sized paper, top sized paper), middelgrote stadt (medium sized town), middelgroot bedrijf (medium sized farm), gelijmd papier (coated paper, pasted paper, sized paper), eruptie-afsluiters van het ramtype bevatten pijpramelementen die zijn afgestemd op de diameter van de gebruikte boorpijp (ram blowout preventers contain pipe rams sized to fit the drill pipe being used). (various references) | |
Finnish | samankokoinen (similarly sized, the same size), palajää (sized ice), liimattu paperi (sized paper), liima-aineella vahvistettu pohjakangas (sized backing), keskikokoinen tila (medium sized farm). (various references) | |
French | ouvert (one sized), chaîne parée (sized warp), charbon calibré (sized coal), charbons classés (sized coal), coke calibré (sized coke), de taille moyenne (middle sized), dossier apprêté (sized backing), exploitation moyenne (medium sized farm), generateur a fut (generator using carbide in definite sized packages), glace calibrée (sized ice), chaîne encollée (sized warp), les obturateurs à mâchoires comportent des mâchoires pour fermeture sur tiges d'un diamètre adapté aux tiges de forage utilisées (ram blowout preventers contain pipe rams sized to fit the drill pipe being used), ville moyenne (medium sized town), papier collé (sized paper), papier collé à la cuve (top sized paper), papier collé en bac (top sized paper), papier collé en surface (top sized paper), papier encollé (sized paper), rechange à côtes spéciales (sized spare part), technologie DLP (which is best suited for large images - from about 42" diagonal on up to movie-theatre sized screens - and can be directly compared to similarly-capable projectors that use CRTs or LCDs), texture ouverte/à (one sized), traitement numérique de la lumière (which is best suited for large images - from about 42" diagonal on up to movie-theatre sized screens - and can be directly compared to similarly-capable projectors that use CRTs or LCDs), largement dimensionné (generous size/of, liberal sized). (various references) | |
German | maß aus (gauged). (various references) | |
Greek | έχων μέγεθοσ. (various references) | |
Hebrew | בינוני בגודל (middle sized). (various references) | |
Hungarian | életnagyságú (as large as life, full length, life size, life-size, life-sized). (various references) | |
Italian | i preventers a ganasce portano ganasce il cui diametro si adatta alle aste di perforazione da usare (ram blowout preventers contain pipe rams sized to fit the drill pipe being used), ghiaccio calibrato (sized ice), generatore a fusti (generator using carbide in definite sized packages), catena imbozzimata (sized warp), carta collata (sized paper), azienda media (medium sized farm). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 中型 (medium sized). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ちゅうがた (medium size, medium sized). (various references) | |
Korean | 치수를 재는. (various references) | |
Manx | glooit (glued). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | izedsay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | teia encolada (sized warp), papel colado (sized paper), gelo calibrado (sized ice), exploração média (medium sized farm). (various references) | |
Romanian | mare (acred, adult, ample, big, boundless, brine, broad, bulky, deep, dense, enormous, famous, fat, flux, foam, gorgeous, grand, grandiose, great, gross, hard, heavy, high, howling, huge, hulking, illustrious, immense, important, keen, king size, large, large scale, long, loose, major, man-sized, massy, mighty, open, pond, ponderous, pretty, renowned, rich, roomy, sea, sensible, severe, spacious, stupendous, tall, thick, thundering, vast, violent, voluminous, wide), de mãrime naturalã (life size, life-sized), de mãrime mijlocie (medium-sized, middle sized). (various references) | |
Russian | измерять измеренный. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | srednje veličine (middle sized), prirodne veličine (life size, life-sized). (various references) | |
Spanish | urdimbre parada (sized warp), urdimbre engomada (sized warp), urdimbre encolada (sized warp), repuesto de dimensiones especiales (sized spare part), papel encolado (sized paper), los obturadores de mordaza llevan mordazas de varilla de diametro adaptado al varillaje de perforacion utilizado (ram blowout preventers contain pipe rams sized to fit the drill pipe being used), granja de tamaño medio (medium sized farm), generador de bidón (generator using carbide in definite sized packages), explotación mediana (medium sized farm), explotación media (medium sized farm), de tamaño mediano (middle sized), de estatura mediana (middle sized). (various references) | |
Swedish | storleksändrade. (various references) | |
Thai | ซึ่งจัดกลุ่มตามขนาด (sizing). (various references) | |
Turkish | numaralı (numbered, size), ölçüsünde (size), ölçülü (careful, conservative, continent, demure, dimensional, level, measurable, measured, mensurable, moderate, restrained, size, sober, sober minded, temperate). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | середнього розміру (middle sized). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | có cỡ lớn (king-sized, sizable, sizeable). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "sized": apotheosized, capsized, deemphasized, downsized, emphasized, fantasized, hypothesized, metastasized, midsized, misemphasized, outsized, overemphasized, oversized, parenthesized, photosynthesized, reemphasized, resized, resynthesized, rightsized, supersized, synopsized, synthesized, underemphasized, undersized, unsized, varisized. (additional references) | |
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"Sized" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aized, cized, eized, izzet, mized, siced, Sied, siezed, siked, sisde, sisid, sixed, siza, sizar, sizet, sizey, sizid, sused, szec, szed. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "sized" (pronounced sī"zd) |
| 4 | s ī" z d | incised, oversized. |
| 3 | -ī" z d | advised, apprised, baptized, chastised, comprised, despised, devised, disguised, prized, revised, sensationalized, surmised, surprised, undisguised, unrevised, wised. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-i-s-z" | |
-1 letter: dies, ides, side, size, zeds. | |
-2 letters: die, dis, eds, ids, sei, zed. | |
-3 letters: de, ed, es, id, is, si. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-i-s-z" | |
+1 letter: azides, ditzes, dizens, seized. | |
+2 letters: dezincs, dizzies, doozies, doziest, iodizes, midsize, resized, sizzled, unsized. | |
+3 letters: anodizes, azotised, bedizens, capsized, denizens, deutzias, dialyzes, diazines, diazoles, disprize, disseize, ditziest, dizziest, downsize, doziness, drizzles, dualizes, idolizes, iodizers, midsized, odorizes, outsized, oxidizes, ozonides, ozonised, reseized, sodomize, spritzed, stylized, swizzled, unseized, zenaidas. | |
+4 letters: benzidins, deionizes, demonizes, deputizes, dialyzers, diazepams, dieselize, digitizes, dimerizes, disprized, disprizes, disseized, disseizes, disseizin, divinizes, dizziness, downsized, downsizes, faradizes, fluidizes, idealizes, idolizers, melodizes, misprized, nasalized, opsonized, oversized, oxidizers, rendzinas, salinized, sanitized, satirized, simonized, sinicized, soberized, sodomized, sodomizes, solarized, solecized, suberized, subsidize, surprized, thiazides, undersize, varisized, zedoaries, zemindars. | |
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