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Sized

Definition: Sized

Sized

Adjective

1. 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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Crosswords: Sized

English words defined with "sized": clove, clove treeDrawing paperEngine-sized, Eugenia aromaticum, Eugenia caryophyllatumpocket edition, pocketbook, prostate, prostate glandrelational databaseSyzygium aromaticumWriting paper. (references)
Specialty definitions using "sized": acyclic feeding, Advance Arrangements, AMD 29000BEAD STRINGER, block sort, body makercannage, CARPET CUTTER, cartridge streamer, COAL WASHER, coal-washer tender, COKE INSPECTOR, cone settler, cyclone underflowdegradation screens, DESIGNER AND PATTERNMAKER, diamond wheel, digital light processing, digital light processor technology, director of data processing, director of information systems, DLP technologyEconomies of sizeFLOCKER, flowsheet, fuel briquetteGROUND LAYERHalf-tone, high usage circuit groupion sieve separationLAST-PATTERN GRADERmanager-EDP systems, master-pattern maker, microspar, mine run, model maker, Montgomery jigpizzo, planer operator, preparation plantquick sort, quicksortRUG-DRY-ROOM ATTENDANTSarcoma, Kaposi, SCREEN OPERATOR, serim, SHADE-CLOTH FINISHER, shadowing factor, shaker-screen operator, sized paper, SIZING-MACHINE TENDER, SIZING-MACHINE-AND-DRIER OPERATOR, sketching paper, SLASHER TENDER, SOCKET PULLER, sponge iron powder, streaming tape drive, subsieve material, sugar-tube method, sulfite paper, sulfite wrapping paper, sulphite paper, sulphite wrapping paper, surface-sized papertear drop, teariness, TIMBER-SIZER OPERATOR, tobacco cloth, top sized paper, typewriting paperunsized papervibrating-screen operator, Vissac jigwash-box operator, washer operator, wet-out. (references)

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Modern Usage: Sized

DomainUsage

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)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Sized

DomainTitle

Books

  • Conformational Analysis of Medium Sized Heterocycles (reference)

  • Arthur's Boo Boo Book: With Peel-Off Stickers for First Aid Fun! (Medium Sized Flap Book W/Stickers/Marc Brown's Arthur) (reference)

  • Iso 9001:2000 for Small and Medium Sized Businesses (reference)

  • Arthur Decks the Hall: With Flaps to Flip and Stickers to Stick (Medium Sized Board Book With Stickers and Flaps , No 2) (reference)

  • Full Size Lampshade Patterns for Mini to Medium Sized Shades (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  • Recommended Reference Books For Small & Medium Sized Librari (reference)

    (more periodical examples)

  

Theater & Movies

  

Music

  

High Tech

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Sized

Computer Images:
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Photo Album: Sized

ThumbnailDescription & CreditThumbnailDescription & Credit

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).

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Digital Photo Gallery: Sized
 

"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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Non-Fiction Usage: Sized

SubjectTopicQuote

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.

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Usage Frequency: Sized

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)75.18%20621,208
Lexical Verb (past participle)12.41%3459,261
Lexical Verb (past tense)12.04%3360,273
Noun (proper)0.36%1339,140
                    Total100.00%274N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Sized

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.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Sized

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

poster sized

53

average sized penis

9

picture poster sized

45

plus sized swimsuit

9

plus sized lingerie

41

plus sized

9

photo poster sized

39

bra sized swimsuit

8

plus sized clothing

33

doll female life sized

8

bra sized swim wear

23

small and medium sized business

8

plus sized clothes

19

bathing cup s sized suit that woman

8

sized toe ring

19

queen sized bed

7

heirloom post and steel full queen and king sized bed

19

plus sized fashions

7

medium sized dog

19

odd sheet sized

7

bed canopy elite finial full king open queen sized

18

hail sized volleyball

7

buxton palm sized wallet

15

gown plus sized wedding

6

plus sized swim wear

14

large sized shoes

6

plus sized dress

11

apartment refrigerator sized

6

model plus sized

11

plus sized womens clothes

6

plus sized womens clothing

11

dress plus sized wedding

6

king sized bed

10

clothing plus sized teen

6

plus sized bra

10

sized

6

plus sized maternity clothes

10

breed dog medium sized

6

plus sized woman

10

plus sized woman lingerie

5
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Sized

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.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Sized

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)


Misspellings

"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).

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Rhyming with "Sized"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "sized" (pronounced sī"zd)
4s ī" z dincised, oversized.
3-ī" z dadvised, apprised, baptized, chastised, comprised, despised, devised, disguised, prized, revised, sensationalized, surmised, surprised, undisguised, unrevised, wised.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Sized

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Slideshow
6. Images: Photo Album
7. Images: Digital Art
8. Quotations: Non-fiction
9. Usage Frequency
10. Expressions
11. Expressions: Internet
12. Translations: Modern
13. Derivations
14. Rhymes
15. Anagrams
16. Bibliography


  

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