sized
Adjective 1. Having a specified size: Used to describe something that has a particular, often standardized, dimension or magnitude. 2. Having the surface treated or coated with sizing: Used to describe a material, especially paper or fabric, that has been treated with a gelatinous or glutinous substance (called size) to glaze, fill pores, or add stiffness.
- The adjective sized is typically used after a word indicating the specific dimension (e.g., medium-sized, large-sized, pocket-sized). It can also be used alone to indicate the material has undergone a sizing treatment.
- When indicating a specified size, it often forms hyphenated compound adjectives (e.g., life-sized, king-sized).
- When referring to the treatment process, it is used more technically, often in manufacturing or crafting contexts.
Adjective (Having a specified size): * She bought a medium-sized shirt. * The artist created a life-sized sculpture of a horse. * This is a bite-sized piece of information, easy to understand.
Adjective (Treated with sizing): * The sized paper did not absorb the ink as quickly. * The canvas was sized with glue before the artist began to paint. * This fabric is specially sized to make it more rigid.
- "ill-sized" (archaic/potential usage): Poorly proportioned or of an unsuitable size.
- The ill-sized door made it difficult to move the furniture inside.
- "sized up": This is a phrasal verb form of the verb "to size," meaning to assess or evaluate. It is related but distinct from the adjective "sized."
- He sized up the competition before the match.
- -sized (suffix): The most common form, used to create compound adjectives describing size (e.g., pint-sized, family-sized, oversized).
- Size (n): The overall dimensions or magnitude of something.
- Size (v): 1. To alter or sort according to size. 2. To treat with size (the glutinous substance).
- Unsized (adj): Not treated with sizing; not having a specified or uniform size.
- For "having a specified size": dimensioned, proportioned, measured.
- For "treated with sizing": coated, glazed, stiffened (context-specific).
- For "having a specified size": unsized, variable, irregular.
- For "treated with sizing": unsized, raw, untreated.
- Come in all sizes: To be available in many different dimensions.
- These containers come in all sizes.
- To be sized for: To be made with dimensions appropriate for something/someone.
- The boots are sized for maximum comfort.
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having the surface treated or coated with sizing
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having a specified size
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