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size
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sa?z/
- Rhymes: -a?z
- Homophones: psis, sighs
Etymology 1
From Middle English syse, sise (“regulation, control, limit”), from Old French cise, sise, aphetism of assise (“assize”). Displaced native Middle English grete, grette (“size”) (from Old English gr?etu, gr?tu (“size, greatness”)).
Noun
size (countable and uncountable, plural sizes)
- (obsolete outside dialects) An assize. [from 14th c.]
- 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, page 560:
- I know you would have women above the law, but it is all a lye; I heard his lordship say at size, that no one is above the law.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, page 560:
- (obsolete) A regulation determining the amount of money paid in fees, taxes etc. [14th-18th c.]
- (obsolete) A fixed standard for the magnitude, quality, quantity etc. of goods, especially food and drink. [15th-17th c.]
- The dimensions or magnitude of a thing; how big something is. [from 15th c.]
- (obsolete) A regulation, piece of ordinance. [15th c.]
- A specific set of dimensions for a manufactured article, especially clothing. [from 16th c.]
- (graph theory) A number of edges in a graph. [from 20th c.]
- (figuratively, dated) Degree of rank, ability, character, etc.
- 1692, Roger L'Estrange, Fables of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists
- men of a less size and quality
- 1720, Jonathan Swift, A Letter to a Young Clergyman
- the middle or lower size of people
- 1692, Roger L'Estrange, Fables of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists
- An instrument consisting of a number of perforated gauges fastened together at one end by a rivet, used for measuring the size of pearls.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Knight to this entry?)
- (computing) file size
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:size
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
- Chinese:
- ? Cantonese: size (saai1 si2)
- ? Irish: saghas
- ? Japanese: ??? (saizu)
- ? Korean: ??? (saijeu)
Translations
Verb
size (third-person singular simple present sizes, present participle sizing, simple past and past participle sized)
- (transitive) To adjust the size of; to make a certain size.
- a statute […] to size weights, and measures
- (transitive) To classify or arrange by size.
- (military) To take the height of men, in order to place them in the ranks according to their stature.
- (mining) To sift (pieces of ore or metal) in order to separate the finer from the coarser parts.
- (transitive, colloquial) To approximate the dimensions, estimate the size of.
- (intransitive) To take a greater size; to increase in size.
- after 1633 (first published), John Donne, Farewell to Love
- Our desires give them fashion, and so, / As they wax lesser, fall, as they size, grow.
- after 1633 (first published), John Donne, Farewell to Love
- (Britain, Cambridge University, obsolete) To order food or drink from the buttery; hence, to enter a score, as upon the buttery book.
- (transitive, obsolete) To swell; to increase the bulk of.
- blood-sized field
Hyponyms
- (to adjust size): resize
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English syse, of unclear origin; related to Old Italian sisa (“a glue used by painters”), perhaps ultimately related to size / syse (“amount”), or perhaps shortened from assisa, from assiso (“to make to sit, to seat, to place”)
Noun
size (plural sizes)
- A thin, weak glue used as primer for paper or canvas intended to be painted upon.
- Wallpaper paste.
- The thickened crust on coagulated blood.
- Any viscous substance, such as gilder's varnish.
Translations
Verb
size (third-person singular simple present sizes, present participle sizing, simple past and past participle sized)
- (transitive) To apply glue or other primer to a surface which is to be painted.
Translations
References
See also
- Size in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
Chinese
Alternative forms
- ??, ??
Etymology
Borrowed from English size.
Pronunciation
Noun
size
- (Cantonese) size
- ???????????????size????????????????????????????????size? [Cantonese, trad.]
- From: 2015, ???, ??? ???, ?????, issue 40, page 79
- jau5 jat1 go3 so4 zai2 zeng6 jan4 sin1 jung6 sing4-2 dok6 zi6 gei2 goek3 dik1 saai1 si2, jau5 jat1 jat6 soeng2 maai5 haai4, bat1 gwo3 heoi3 dou3 si5 zaap6 sin1 faat3 jin6 zi6 gei2 mou5 daai3 tiu4 sing4-2, so2 ji5 m4 zi1 maai5 haai4 maai5 me1 saai1 si2. [Jyutping]
- There was a stupid guy from Zheng who used only a string to measure the size of his feet; one day, he wanted to buy shoes, but only when he got to the market did he realize that he didn't bring his string, so he didn't know what shoe size to buy.
???????????????size????????????????????????????????size? [Cantonese, simp.]- ??????????????????size??? [Cantonese, trad.]
- From: 2016, Jerald Li, ??????size??15?????size??
- ging1 soeng4 zoi6 mong5 soeng6 gin3 dou3-2 jau5 jan4 man6 sam6 mo1 bo1 haai4 jing1 “maai5 me1 saai1 si2 hou2?” [Jyutping]
- I always see people online asking something like "What size should I buy?" for sneakers
???????????????“??size??” [Cantonese, simp.]- ?????size???????? [Cantonese, trad.]
- From: 2016, ??? (Daniel Chong), ????CEO, page 104
- daai3 zyu6 deoi3 m4 ngaam1 saai1 si2 ge3 baak6 sik1 lou4 gung1 sau2 tou3 zai2 [Jyutping]
- wearing white workers' gloves of the wrong size
?????size???????? [Cantonese, simp.]
Synonyms
- ?? (ch?cùn)
Turkish
Pronoun
size
- dative of siz (you – plural or polite)
Turkmen
Noun
size
- dative plural of siz
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time
English
Alternative forms
- tyme (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English tyme, time, from Old English t?ma (“time, period, space of time, season, lifetime, fixed time, favourable time, opportunity”), from Proto-Germanic *t?mô (“time”), from Proto-Indo-European *deh?im?, from Proto-Indo-European *deh?y- (“to divide”). Cognate with Scots tym, tyme (“time”), Alemannic German Zimen, Z?mmän (“time, time of the year, opportune time, opportunity”), Danish time (“hour, lesson”), Swedish timme (“hour”), Norwegian time (“time, hour”), Faroese tími (“hour, lesson, time”), Icelandic tími (“time, season”). Related with tide. Not related with Latin tempus.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, Canada, US) enPR: t?m, IPA(key): /ta?m/, [t?a?m]
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /t?em/
- (Can we verify(+) this pronunciation?) (Tasmanian) IPA(key): /t??m/
- Rhymes: -a?m
- Hyphenation: time
- Homophone: thyme
Noun
time (countable and uncountable, plural times)
- (uncountable) The inevitable progression into the future with the passing of present and past events.
- 1937, Delmore Schwartz, Calmly We Walk Through This April's Day
- Time is the fire in which we burn.
- (physics, usually uncountable) A dimension of spacetime with the opposite metric signature to space dimensions; the fourth dimension.
- 1895, H.G. Wells, The Time Machine, ?ISBN, page 35
- So long as I travelled at a high velocity through time, this scarcely mattered; I was, so to speak, attenuated — was slipping like a vapour through the interstices of intervening substances!
- 2010, Brian Greene, The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory, W. W. Norton & Company ?ISBN, page 204
- We all have a visceral understanding of what it means for the universe to have multiple space dimensions, since we live in a world in which we constantly deal with a plurality — three. But what would it mean to have multiple times? Would one align with time as we presently experience it psychologically while the other would somehow be "different"?
- 1895, H.G. Wells, The Time Machine, ?ISBN, page 35
- (physics, uncountable) Change associated with the second law of thermodynamics; the physical and psychological result of increasing entropy.
- 2012, Robert Zwilling, Natural Sciences and Human Thought, Springer Science & Business Media ?ISBN, page 80
- Eventually time would also die because no processes would continue, no light would flow.
- 2015, Highfield, Arrow Of Time, Random House ?ISBN
- Given the connection between increasing entropy and the arrow of time, does the Big Crunch mean that time would run backwards as soon as collapse began?
- 2012, Robert Zwilling, Natural Sciences and Human Thought, Springer Science & Business Media ?ISBN, page 80
- (physics, uncountable, reductionistic definition) The property of a system which allows it to have more than one distinct configuration.
- 1937, Delmore Schwartz, Calmly We Walk Through This April's Day
- A duration of time.
- (uncountable) A quantity of availability of duration.
- 1661, John Fell, The Life of the most learned, reverend and pious Dr. H. Hammond
- During the whole time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the whole course of philosophy, he read over in a manner all classic authors that are extant […]
- 1661, John Fell, The Life of the most learned, reverend and pious Dr. H. Hammond
- (countable) A measurement of a quantity of time; a numerical or general indication of a length of progression.
- 1938, Richard Hughes, In Hazard
- The shock of the water, of course, woke him, and he swam for quite a time.
- 1938, Richard Hughes, In Hazard
- (uncountable, slang) The serving of a prison sentence.
- (countable) An experience.
- (countable) An era; (with the, sometimes in plural) the current era, the current state of affairs.
- 63 BC, Cicero, First Oration against Catiline (translation)
- O the times, O the customs!
- 1601, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
- The time is out of joint
- 63 BC, Cicero, First Oration against Catiline (translation)
- (uncountable, with possessive) A person's youth or young adulthood, as opposed to the present day.
- (only in singular, sports and figuratively) Time out; temporary, limited suspension of play.
- (uncountable) A quantity of availability of duration.
- An instant of time.
- (uncountable) How much of a day has passed; the moment, as indicated by a clock or similar device.
- (countable) A particular moment or hour; the appropriate moment or hour for something (especially with prepositional phrase or imperfect subjunctive).
- (countable) A numerical indication of a particular moment.
- (countable) An instance or occurrence.
- 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)
- One more time.
- One more time.
- 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)
- (Britain, in public houses) Closing time.
- The hour of childbirth.
- She was within little more than one month of her time.
- (as someone's time) The end of someone's life, conceived by the speaker as having been predestined.
- It was his time.
- (uncountable) How much of a day has passed; the moment, as indicated by a clock or similar device.
- (countable) The measurement under some system of region of day or moment.
- (countable) Ratio of comparison.
- (grammar, dated) Tense.
- 1823, Lindley Murray, Key to the Exercises Adapted to Murray's English Grammar, Fortland, page 53f.:
- Though we have, in the notes under the thirteenth rule of the Grammar, explained in general the principles, on which the time of a verb in the infinitive mood may be ascertained, and its form determined; [...]
- 1829, Benjamin A. Gould, Adam's Latin Grammar, Boston, page 153:
- The participles of the future time active, and perfect passive, when joined with the verb esse, were sometimes used as indeclinable; thus, [...]
- 1823, Lindley Murray, Key to the Exercises Adapted to Murray's English Grammar, Fortland, page 53f.:
- (music) The measured duration of sounds; measure; tempo; rate of movement; rhythmical division.
- some few lines set unto a solemn time
Usage notes
For the number of occurrences and the ratio of comparison, once and twice are typically used instead of one time and two times. Thrice is uncommon but not obsolescent, and is still common in Indian English.
Typical collocations with time or time expressions.
- spend - To talk about the length of time of an activity.
- - We spent a long time driving along the motorway.
- - I've spent most of my life working here. (Time expression)
- take - To talk about the length of time of an activity.
- - It took a long time to get to the front of the queue. See also - take one's time
- - It only takes five minutes to get to the shop from here. (Time expression)
- - How long does it take to do that? (Time expression)
- waste - see waste time
Quotations
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:time.
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
- Sranan Tongo: ten
Translations
See time/translations § Noun.
Verb
time (third-person singular simple present times, present participle timing, simple past and past participle timed)
- To measure or record the time, duration, or rate of.
- I used a stopwatch to time myself running around the block.
- To choose when something begins or how long it lasts.
- The President timed his speech badly, coinciding with the Super Bowl.
- The bomb was timed to explode at 9:20 p.m.
- There is surely no greater wisdom than well to time the beginnings and onsets of things.
- (obsolete) To keep or beat time; to proceed or move in time.
- 1861, John Greenleaf Whittier, At Port Royal
- With oar strokes timing to their song.
- 1861, John Greenleaf Whittier, At Port Royal
- (obsolete) To pass time; to delay.
- To regulate as to time; to accompany, or agree with, in time of movement.
- 1717, Joseph Addison, Metamorphoses
- Who overlooked the oars, and timed the stroke.
- 1717, Joseph Addison, Metamorphoses
- To measure, as in music or harmony.
Synonyms
- (to measure time): clock
- (to choose the time for): set
Derived terms
Translations
Interjection
time
- (tennis) Reminder by the umpire for the players to continue playing after their pause.
- The umpire's call in prizefights, etc.
- A call by a bartender to warn patrons that the establishment is closing and no more drinks will be served.
See also
- calendar
- temporal
- Timese
References
- time on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Further reading
- Time in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
- Time (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- METI, emit, it me, item, mite
Danish
Etymology 1
From Old Norse tími, from Proto-Germanic *t?mô (“time”), cognate with Swedish timme, English time. From Proto-Indo-European *deh?y-, specifically Proto-Indo-European *deh?im?. The Germanic noun *t?diz (“time”) is derived from the same root.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ti?m?/, [?t?i?m?]
Noun
time c (singular definite timen, plural indefinite timer)
- hour
- lesson, class
Inflection
References
- “time,1” in Den Danske Ordbog
Etymology 2
Borrowed from English time.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tajm?/, [?t??jm?], (imperative) IPA(key): /taj?m/, [?t??j?m],
Verb
time (past tense timede, past participle timet)
- to time
Inflection
References
- “time,2” in Den Danske Ordbog
Esperanto
Etymology
From tim- +? -e.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?time/
- Rhymes: -ime
Adverb
time
- fearfully
Latin
Verb
tim?
- second-person singular present active imperative of time?
References
- time in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old French thym.
Noun
time
- Alternative form of tyme (“thyme”)
Etymology 2
From Old English t?ma.
Noun
time
- Alternative form of tyme (“time”)
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Old Norse tími, from Proto-Germanic *t?mô (“time”), from Proto-Indo-European *deh?y-, specifically Proto-Indo-European *deh?im?.
Noun
time m (definite singular timen, indefinite plural timer, definite plural timene)
- an hour
- a lesson, class
Derived terms
References
- “time” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Old Norse tími, from Proto-Germanic *t?mô (“time”), from Proto-Indo-European *deh?im?, from *deh?y- (“to share, divide”). Akin to English time.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /²ti?m?/
Noun
time m (definite singular timen, indefinite plural timar, definite plural timane)
- an hour
- a lesson, class
- an appointment
- time, moment (mainly poetic)
- 1945, Jakob Sande, "Da Daniel drog":
- No er timen komen, Daniel!
- Now the time has come, Daniel!
- No er timen komen, Daniel!
- 1945, Jakob Sande, "Da Daniel drog":
Derived terms
References
- “time” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old Swedish
Etymology
From Old Norse tími, from Proto-Germanic *t?mô.
Noun
t?me m
- time
- hour
- occasion
Declension
Descendants
- Swedish: timme
- ? Finnish: tiima
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from English team, from Middle English teme, from Old English t?am (“child-bearing, offspring, brood, set of draught animals”), from Proto-Germanic *taumaz (“that which draws or pulls”), from Proto-Germanic *taugijan?, *tug?n?, *teuh?n?, *teuhan? (“to lead, bring, pull, draw”), from Proto-Indo-European *dewk- (“to pull, lead”).
Pronunciation
- (South Brazil) IPA(key): /?t??i.me/
- Hyphenation: ti?me
Noun
time m (plural times)
- (Brazil, chiefly sports) a team
- Synonyms: (Portugal) equipa, (Brazil) equipe
- (Brazil, informal) sexual orientation
Scots
Noun
time (plural times)
- time
Spanish
Verb
time
- First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of timar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of timar.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of timar.
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