-sized

Definition

size 1 /saÇz/ n ၁။ [U,C] အရြယ္။ ပမာဏ။ It's about the size of a matchbox. ❍ What's the size of your garden? ❍ an area the size of Scotland ❍ The house is just the right size for us. ❍ Flowerpots come in all shapes and sizes. ❍ Size isn't important; it's the quality that counts. ❍ ( Brit ) They're both of a size (ie about the same size). ၂။ [U,sing] (ႀကီးမားေသာ)ပမာဏ။ The sheer size of the place is impressive. ❍ It was a house of some size (ie a fairly large one). ❍ I couldn't believe the size of his debts. ၃။ [C] စံအတိုင္းအတာ။ (သတ္မွတ္)အရြယ္အစား။ ဆိုက္(အႀကီး၊ အေသး၊ နံပါတ္စသည္)။ It's the right/wrong size for me. ❍ a size fifteen collar ❍ an economy/a family/a large size packet of cereal ❍ I take size nine shoes. ❍ You need a smaller size. ❍ Try this one for size (ie to see if it is the right size). v ပမာဏကို တိုင္းဆသည္။ ❏ cut sb down to size [ IDM ] အေျခာက္တိုက္ အထင္တစ္ခြဲသားႀကီးေနသူကို အျမင္မွန္ရေစသည္။ ❏ sizeable (also sizable ) /-ǝbl/ adj အေတာ္အတန္ ႀကီးမား ေသာ။ a sizeable town ❍ Coming first in the race was, for him, a sizeable achievement. ❏ -sized (also -size ) (forming compound adjs ) …အရြယ္(ရိွေသာ)။ a medium-sized garden ❍ a handy-sized dictionary ❍ cut sth into equal-sized pieces. See also PINT-SIZED ❏ size sb/sth up [ PHRV ] ( infml ) အကဲျဖတ္သည္။ သံုးသပ္ သည္။ We sized each other up at our first meeting. ❍ He sized up the situation very quickly. size 2 /saÇz/ n [U] ခ်ည္၊ စကၠဴ စသည္ အေရာင္တင္ေကာ္ရည္။ v ေကာ္တင္သည္။

Examples

1. [size of] : An engine size of 2000 cc
2. Moscow’s metro system is less than half the size of New York’s.
3. [reduce/increase the size of something] : The president has promised to reduce the size of the army.
4. [in size] : After six months the tumour had doubled in size.
5. [cut something to size] : The boards should be cut to size and nailed into place.
6. [full size] : The plants should reach full size in about four years.
7. [all shapes and sizes] : Beauty comes in all shapes and sizes.
8. What size shoes do you take?
9. [a larger/smaller size] : Do you have this skirt in a larger size?
10. [size 8/10/12 etc] : This dress is a size 12.
11. The sheer size of the organization makes communication difficult.