Betydning av size på norsk

• 0 how big or small sth is

  • Roses can be many different colors and sizes. Roser finnes i mange forskjellige farger og størrelser.

  • the size of the company’s workforce størrelsen på selskapets arbeidsstyrke

• 1 one of the standard measurements used in clothes and shoes

  • What size do you wear? Hvilken størrelse bruker du?

  • Do you have these shoes in a size ten? Har du disse skoene i nummer ti?

• 2 the fact of being large

  • Look at the size of that watermelon! Se hvor stor den vannmelonen er!

• 3 to study a situation or person carefully and form an opinion

  • I could see she was sizing me up. Jeg kunne se at hun målte meg med blikket.

• 4 largeness

  • an area the size of a football pitch

  • The size of the problem alarmed us.

• 5 one of a number of classes in which shoes, dresses etc are grouped according to measurements

  • I take size 5 in shoes.