Clog vs Size - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between clog and size

is that clog is a type of shoe with an inflexible, often wooden sole sometimes with an open heel while size is subject, topic.

As a verb clog

is to block or slow passage through (often with 'up' ).

clog

English

Noun

(en noun) (wikipedia clog)

A type of shoe with an inflexible, often wooden sole sometimes with an open heel.

Dutch people rarely wear clog s these days.

A blockage.

The plumber cleared the clog from the drain.

(UK, colloquial) A shoe of any type.

* 1987 , :

Withnail: I let him in this morning. He lost one of his clog s.

A weight, such as a log or block of wood, attached to a person or animal to hinder motion.

* Hudibras

As a dog by chance breaks loose, / And quits his clog .

* Tennyson

A clog of lead was round my feet.

That which hinders or impedes motion; an encumbrance, restraint, or impediment of any kind.

* Burke

All the ancient, honest, juridical principles and institutions of England are so many clogs to check and retard the headlong course of violence and oppression.

Derived terms

* clogs to clogs in three generations * pop one's clogs

Verb

To block or slow passage through (often with 'up' ).

Hair is clogging the drainpipe.

The roads are clogged up with traffic.

To encumber or load, especially with something that impedes motion; to hamper.

* Dryden

The wings of winds were clogged with ice and snow.

To burden; to trammel; to embarrass; to perplex.

* Addison

The commodities are clogged with impositions.

* Shakespeare

You'll rue the time / That clogs me with this answer.

size

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) ).

Noun

(en noun)

(obsolete, outside, dialects) An assize.

* 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.

(obsolete) A regulation determining the amount of money paid in fees, taxes etc.

(obsolete) A fixed standard for the magnitude, quality, quantity etc. of goods, especially food and drink.

* Shakespeare

to scant my sizes

The dimensions or magnitude of a thing; how big something is.

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(obsolete) A regulation, piece of ordinance.

A specific set of dimensions for a manufactured article, especially clothing.

(graph theory) A number of edges in a graph.

(figurative, dated) Degree of rank, ability, character, etc.

* L'Estrange

men of a less size and quality

* Jonathan Swift

the middling or lower size of people

An instrument consisting of a number of perforated gauges fastened together at one end by a rivet, used for measuring the size of pearls.

(Knight)

Synonyms

* See also

Verb

(siz)

To adjust the size of; to make a certain size.

* Francis Bacon

a statute to size weights, and measures

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.

(colloquial) To approximate the dimensions, estimate the size of.

To take a greater size; to increase in size.

* John Donne

Our desires give them fashion, and so, / As they wax lesser, fall, as they size , grow.

(UK, Cambridge University, obsolete) To order food or drink from the buttery; hence, to enter a score, as upon the buttery book.

(obsolete) To swell; to increase the bulk of.

(Beaumont and Fletcher)

Etymology 2

Old Italian , a glue used by painters, shortened from (assisa), from (assiso), to make to sit, to seat, to place.

Noun

(en noun)

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.

Verb

(siz)

To apply glue or other primer to a surface which is to be painted.