Heel vs Size - What's the difference?

heel | size |

As a proper noun heel

is a part of maasgouw in the netherlands.

As a noun size is

subject, topic.

heel

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) hele, heel, from (etyl) . More at (l).

Noun

(en noun)

(anatomy) The rear part of the foot, where it joins the leg.

* Denham

He [the stag] calls to mind his strength and then his speed, / His winged heels and then his armed head.

The part of a shoe's sole which supports the foot's heel.

The rear part of a sock or similar covering for the foot.

(firearms) The back upper part of the stock.

The last or lowest part of anything; as, the heel of a mast'' or ''the heel of a vessel .

* A. Trollope

the heel of a hunt

(US, Ireland) A crust end-piece of a loaf of bread.

* Sir Walter Scott

the heel of the white loaf

(US) The base of a bun sliced in half lengthwise.

* 1996 , Ester Reiter, Making Fast Food: From the Frying Pan Into the Fryer (page 100)

The bottom half, or the bun heel is placed in the carton, and the pickle slices spread evenly over the meat or cheese.

A contemptible, inconsiderate or thoughtless person.

(slang, professional wrestling) A wrestler whose on-ring persona embodies villainous or reprehensible traits. Contrast with babyface.

* 1992 , Bruce Lincoln, Discourse and the Construction of Society (page 158)

Freedman began his analysis by noting two important facts about professional wrestling: First, that heels triumph considerably more often than do babyfaces

(card games) The cards set aside for later use in a patience or solitaire game.

Anything regarded as like a human heel in shape; a protuberance; a knob.

(architecture) The lower end of a timber in a frame, as a post or rafter. Specifically, (US), the obtuse angle of the lower end of a rafter set sloping.

(architecture) A cyma reversa; so called by workmen.

(Gwilt)

(carpentry) the short side of an angled cut

Antonyms

* (angled cut in carpentry) toe

Derived terms

* Achilles heel * bring someone to heel * cool one's heels * dig in one's heels * down at heel * head over heels * heelside * heel-and-toe * high heels * hot on somebody's heels * kick one's heels * kick up one's heels * kitten heel * Tar Heel * stiletto heel * spike heel * take to one's heels * turn on one's heel * well-heeled

Verb

(en verb)

To follow at somebody's heels; to chase closely.

To add a heel to, or increase the size of the heel of (a shoe or boot).

To kick with the heel.

To perform by the use of the heels, as in dancing, running, etc.

* Shakespeare

I cannot sing, / Nor heel the high lavolt.

To arm with a gaff, as a cock for fighting.

Etymology 2

Alteration of earlier heeld, from (etyl) heelden, from (etyl) hyldan, ). More at (l).

Verb

(en verb)

To incline to one side, to tilt (especially of ships).

Noun

(en noun)

The act of inclining or canting from a vertical position; a cant.

The ship gave a heel to port.

Synonyms

* (l)

Anagrams

* English terms with multiple etymologies ----

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.