Index vs Size - What's the difference?
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An alphabetical listing of items and their location.
The index finger; the forefinger.
A movable finger on a gauge, scale, etc.
(printing) A symbol resembling a pointing hand, used to direct particular attention to a note or paragraph.
That which points out; that which shows, indicates, manifests, or discloses.
* Arbuthnot
A sign; an indication; a token.
* Robert Louis Stevenson
(linguistics) A type of noun where the meaning of the form changes with respect to the context. E.g., 'Today's newspaper' is an indexical form since its referent will differ depending on the context. See also icon and symbol.
(economics) A single number calculated from an array of prices or of quantities.
(science) A number representing a property or ratio, a coefficient.
(mathematics) A raised suffix indicating a power.
(programming, computing) An integer or other key indicating the location of data e.g. within an array, vector, database table, associative array, or hash table.
(computing, databases) A data structure that improves the performance of operations on a table.
(obsolete) A prologue indicating what follows.
To arrange an index for something, especially a long text.
To inventory, to take stock.
(obsolete, outside, dialects) An assize.
* 1749 , Henry Fielding, Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, page 560:
(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
The dimensions or magnitude of a thing; how big something is.
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, title= (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
* Jonathan Swift
An instrument consisting of a number of perforated gauges fastened together at one end by a rivet, used for measuring the size of pearls.
To adjust the size of; to make a certain size.
* Francis Bacon
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
(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.
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.
To apply glue or other primer to a surface which is to be painted.
Index is a related term of size.
As nouns the difference between index and size
is that index is index while size is subject, topic.index
English
(wikipedia index)Noun
(en-noun)- The index of a book lists words or expressions and the pages of the book upon which they are to be found.
- Tastes are the indexes of the different qualities of plants.
- His son's empty guffaws struck him with pain as the indices of a weak mind.
- (Shakespeare)
Synonyms
* (index finger) arrow-finger, demonstrator, forefinger, index finger, insignitor, lickpot, pointling, showing finger, teacher * See alsoDerived terms
* index locorum * index nominum * index rerum * index term * index verborum * indexic * indexical * indexless * price index * refractive indexReferences
*See also
* (alphabetical listing) table of contentsVerb
(es)Derived terms
* indexerExternal links
* *size
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) ).Noun
(en noun)- 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.
- to scant my sizes
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- men of a less size and quality
- the middling or lower size of people
- (Knight)
Synonyms
* See alsoVerb
(siz)- a statute to size weights, and measures
- Our desires give them fashion, and so, / As they wax lesser, fall, as they size , grow.
- (Beaumont and Fletcher)