Olive vs Size - What's the difference?
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An evergreen tree, , cultivated since ancient times in the Mediterranean for its fruit and the oil obtained from it.
The small oval fruit of this tree, eaten ripe (usually black) or unripe (usually green).
The wood of the olive tree.
A dark yellowish-green color, that of an unripe olive.
(anatomy) An olivary body, part of the medulla oblongata.
A component of a plumbing compression joint; a ring which is placed between the nut and the pipe and compressed during fastening to provide a seal.
(cookery) A small slice of meat seasoned, rolled up, and cooked.
Any shell of the genus and allied genera; so called from the shape.
(UK, dialect) An oystercatcher, a shore bird.
(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.
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English
(wikipedia olive)Noun
(en noun)- a beef olive
- olives of veal
Derived terms
* black olive * green olive * olive branch * olive crown * olive drab * olive green * olive grove * olive oil * olivey * queen olive * Russian olive * wild oliveSee also
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Anagrams
* English refractory feminine rhymes ----size
English
Etymology 1
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(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)