Size vs Color - What's the difference?
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(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.
(uncountable) The spectral composition of visible light
(countable) A particular set of visible spectral compositions, perceived or named as a class.
(uncountable) Hue as opposed to achromatic colors (black, white and grays).
(uncountable) Human skin tone, especially as an indicator of race or ethnicity.
(figuratively) Interest, especially in a selective area.
(heraldry) Any of the standard dark tinctures used in a coat of arms, including azure, gules, sable, and vert. Contrast with metal.
(in the plural) A standard or banner.
The system of color television.
(in the plural) An award for sporting achievement, particularly within a school or university.
In corporate finance, details on sales, profit margins, or other financial figures, especially while reviewing quarterly results when an officer of a company is speaking to investment analysts.
(physics) A property of quarks, with three values called red, green, and blue, which they can exchange by passing gluons.
(typography) The relative lightness or darkness of a mass of written or printed text on a page.
(snooker) Any of the colored balls excluding the reds.
A front or facade: an ostensible truth actually false.
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An appearance of right or authority.
(medicine) Skin color noted as: normal, jaundice, cyanotic, flush, mottled, pale, or ashen as part of the skin signs assessment.
Conveying color, as opposed to shades of gray.
To give something color.
To apply colors to the areas within the boundaries of a line drawing using colored markers or crayons.
(of a face) To become red through increased blood flow.
To affect without completely changing.
(informal) To attribute a quality to.
(mathematics) To assign colors to the vertices of (a graph) or the regions of (a map) so that no two adjacent ones have the same color.
As nouns the difference between size and color
is that size is subject, topic while color is (uncountable) the spectral composition of visible light.As an adjective color is
conveying color, as opposed to shades of gray.As a verb color is
to give something color.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)
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)Verb
(siz)See also
* 1000 English basic wordscolor
English
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* colour (see the below)Noun
- Humans and birds can perceive color .
- Most languages have names for the colors black, white, red, and green.
- He referred to the white flag as one "drained of all color ".
- Color has been a sensitive issue in many societies.
- a bit of local color
- The loss of their colors destroyed the regiment's morale.
- This film is broadcast in color .
- He was awarded colors for his football.
- Could you give me some color with regards to which products made up the mix of revenue for this quarter?
- Under color of law, he managed to bilk taxpayers of millions of dollars.
Usage notes
The late (etyl) colour'', which is the standard UK spelling, has been the usual spelling in Britain since the 14th century and was chosen by (1828), along with favor, honor, etc., and is currently the standard US spelling. In Canada, colour'' is preferred, but ''color'' is not unknown; in Australia, ''-our'' endings are the standard, although ''-or'' endings had some currency in the past and are still sporadically found in some regions. In New Zealand, ''-our endings are the standard.Synonyms
* (spectral composition of visible light) blee * (particular set named as a class) blee, hue * hue, shade, blee * (human skin tone as an indicator of race or ethnicity) colour of one’s skin, complexion, blee, ethnicity, race * interest * (dark tincture) stain * (standard or banner) banner, standard * (colour television) colour televisionDerived terms
* color-blind * color charge * color code * color commentator * colored * colorful * color of fire * flame-color * colorimeter * colorize * colorism * colorless * colors * discoloration * in color * off-color * prismatic colors * true colorsAdjective
(-) (US)- Color television and movies were considered a great improvement over black and white.
Verb
(en-verb) (US)- We could color the walls red.
- My kindergartener loves to color .
- ''Her face colored as she realized her mistake.
- That interpretation certainly colors my perception of the book.
- Color me confused.
- Can this graph be two-colored ?
- You can color any map with four colors.
