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Size vs Texture - What's the difference?

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In obsolete terms the difference between size and texture

is that size is a regulation, piece of ordinance while texture is something woven; a woven fabric; a web.

As nouns the difference between size and texture

is that size is an assize while texture is the feel or shape of a surface or substance; the smoothness, roughness, softness, etc. of something.

As verbs the difference between size and texture

is that size is to adjust the size of; to make a certain size while texture is to create or apply a texture.

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.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= Welcome to the plastisphere , passage=[The researchers] noticed many of their pieces of [plastic marine] debris sported surface pits around two microns across. Such pits are about the size of a bacterial cell. Closer examination showed that some of these pits did, indeed, contain bacteria, […].}}
  • (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.
  • texture

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The feel or shape of a surface or substance; the smoothness, roughness, softness, etc. of something.
  • The beans had a grainy, gritty texture in her mouth.
  • (arts) The quality given to a work of art by the composition and interaction of its parts.
  • The piece of music had a mainly smooth texture .
  • (computer graphics) An image applied to a polygon to create the appearance of a surface,
  • (obsolete) The act or art of weaving.
  • (Sir Thomas Browne)
  • (obsolete) Something woven; a woven fabric; a web.
  • * Thomson
  • Others, apart far in the grassy dale, / Or roughening waste, their humble texture weave.
    (Milton)
  • (biology, obsolete) A tissue.
  • Verb

    (textur)
  • to create or apply a texture
  • ''Drag the trowel through the plaster to texture the wall.