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Sized vs Sired - What's the difference?

sized | sired |

As verbs the difference between sized and sired

is that sized is (size) while sired is (sire).

As an adjective sized

is having a certain usually used in combination with an adverb.

sized

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Having a certain . Usually used in combination with an adverb.
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    Verb

    (head)
  • (size)

    • See also

    * sized up

    sired

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (sire)

    • Anagrams

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    sire

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A lord, master, or other person in authority, most commonly used vocatively: formerly in speaking to elders and superiors, later only when addressing a sovereign.
  • A male animal; a stud, especially a horse or dog, that has fathered another.
  • (obsolete) A father; the head of a family; the husband.
  • * Shakespeare
    • And raise his issue, like a loving sire .
  • (obsolete) A creator; a maker; an author; an originator.
  • * Shelley
    • [He] was the sire of an immortal strain.

    Verb

    (sir)
  • Of a male: to procreate; to father, beget.
  • * 1994 , Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom , Abacus 2010, p. 6:
    • In these travels, my father sired thirteen children in all, four boys and nine girls.

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