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# size

«size» in Mova's school dictionary: **how big or how small something is: the size of an elephant** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (size, sizes); verb (size — to sort by size; size up — to judge)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Size is how big or how small something is: the size of an elephant. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/size/#m1)

2) A size is one of the set measures for clothes and shoes: shoe size 3. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/size/#m2)

3) Size can mean how many there are: the size of a group. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/size/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

how many things are in one group («multiply the number of groups by the size of one group»); the size of one group is one factor in multiplying, or the answer when dividing a total by the number of groups; in science comparing sizes of animals, planets, seeds; in everyday life shoe sizes, «one size fits all»

### examples

- We multiply the number of groups by the size of one group. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/size/#x1)
- The groups are all the same size. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/size/#x2)
- What is the size of each team if 20 children make 4 teams? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/size/#x3)
- What size shoes do you wear? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/size/#x4)
- A blue whale is the size of a bus. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/size/#x5)
- Sort the stones by size, from small to big. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/size/#x6)
- These trousers are the wrong size. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/size/#x7)
- Our class size is 28 children. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/size/#x8)

### note

The size of one group is one factor in multiplying, or the answer when dividing a total by the number of groups. Trap: «the size of a group» is a number of things, not how big each thing is.

### In the corpora

- [The ancestors of elephants, around 55 million years ago, were pig-sized animals with no trunk.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/21-elephants-the-trunk/19/)
- [Black and brown bear cubs are born in the den in midwinter and are only about the size of a guinea pig.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/23-bears/11/)
- [For its size a Shetland pony is one of the strongest horses and once pulled carts in coal mines.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/139-peppas-friends-as-real-animals/9/)
- [The jaguar has the strongest bite for its size of any big cat and can crack turtle shells and caiman skulls.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/157-the-amazon-forest-floor/10/)
- [The tiny wren has one of the loudest songs for its size, which carries through thick bushes.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/216-garden-birds-robins-blackbirds-tits-and-feeders/15/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «size» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/size/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.