size
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 →
2) A size is one of the set measures for clothes and shoes: shoe size 3. tree →
3) Size can mean how many there are: the size of a group. tree →
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 →
- The groups are all the same size. tree →
- What is the size of each team if 20 children make 4 teams? tree →
- What size shoes do you wear? tree →
- A blue whale is the size of a bus. tree →
- Sort the stones by size, from small to big. tree →
- These trousers are the wrong size. tree →
- Our class size is 28 children. tree →
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.
- Black and brown bear cubs are born in the den in midwinter and are only about the size of a guinea pig.
- For its size a Shetland pony is one of the strongest horses and once pulled carts in coal mines.
- The jaguar has the strongest bite for its size of any big cat and can crack turtle shells and caiman skulls.
- The tiny wren has one of the loudest songs for its size, which carries through thick bushes.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «size» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.