38 collocations for sizing

Uncle John, by this time standing beside the Major upon the ground, had been quietly "sizing up the situation," as he would have expressed it.

He was quick at sizing up things and people.

"I had a chance to size every man up while Gordon was pitching, and that gave me the advantage.

From the man's eyes the master of the Typhoon had sized up his companion as a fighter.

THE SEX INDEX It follows from these considerations that when it becomes necessary to size the sex composition of a man or woman, a measurement becomes establishable which may be spoken of as the sex index.

He has the faculty of noting mentally, what he sees, and what he hears, and by combining the results of the two, he is enabled to size up the condition of the engine at a glance.

It was a shop of little wooden figures, of local manufacture, representing in all shapes and sizes the costumes, races, and occupations of the country: Indians, Spaniards, Chinese, mestizos, friars, clergymen, government clerks, gobernadorcillos, students, soldiers, and so on.

I think you have made a mistake in sizing up this crowd.

I'll go out and size up the damage to him, if his friends have had enoughand chances are they have.

When the young man's amazement at this offer had abated sufficiently for him to accept he sent the office-boy around to the Santa Fe on the run, instructing him to size up Miss Dunlap and report.

As I size up the effect on the population, we folks in the forties and fifties got more fun out of it than anybody except the folks in the seventies and the five-to-twelve-year-olds.

As the white goosey-gander sized up the wild geese, he felt ill at ease.

And these witches, smoking their cigarettes, and looking their jewels over every other moment to be sure they had not been stolen, would size up "the little girl," as they called her, to conclude that she would "go very far" if she learned how to "play the game.

Had he done so, he would have been startled and distressed, for he had already, with a shrewd medical man's judgment, "sized up" his fellow guest, and found him very much wanting.

"For that matter: how can you be sure you can trust me?" "Oh, I guess I can size up a square guy when I see him.

She has been sizing up the increment of utility which a sixth pound would yield, and she decides that this is worth the expenditure of a further 7 cents.

When the exact quantity of water consumed per hour is known it can be easily determined from the capacities given in the price lists which sized injector must be selected.

While they walked about the streets of the city, Kansas Shorty met a friend whom he addressed as "Nevada Bill," and who as soon as the former told him that Jim was "his road kid", placed his hand under the boy's chin and after sizing the lad up just as a butcher would a beef, he whispered: "Well, well, Kansas Shorty, I see you have brought a fine 'broncho' to town with you.

" An Indian in Washington County once sized up Maine's game laws thus: "Kill cow moose, pay $100; kill man, too bad!

He had to size up your layout, and he's through and waitin' to size up you.

I got up just before dawn as usual, and taking advantage of the grey light, stole about the village and around the house, sizing up the locality and seeing how my position stood with regard to the various machine-gun emplacements.

"No, Fung Wah, you've sized 'im wrong," answered Lying Bill.

To size means to battle, or to be charged in the college accounts for provisions.

For comparison of different kinds or sizes a standard method of testing is necessary and the values must be expressed in some defined units.

I use to size my music, or go on the score for it: I'll pay it at the quarter's end.

38 collocations for  sizing