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oversize

ˌoʊvərˈsaɪz
WordNet
The Israelites are to make stones for Pharaoh in Egypt. Pharaoh's overseers are not satisfied with the number of stones and beat the Israelites.
The Israelites are to make stones for Pharaoh in Egypt. Pharaoh's overseers are not satisfied with the number of stones and beat the Israelites.
  1. (adj) oversize
    larger than normal for its kind
Illustrations
A European overseer standing with a group of Indian workers sitting on the ground. On the right a narrow gauge and fields of sugar cane. Part of the photo album of the Tjomal sugar factory in the period ca.1900-1919.
A European overseer standing with a group of Indian workers sitting on the ground. On the right a narrow gauge and fields of sugar cane. Part of the photo album of the Tjomal sugar factory in the period ca.1900-1919.
An Israelite worker falls to the ground and is whipped by one of Pharaoh's Egyptian overseers. In the background, Moses and Aaron are preaching. The print has a Latin inscription.
An Israelite worker falls to the ground and is whipped by one of Pharaoh's Egyptian overseers. In the background, Moses and Aaron are preaching. The print has a Latin inscription.
A European overseer standing with a group of Indian workers sitting on the ground. A lean-to on the right. Part of the photo album of the Tjomal sugar factory in the period ca.1900-1919.
A European overseer standing with a group of Indian workers sitting on the ground. A lean-to on the right. Part of the photo album of the Tjomal sugar factory in the period ca.1900-1919.
A Jewish worker falls to the ground and is whipped by one of Pharaoh's Egyptian overseers. In the background, Moses and Aaron are preaching. The print has a Latin inscription.
A Jewish worker falls to the ground and is whipped by one of Pharaoh's Egyptian overseers. In the background, Moses and Aaron are preaching. The print has a Latin inscription.
A European overseer and Indian workers standing in a field where sugar cane is cut. Part of the photo album of the Tjomal sugar factory in the period ca.1900-1919.
A European overseer and Indian workers standing in a field where sugar cane is cut. Part of the photo album of the Tjomal sugar factory in the period ca.1900-1919.
A European overseer standing on a road with a group of Indian workers sitting on the ground. Sugar cane fields on the right. Part of the photo album of the Tjomal sugar factory in the period ca.1900-1919.
A European overseer standing on a road with a group of Indian workers sitting on the ground. Sugar cane fields on the right. Part of the photo album of the Tjomal sugar factory in the period ca.1900-1919.
A European overseer standing on a road with a group of Indian workers sitting on the ground. Part of the photo album of the Tjomal sugar factory in the period ca.1900-1919.
A European overseer standing on a road with a group of Indian workers sitting on the ground. Part of the photo album of the Tjomal sugar factory in the period ca.1900-1919.
A European overseer and Indian workers standing in a field where sugar cane is cut. In the foreground a narrow gauge. Part of the photo album of the Tjomal sugar factory in the period ca.1900-1919.
A European overseer and Indian workers standing in a field where sugar cane is cut. In the foreground a narrow gauge. Part of the photo album of the Tjomal sugar factory in the period ca.1900-1919.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Oversize
    To cover with viscid matter. "O'ersized with coagulate gore."
  2. Oversize
    To surpass in size.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. oversize
    To surpass in bulk or size.
  2. oversize
    To cover with size or viscid matter.
  3. oversize
    Of excessive size; specifically, noting material which is too large to pass through the meshes of a given screen or sieve. That which passes through the meshes receives one sort of treatment; the oversize, or oversized material, passes off from the screen on its upper surface to a subsequent process.
  4. (n) oversize
    Material that is oversize.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (v.t) Oversize
    ō-vėr-sīz′ (Shak.) to cover with any gluey matter: to plaster over.
Usage in the news

Sneiv Is Investigating Oversize Burgers. danshamptons.com

Bloc Party, one of the most talked about bands in the blog-overse, have announced plans to digitally release "Intimacy Remixed" on May 12 via Atlantic Records. nypost.com

New tube technology aids in measurement of oversized components. qualitymag.com

If government environmental overseers grant a license to build the nation's first uranium mill since the Cold War in western Colorado, project leaders then would turn their attention to China, Korea and other Asian powers. denverpost.com

Cons Does not easily support oversized video cards. pcmag.com

In the cartoons I watched growing up, important things were always locked behind oversize padlocks. gcn.com

During a race in South Africa over the weekend, a biker named Evan van der Spuy was riding along when he got RAMMED by a red hartebees…which is like an oversized antelope . 98kool.com

Contributed photo Wayne "Snook Man" Landry of Palm Bay caught and released this oversized snook at Sebastian Inlet during the second week of August. tcpalm.com

It seems that almost every empty lot, owned by only a few developers, has an oversized Jill Johnson sign. hidbeynewstimes.com

A statue of a cowboy wearing a rainbow-colored wig and oversize sunglasses greets customers at the doors of Balloon Saloon. nytimes.com

In "Elf," comedian Will Ferrell is a lovably oversized elf who leaves the North Pole to find his father. tulsaworld.com

Zooey posts pic of her oversized veggie, and Miranda replies that she's got one that's that big, too. countryweekly.com

We don't know if the Chinese stonemasons who built the new Martin Luther King memorial got the job by shoving a sign bearing that message into the faces of its overseers. humanevents.com

Don we now our oversized sweatpants. bendbulletin.com

He was probably just a little drunk and clowning, but when Marco Benevento put on a pair of oversized sunglasses partway through his set, it was impossible not to think he was somehow channeling Elton John—albeit a very shaggy one. metroland.net

Usage in scientific papers

The spacer material was chosen as silicon carbide foam with an 8 % density, its width slightly oversized with respect to the sensors for geometrical reasons and to ensure maximal stiffness.
Development of Single- and Double-sided Ladders for the ILD Vertex Detectors

We have only considered the two corrected tests since the likelihood ratio is considerably oversized, as noted earlier.
Improved Likelihood Inference in Birnbaum-Saunders Regressions

For N = 12 and N = 24, the two best performing tests are LRCR CR ; LR∗ is slightly oversized.
Improved testing inference in mixed linear models

The test statistics are oversized when the sample size n = 64 and 128, and the size distortion becomes less severe when the sample size is larger, e.x. n = 400 (results not shown).
A generalized portmanteau test of independence between two stationary time series

Lemonte et al. (2010) presented simulation results showing that the (asymptotic) likelihood ratio test can be markedly oversized in small or moderate-sized samples.
Small-sample corrections for score tests in Birnbaum-Saunders regressions

Usage in literature

Purty soon we hear Sandy hollering and we know old overseer pouring in on, den de overseer come back by his self and go on up to de house. "Slave Narratives, Oklahoma" by Various

Nelson Tindle took a great liking to Alvin and in a short time made him overseer over a number of slaves. "The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918" by Various

For a moment the overseer was dumbfounded and could not speak. "Reginald Cruden" by Talbot Baines Reed

The boundary between Yanyilla and Telowie was among those ranges, and Paul Griffith was the overseer at Telowie. "The Moving Finger" by Mary Gaunt

The claims upon the Parish Overseer were constant and of the most varied character. "Fragments of Two Centuries" by Alfred Kingston

The men were ranged near the entrance, which, at a look from the overseer, was now guarded by the three unoccupied blacks. "Nic Revel" by George Manville Fenn

We found all going on well at home, Martin Prentis, the overseer, also giving a favourable account of affairs on the estate. "With Axe and Rifle" by W.H.G. Kingston

That the overseer was a great scoundrel they had no doubt, and they therefore agreed that he must at once be got rid of. "The Gilpins and their Fortunes" by William H. G. Kingston

The overseer, Mr Rabbitts, at the request of our host, sang a good song. "Paddy Finn" by W. H. G. Kingston

The next question I put to the overseer was about him. "My First Voyage to Southern Seas" by W.H.G. Kingston

Usage in poetry
The lovers shock'd, with sighs and tears
Pierce every heart but overseers.
For hearts united just like these
Can never separate with ease.
"The Pleasures Of Matrimony" by William Hutton
Wrought was she of a painter's dream,—
Wise only as are artists wise,
My artist-friend, Rolf Herschkelhiem,
With deep sad eyes of oversize,
And face of melancholy guise.
"Orlie Wilde" by James Whitcomb Riley Author object (339)
It happen'd on a luckless day,
When life's sweet stream had no allay,
William and Hannah careless sat,
Amus'd with inoffensive chat,
A sudden voice approach'd the room;
"The overseers of Hinckley come!"
"The Pleasures Of Matrimony" by William Hutton
On our field hands thou lookest, too—
A sort of nightly overseer—
Canst find no other work to do?
I tell thee, thou'rt not wanted here;
So, pray, shine only on the oceans,
Thou number one of 'Northern notions.'
"Slaveholder's Address To The North Star" by John Pierpont Author object (391)
No more again shall it be granted
To southern overseers to rule—
No more will pilgrims' sons be taunted
With cringing low in slavery's school.
So clear the way for Freedom's car—
The free shall rule!—hurrah, hurrah!
"Emancipation Song" by Anonymous Americas