size stick
- noun
- Specialized
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regla de tallas
- Using the size stick, she confirmed that my left foot was slightly larger than my right.
Examples
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The shoe salesman measured my feet with a size stick before recommending a pair.
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Can you hand me the size stick?
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Every footwear store should have a size stick to assist customers.
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The size stick is essential for accurate shoe fitting.
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The shoe salesman measured my feet with a size stick before recommending a pair.
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Using the size stick, she confirmed that my left foot was slightly larger than my right.
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Every footwear store should have a size stick to assist customers.
Synonyms
2
2.1
A long rod with marks for measuring length
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4.4
A tool or person who finds the size of things like rings
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a measuring stick for determining shoe size' is directly and transparently built from 'size' (measurement) + 'stick' (a rod/implement), yielding a straightforward compound meaning 'a stick used to measure size'. This is a common compositional pattern found across languages, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would very likely infer the correct meaning.
Etymology
The noun size stick comes from a simple tool: a stick with marks that show different sizes. Shoe fitters would place a foot beside the marks to read length and width, so the name came to mean 'a measuring stick used by shoe fitters to check a person's foot size'.