Other forms: resizing, resized, resizes
To resize is to alter a ring so that it fits. Resize the ring, get it resized, hard to resize.
A jeweller cuts the band and adds or removes metal, and how far a ring can go depends on the stones: an eternity ring set all the way round cannot be resized at all. In computing, to resize is to change the dimensions of an image or a window.
1verbresizeTo alter a ring so that it fits.
“The jeweller can resize the ring so it fits your finger properly.”
resize is an altering.
Proto-Indo-European
*sed-
Latin
assideo
Old French
cise
Middle English
syse
English
size
English, today
resize
Built from
From re- + size. size Attested since the 14th century, originally meant a “law or regulation that determines the amount to be paid”, from Middle English syse, sise (“regulation, control, limit”), from Old French cise, sise, aphetism of assise (“assize”), from the verb asseoir (“to sit down”), from Latin assideo, composed of ad- + sedeō, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European sed-. Displaced native miċelnes.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA