Verb
to look at critically or searchingly, or in minute detail
Source: WordNetsize-up
I talk as I sketch, too, in order to keep their minds off what I'm doing so I'll get the most natural expression I can from them. Also, the talking helps to size up the subject's personality, so I can figure out better how to portray him. Norman Rockwell
You size up someone physically in less than one second - too tall, too short, too fat, too thin, too old, too young, too stuffy, too scruffy. Helen Fisher
It didn't require a Sherlock Holmes to size up the situation. Edwin Lefèvre
[Institutional entrepreneurs must] size up the condition of the organizational field and figure out what kinds of action make sense. Neil Fligstein
First impressions matter. Experts say we size up new people in somewhere between 30 seconds and two minutes. Elliott Abrams
he scrutinized his likeness in the mirror Source: Internet