Narrow
['nærəʊ] or ['næro]
Definition
(noun.) a narrow strait connecting two bodies of water.
(verb.) make or become more narrow or restricted; 'The selection was narrowed'; 'The road narrowed'.
(adj.) limited in size or scope; 'the narrow sense of a word' .
(adj.) not wide; 'a narrow bridge'; 'a narrow line across the page' .
(adj.) very limited in degree; 'won by a narrow margin'; 'a narrow escape' .
Edited by Barton--From WordNet
Definition
(superl.) Of little breadth; not wide or broad; having little distance from side to side; as, a narrow board; a narrow street; a narrow hem.
(superl.) Of little extent; very limited; circumscribed.
(superl.) Having but a little margin; having barely sufficient space, time, or number, etc.; close; near; -- with special reference to some peril or misfortune; as, a narrow shot; a narrow escape; a narrow majority.
(superl.) Limited as to means; straitened; pinching; as, narrow circumstances.
(superl.) Contracted; of limited scope; illiberal; bigoted; as, a narrow mind; narrow views.
(superl.) Parsimonious; niggardly; covetous; selfish.
(superl.) Scrutinizing in detail; close; accurate; exact.
(superl.) Formed (as a vowel) by a close position of some part of the tongue in relation to the palate; or (according to Bell) by a tense condition of the pharynx; -- distinguished from wide; as e (eve) and / (f/d), etc., from i (ill) and / (f/t), etc. See Guide to Pronunciation, / 13.
(n.) A narrow passage; esp., a contracted part of a stream, lake, or sea; a strait connecting two bodies of water; -- usually in the plural; as, The Narrows of New York harbor.
(v. t.) To lessen the breadth of; to contract; to draw into a smaller compass; to reduce the width or extent of.
(v. t.) To contract the reach or sphere of; to make less liberal or more selfish; to limit; to confine; to restrict; as, to narrow one's views or knowledge; to narrow a question in discussion.
(v. t.) To contract the size of, as a stocking, by taking two stitches into one.
(v. i.) To become less broad; to contract; to become narrower; as, the sea narrows into a strait.
(v. i.) Not to step out enough to the one hand or the other; as, a horse narrows.
(v. i.) To contract the size of a stocking or other knit article, by taking two stitches into one.
Typist: Marietta
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Of little breadth.[2]. Contracted, circumscribed, limited, confined, straitened, cramped, pinched, scanty, incapacious, of small extent.[3]. Bigoted, selfish, niggardly, mean, ungenerous, parsimonious, covetous, mercenary, illiberal.[4]. Close, near, within a little, with little to spare, within narrow limits.
v. a. Contract, restrict, limit, cramp.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Straight, straightened, slender, thin, spare, contracted, limited, cramped,pinched, scant, close, scrutinizing, near, bigoted, niggardly, tight
ANT:Wide, broad, ample, thick, expanded, easy, liberal
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Definition
adj. of little breadth: of small extent from side to side: limited: contracted in mind: bigoted: not liberal: selfish: within a small distance: almost too small: close: accurate: careful.—n. (oftener used in the pl.) a narrow passage channel or strait.—v.t. to make narrow: to contract or confine.—v.i. to become narrow: to reduce the number of stitches in knitting.—adj. Narr′ow-gauge denoting a railroad of less width than 4 ft. 8?in.—n. Narr′owing the act of making less in breadth: the state of being contracted: the part of anything which is made narrower.—adv. Narr′owly.—adj. Narr′ow-mind′ed of a narrow or illiberal mind.—ns. Narr′ow-mind′edness; Narr′owness.—adjs. Narr′ow-pry′ing (Shak.) scrutinising closely inquisitive; Narr′ow-souled illiberal.—Narrow cloth cloth esp. woollen of less than 54 inches in width; Narrow work in mining the making of passages air-shafts &c.
Typist: Mason
Examples
- It may be questioned whether some of the present pedagogical interest in the matter of values of studies is not either excessive or else too narrow. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The streets are wisely made narrow and the houses heavy and thick and stony, in order that the people may be cool in this roasting climate. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Being delivered into the charge of the ma?tresse, I was led through a long narrow passage into a foreign kitchen, very clean but very strange. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- I will answer for it that we shall find no inconvenience from narrow roads on Wednesday. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- The trees and vines stretch across these narrow roadways sometimes and so shut out the sun that you seem to be riding through a tunnel. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- I know how he has narrowed the circle of his sympathies and duties, in the concentration of his whole mind upon me. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Intelligence is narrowed to the factors concerned with technical production and marketing of goods. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- A fog narrowed our horizon to about a quarter of a mile, and the misty veil, cold and dense, enveloped sky and sea in equal obscurity. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- And the shelter was still there: Lydgate had accepted his narrowed lot with sad resignation. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Our inquiry has already narrowed down to that. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- In a still narrower sense the truth of the Preacher's declaration is apparent:-- In an address before the Anthropological Society of Washington in 1885, the late Prof. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Its main features are described as follows: The types, being rubbed or scraped narrower toward the foot, were to be fixed radially upon a cylinder. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- An upper floor was dedicated to Newland, and the two women squeezed themselves into narrower quarters below. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- It restrains the circulation of each particular company within a narrower circle, and reduces their circulating notes to a smaller number. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- His home, in such another street as the first, saving that it was narrower, was over a little shop. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- But instead of narrowing the scope of politics, to avoid it, the only sensible thing to do is to invent methods which will allow needs and problems and group interests avenues into politics. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The room was darkening to his sight; the world was narrowing around him. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- There was a narrowing up in the mountain, between the National and Confederate armies, through which a stream, a wagon road and a railroad ran. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Now my fate is all narrowing down to a point. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Ingenious arrangements generally exist for widening or narrowing the cultivator and for throwing the soil from the centre of the furrow to opposite sides and against the plant. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Themistocles insisted with all his force on fighting in the narrows of Salamis. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Up the far slope and into the timber where it narrows. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- But we will go separately and riding much and then be together where it narrows above. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The strait is only thirteen miles wide in its narrowest part. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Where we drove I neither knew then nor have ever known since, but we appeared to seek out the narrowest and worst streets in London. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- I shall go and lose myself among the narrowest streets I can find, and not stop till we come to the very out-of-the-wayest house I can set eyes on. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Mrs. Nunsuch went and searched till she found a fragment of the narrowest red ribbon, which she took downstairs and tied round the neck of the image. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
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