Narrow vs Compact - What's the difference?
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Having a small width; not wide; slim; slender; having opposite edges or sides that are close, especially by comparison to length or depth.
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* Bishop Wilkins
(figuratively) Restrictive; without flexibility or latitude.
Contracted; of limited scope; illiberal; bigoted.
* Macaulay
Having a small margin or degree.
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(dated) Limited as to means; straitened; pinching.
Parsimonious; niggardly; covetous; selfish.
* Smalridge
Scrutinizing in detail; close; accurate; exact.
* Milton
(phonetics) 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.
To reduce in width or extent; to contract.
To get narrower.
(knitting) To contract the size of, as a stocking, by taking two stitches into one.
(chiefly, in the plural) A narrow passage, especially a contracted part of a stream, lake, or sea; a strait connecting two bodies of water.
* Gladstone
Closely packed, i.e. packing much in a small space.
* Isaac Newton
Having all necessary features fitting neatly into a small space.
(mathematics, uncomparable, of a set in an Euclidean space) Closed and bounded.
(topology, uncomparable, of a set) Such that every open cover of the given set has a finite subcover.
Brief; close; pithy; not diffuse; not verbose.
(obsolete) Joined or held together; leagued; confederated.
* Shakespeare
* Peacham
(obsolete) Composed or made; with of .
* Milton
A small, slim folding case, often featuring a mirror, powder and a powderpuff; that fits into a woman's purse or handbag, or that slips into ones pocket.
A broadsheet newspaper published in the size of a tabloid but keeping its non-sensational style.
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To make more dense; to compress.
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To unite or connect firmly, as in a system.
* Bible, Eph. iv. 16
In transitive terms the difference between narrow and compact
is that narrow is to reduce in width or extent; to contract while compact is to make more dense; to compress.narrow
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Adjective
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- The Jews were but a small nation, and confined to a narrow compass in the world.
- a narrow''' mind; '''narrow views
- a narrow understanding
- The Republicans won by a narrow majority.
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- narrow circumstances
- a very narrow and stinted charity
- But first with narrow search I must walk round / This garden, and no corner leave unspied.
Antonyms
* wide * broadDerived terms
* narrowboat, narrow boat * narrow-minded * narrownessVerb
(en verb)- We need to narrow the search.
- The road narrows .
Synonyms
* taperNoun
(en noun)- the Narrows of New York harbor
- Near the island lay on one side the jaws of a dangerous narrow .
compact
English
(wikipedia compact)Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Synonyms
* agreement, contract, pact, treatyEtymology 2
From (etyl), from (etyl) .Adjective
(en adjective)- glass, crystal, gems, and other compact bodies
- a compact laptop computer
- A set S of real numbers is called compact if every sequence in S has a subsequence that converges to an element again contained in S.
- a compact discourse
- compact with her that's gone
- a pipe of seven reeds, compact with wax together
- A wandering fire, / Compact of unctuous vapour.
Synonyms
* (closely packed) concentrated, dense, serried, solid, thick, tightDerived terms
* compact car * compact disc * locally compactNoun
(en noun)- The Dundee Courier has announced the newspaper will be relaunching as a compact later this week. Editor Richard Neville said a "brighter, bolder" paper would appear from Saturday, shrunk from broadsheet to tabloid size.
See also
*Verb
(en verb)- The whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth.