Narrow vs False - 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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, magazine=(American Scientist), title= Of little extent; very limited; circumscribed.
* 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
Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
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Spurious, artificial.
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(lb) Of a state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result.
Uttering falsehood; dishonest or deceitful.
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Not faithful or loyal, as to obligations, allegiance, vows, etc.; untrue; treacherous.
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*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:I to myself was false , ere thou to me.
Not well founded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous.
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*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
*:whose false foundation waves have swept away
Not essential or permanent, as parts of a structure which are temporary or supplemental.
(lb) Out of tune.
As adjectives the difference between narrow and false
is that narrow is having a small width; not wide; slim; slender; having opposite edges or sides that are close, especially by comparison to length or depth while false is (label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.As a verb narrow
is to reduce in width or extent; to contract.As a noun narrow
is (chiefly|in the plural) a narrow passage, especially a contracted part of a stream, lake, or sea; a strait connecting two bodies of water.narrow
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Adjective
(er)citation, passage=She was like a Beardsley Salome , he had said. And indeed she had the narrow eyes and the high cheekbone of that creature, and as nearly the sinuosity as is compatible with human symmetry.}}
citation, passage=Just under the ceiling there were three lunette windows, heavily barred and blacked out in the normal way by centuries of grime. Their bases were on a level with the pavement outside, a narrow way which was several feet lower than the road behind the house.}}
Catherine Clabby
Focus on Everything, passage=Not long ago, it was difficult to produce photographs of tiny creatures with every part in focus. That’s because the lenses that are excellent at magnifying tiny subjects produce a narrow depth of field. A photo processing technique called focus stacking has changed that.}}
- 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.
citation, passage=As in their narrow defeat of Argentina last week, England were indisciplined at the breakdown, and if Georgian fly-half Merab Kvirikashvili had remembered his kicking boots, Johnson's side might have been behind at half-time.}}
- 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 .
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Adjective
(er)A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles: Founded Mainly on the Materials Collected by the Philological Society, section=Part 1, publisher=Clarendon Press, location=Oxford, editor= , volume=1, page=217 , passage=Also the rule of false position, with dyuers examples not onely vulgar, but some appertaynyng to the rule of Algeber.}}