adjusted English
Adjective
( en adjective)
Which has been compensated in order to avoid bias
Verb
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narrowed English
Verb
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narrow English
Adjective
( er)
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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* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title=(A Cuckoo in the Nest)
, chapter=1 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.}}
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=14 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.}}
* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author= Catherine Clabby
, magazine=( American Scientist), title= 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.}}
Of little extent; very limited; circumscribed.
* Bishop Wilkins
- The Jews were but a small nation, and confined to a narrow compass in the world.
(figuratively) Restrictive; without flexibility or latitude.
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Contracted; of limited scope; illiberal; bigoted.
- a narrow''' mind; '''narrow views
* Macaulay
- a narrow understanding
Having a small margin or degree.
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- The Republicans won by a narrow majority.
* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=September 18, author=Ben Dirs
, title=Rugby World Cup 2011: England 41-10 Georgia, work=BBC Sport
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.}}
(dated) Limited as to means; straitened; pinching.
- narrow circumstances
Parsimonious; niggardly; covetous; selfish.
* Smalridge
- a very narrow and stinted charity
Scrutinizing in detail; close; accurate; exact.
* Milton
- But first with narrow search I must walk round / This garden, and no corner leave unspied.
(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.
Antonyms
* wide
* broad
Derived terms
* narrowboat, narrow boat
* narrow-minded
* narrowness
Verb
( en verb)
To reduce in width or extent; to contract.
- We need to narrow the search.
To get narrower.
- The road narrows .
(knitting) To contract the size of, as a stocking, by taking two stitches into one.
Synonyms
* taper
Noun
( en noun)
(chiefly, in the plural) A narrow passage, especially a contracted part of a stream, lake, or sea; a strait connecting two bodies of water.
- the Narrows of New York harbor
* Gladstone
- Near the island lay on one side the jaws of a dangerous narrow .
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