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Look up: Narrow

  1. narrow
    [adj] - very limited in degree 2. [adj] - not wide 3. [adj] - limited in size or scope 4. [n] - a narrow strait connecting two bodies of water 5. [v] - make or become more narrow or restricted
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  2. Narrow
    Nar'row adjective [ Compar. Narrower ; superl. Narrowest .] [ Middle English narwe , naru , Anglo-Saxon nearu ; akin to Old Saxon naru , naro .] 1. Of little breadth; not wide or broad; having little distance from side to side; as, a narrow board; a narrow street; a narrow ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/N/4

  3. Narrow
    Nar'row noun ; plural Narrows 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. « Near the island lay on one side the jaws of a dangerous narrow Gladstone.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/N/4

  4. Narrow
    Nar'row transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Narrowed ; present participle & verbal noun Narrowing .] [ Anglo-Saxon nearwian .] 1. To lessen the breadth of; to contract; to draw into a smaller compass; to reduce the width or extent of. Sir W. Temple. 2. To contract the reach or sphere of; to mak ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/N/4

  5. Narrow
    Nar'row intransitive verb 1. To become less broad; to contract; to become narrower; as, the sea narrows into a strait. 2. (Man.) Not to step out enough to the one hand or the other; as, a horse narrows . Farrier's Dict. 3. (Knitting) To contract the size of a stocking or other knit article, by taking two stitches into one.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/N/4

  6. narrow
    1. Of little breadth; not wide or broad; having little distance from side to side; as, a narrow board; a narrow street; a narrow hem. 'Hath passed in safety through the narrow seas.' (Shak) ... 2. Of little extent; very limited; circumscribed. 'The Jews were but a small nation, and confined to a narrow compass in the world.' (Bp. Wilkins) ... 3. Havi ...
    Found on http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictiona

  7. narrow
    adjective limited in size or scope; `the narrow sense of a word`
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  8. narrow
    adjective not wide; `a narrow bridge`; `a narrow line across the page`
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  9. narrow
    noun a narrow strait connecting two bodies of water
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  10. Narrow
    • (superl.) Of little extent; very limited; circumscribed. • (superl.) Limited as to means; straitened; pinching; as, narrow circumstances. • (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. • (v. t.) To lessen the breadth of; to contract...
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  11. narrow
    thin, not wide
    Found on http://www.eslgold.com/acad_vocab_defini


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