narrowing
狭窄化,缩小,狭窄的,缩窄
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Definitions
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nar·row·er, nar·row·est.
- : of little breadth or width; not broad or wide; not as wide as usual or expected: a narrow path.
- : limited in extent or space; affording little room: narrow quarters.
- : limited in range or scope: a narrow sampling of public opinion.
- : lacking breadth of view or sympathy, as persons, the mind, or ideas: a narrow man, knowing only his professional specialty; a narrow mind.
- : with little margin to spare; barely adequate or successful; close: a narrow escape.
- : careful, thorough, or minute, as a scrutiny, search, or inquiry.
- : limited in amount; small; meager: narrow resources.
- : straitened; impoverished: narrow circumstances.
- : New England. stingy or parsimonious.
- : Phonetics. articulated with the tongue laterally constricted, as the ee of beet, the oo of boot, etc.; tense.Compare lax. utilizing a unique symbol for each phoneme and whatever supplementary diacritics are needed to indicate its subphonemic varieties.Compare broad.
- : proportionately rich in protein.
Phrases
- narrow escape
- straight and narrow
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
The wind-whipped blaze’s precise extent and the number of casualties, as people ran through narrow streets to escape, can only be guessed.
In a mosaic, only certain combinations of these two parameters work, forming a narrow swath of shapes that could possibly result from something falling apart.
On the upper floors, narrow corridors make it easy to bump into people on their way out of a side gallery.
To narrow it down, Tuchman and her co-authors focused on the top 500 brands as measured by dollar sales.
Whatever kind you get, an extender will narrow the space between your skin and the top of your mask.
Then a slowing down, the sound narrowing from a dark mass to a single line.
This strain of enterovirus seems unusually provocative in irritating lower airways, thereby causing airway narrowing.
The village sits along a narrowing vein of the Rio Negro, a tributary of the mighty Amazon.
A Malaysia Airlines flight carrying 295 people aboard crashed and suspicion is narrowing on pro-Russian separatists.
Perhaps most importantly, normalizing marriage is a narrowing, rather than an expanding, of sexual possibility.
He missed Flora's gay letter of gossip, and looked with narrowing lids at the pile of newspapers.
Then graduate the shades back again to white, narrowing the first row of white with the larger mesh.