Found 7 hits - Term: small, Database: *, Strategy: exact
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
small \small\, adv.
1. in or to small extent, quantity, or degree; little;
slightly. obs. "i wept but small." --chaucer. "it small
avails my mood." --shak.
1913 webster
2. not loudly; faintly; timidly. obs. or humorous
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you may speak as small as you will. --shak.
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- [2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
small \small\, n.
1. the small or slender part of a thing; as, the small of the
leg or of the back.
1913 webster
2. pl. smallclothes. colloq. --hood. dickens.
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3. pl. same as little go. see under little, a.
1913 webster
see also:
little go little
- [3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
small \small\ smaddl, a. compar. smaller
smaddl"~er; superl. smallest. oe. small, as. smael;
akin to d. smal narrow, os. ohg. smal small, g. schmal
narrow, dan. sw. smal, goth. smals small, icel. smali small
cattle, sheep, or goats; cf. gr. mh^lon a sheep or goat.
1. having little size, compared with other things of the same
kind; little in quantity or degree; diminutive; not large
or extended in dimension; not great; not much;
inconsiderable; as, a small man; a small river.
1913 webster
to compare
great things with small. --milton.
1913 webster
2. being of slight consequence; feeble in influence or
importance; unimportant; trivial; insignificant; as, a
small fault; a small business.
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3. envincing little worth or ability; not large-minded; --
sometimes, in reproach, paltry; mean.
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a true delineation of the smallest man is capable of
interesting the greatest man. --carlyle.
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4. not prolonged in duration; not extended in time; short;
as, after a small space. --shak.
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5. weak; slender; fine; gentle; soft; not loud. "a still,
small voice." --1 kings xix. 12.
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great and small,of all ranks or degrees; -- used especially
of persons. "his quests, great and small." --chaucer.
small arms, muskets, rifles, pistols, etc., in distinction
from cannon.
small beer. see under beer.
small coal.
a little coals of wood formerly used to light fires.
--gay.
b coal about the size of a hazelnut, separated from the
coarser parts by screening.
small craft naut., a vessel, or vessels in general, of a
small size.
small fruits. see under fruit.
small hand, a certain size of paper. see under paper.
small hours. see under hour.
small letter. print., a lower-case letter. see
lower-case, and capital letter, under capital, a.
small piece, a scotch coin worth about 21/4d. sterling, or
about 41/2cents.
small register. see the note under 1st register, 7.
small stuff naut., spun yarn, marline, and the smallest
kinds of rope. --r. h. dana, jr.
small talk, light or trifling conversation; chitchat.
small wares com., various small textile articles, as
tapes, braid, tringe, and the like. --m`culloch.
1913 webster
see also:
smaller smallest great and small small arms small beer beer
small coal small craft small fruits fruit small hand
paper small hours hour small letter lower-case
capital letter capital small piece small register register
small stuff small talk small wares
- [4] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
small \small\, v. t.
to make little or less. obs.
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- [5] : WordNet (r) 2.0
small
adj 1: limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude
or extent; "a little dining room"; "a little house";
"a small car"; "a little or small group"; "a small
voice" syn: little ant: large, large
2: limited in size or scope; "a small business"; "a newspaper
with a modest circulation"; "small-scale plans"; "a
pocket-size country" syn: minor, modest, small-scale,
pocket-size, pocket-sized
3: low or inferior in station or quality; "a humble cottage";
"a lowly parish priest"; "a modest man of the people";
"small beginnings" syn: humble, low, lowly, modest
4: not fully grown; "what a big little boy you are"; "small
children" syn: little
5: too small to be seen except under a microscope syn: microscopic,
microscopical ant: macroscopic
6: not large but sufficient in size or amount; "a modest
salary"; "modest inflation"; "helped in my own small way"
syn: modest
7: of a voice faint; "a little voice"; "a still small voice"
syn: little
8: slight or limited; especially in degree or intensity or
scope; "a series of death struggles with small time in
between" syn: smalla
9: made to seem smaller or less especially in worth; "her
comments made me feel small" syn: belittled, diminished
10: lowercase; "little a"; "small a"; "e.e.cummings's poetry is
written all in minuscule letters" syn: little, minuscule
11: have fine or very small constituent particles; "a small
misty rain"
n 1: the slender part of the back
2: a garment size for a small person
adv : on a small scale; "think small" ant: big
see also:
little large minor modest small-scale pocket-size
pocket-sized humble low lowly microscopic
microscopical macroscopic smalla belittled diminished
minuscule big
- [6] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
291 moby thesaurus words for "small":
lenten, lilliputian, spartan, abject, abominable, abstemious, airy,
arrant, ascetic, atrocious, attenuate, attenuated, austere,
authoritarian, baby, back-burner, bantam, base, beggarly, bigot,
bigoted, borne, boyish, cheap, cheesy, close, closed, commonplace,
constricted, contemptible, cramped, creedbound, crummy, cursory,
deaf, deaf to reason, debased, deficient, degraded, delicate,
depraved, depthless, despicable, diaphanous, diluted, diminished,
diminutive, dinky, dirty, disgusting, dispensable, dwarfed,
dwarfish, elfin, ethereal, everyday, execrable, exiguous,
fanatical, few, fine, fine-drawn, finespun, flagrant, flat, flimsy,
footling, foul, frail, frugal, fulsome, gauzy, girlish, gossamer,
gracile, grave, gross, grudging, half-pint, heinous, hidebound,
homely, humble, humble-looking, humble-visaged, humblest,
illiberal, immaterial, immature, imperfect, impoverished,
in a nutshell, in miniature, in the small, inadequate,
inappreciable, incompetent, inconsequential, inconsiderable,
inessential, inferior, inglorious, innocuous, insignificant,
insubstantial, insufficient, insular, irrelevant, jejune,
knee-high, lacy, lean, least, lesser, light, limited, little,
little-minded, low, low-down, lowest, lowliest, lowly, lumpen,
maladroit, mangy, matter-of-fact, meager, mean, mean-minded,
mean-spirited, measly, mediocre, midget, mingy, mini, miniature,
minor, minuscule, minute, miserable, miserly, misty, modest,
monkey, monstrous, mundane, narrow, narrow-hearted, narrow-minded,
narrow-souled, narrow-spirited, nearsighted, nefarious, negligible,
niggardly, no great shakes, nonessential, not comparable,
not in it, not vital, nugatory, obnoxious, odious, one-horse,
out of it, paltry, papery, parochial, parsimonious, peewee, petit,
petite, petty, picayune, picayunish, piddling, pindling,
pint-sized, plain, pocket-sized, poky, poor, provincial, puny,
purblind, rank, rare, rarefied, reduced, reptilian, scabby, scant,
scanty, scrawny, scrimp, scrimpy, scrubby, scruffy, scummy, scurvy,
secondary, selfish, shabby, shallow, shoddy, short, shortsighted,
simple, skimp, skimpy, skin-deep, slender, slenderish, slight,
slight-made, slightly, slim, slimmish, slinky, small-minded,
small-scale, smallish, smally, spare, sparing, squalid, starvation,
stingy, stinted, stinting, straitened, straitlaced, stuffy,
stunted, subsistence, subtle, superficial, svelte, sylphlike,
teachable, technical, teeny, tenuous, thin, thin-bodied, thin-set,
thin-spun, thinnish, threadlike, tight, tight-fisted, tiny,
trifling, trivial, two-by-four, two-dimensional, uncatholic,
uncharitable, unchivalrous, undersized, undistinguished,
unessential, ungenerous, unimaginative, unimportant, unimpressive,
uninspired, unliberal, unmentionable, unnoteworthy, unnourishing,
unnutritious, unoriginal, unpretentious, unprofound,
unsatisfactory, unskillful, vague, vile, wasp-waisted, watered,
watered-down, watery, weak, wee, willowy, wiredrawn, wispy,
wretched, young
- [7] : The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)
small
1. functional, lazy, untyped.
"small - a small interactive functional system",
l. augustsson, tr 28, u goteborg and chalmers u, 1986.
2. a toy language used to illustrate denotational
semantics.
"the denotational description of programming languages",
m.j.c. gordon, springer 1979.
see also:
toy language denotational semantics
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