SMALL
\smˈɔːl], \smˈɔːl], \s_m_ˈɔː_l]\
Definitions of SMALL
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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made to seem smaller or less (especially in worth); "her comments made me feel small"
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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"
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lowercase; "little a"; "small a"; "e.e.cummings's poetry is written all in minuscule letters"
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limited in size or scope; "a small business"; "a newspaper with a modest circulation"; "small-scale plans"; "a pocket-size country"
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not large but sufficient in size or amount; "a modest salary"; "modest inflation"; "helped in my own small way"
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a garment size for a small person
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the slender part of the back
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on a small scale; "think small"
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slight or limited; especially in degree or intensity or scope; "a series of death struggles with small time in between"
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have fine or very small constituent particles; "a small misty rain"
By Princeton University
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made to seem smaller or less (especially in worth); "her comments made me feel small"
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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"
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lowercase; "little a"; "small a"; "e.e.cummings's poetry is written all in minuscule letters"
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limited in size or scope; "a small business"; "a newspaper with a modest circulation"; "small-scale plans"; "a pocket-size country"
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not large but sufficient in size or amount; "a modest salary"; "modest inflation"; "helped in my own small way"
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a garment size for a small person
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the slender part of the back
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on a small scale; "think small"
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(archaic) slight or limited; especially in degree or intensity or scope; "a series of death struggles with small time in between"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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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.
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Being of slight consequence; feeble in influence or importance; unimportant; trivial; insignificant; as, a small fault; a small business.
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Not prolonged in duration; not extended in time; short; as, after a small space.
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In or to small extent, quantity, or degree; little; slightly.
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Not loudly; faintly; timidly.
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The small or slender part of a thing; as, the small of the leg or of the back.
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Smallclothes.
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Same as Little go. See under Little, a.
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To make little or less.
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Envincing little worth or ability; not large-minded; - sometimes, in reproach, paltry; mean.
By Oddity Software
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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.
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Being of slight consequence; feeble in influence or importance; unimportant; trivial; insignificant; as, a small fault; a small business.
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Not prolonged in duration; not extended in time; short; as, after a small space.
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In or to small extent, quantity, or degree; little; slightly.
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Not loudly; faintly; timidly.
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The small or slender part of a thing; as, the small of the leg or of the back.
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Smallclothes.
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Same as Little go. See under Little, a.
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To make little or less.
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Envincing little worth or ability; not large-minded; - sometimes, in reproach, paltry; mean.
By Noah Webster.
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Comparatively little in size, quantity, or degree: opposite to large; unimportant or insignificant; as, his opinion is of small value; not powerful; not long in duration; as, a small period of time; petty; not large-minded; narrow.
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Smallness.
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Smaller.
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Smallest.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Smallness.
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Little in quantity or degree: minute: not great: unimportant: of little worth or ability: short: having little strength: gentle.
By Daniel Lyons
By James Champlin Fernald
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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Little in size, quantity, amount, degree, quality, &c.; minute; slender; of little moment; of little genius; weak; gentle; mean.
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The slender part of a thing.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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HEREDITAMENTS
- Tilings capable of being inherited, be it corporeal or incorporeal,real, personal, mixed, and including not only lands everything thereon, but alsolieir-looms, certain furniture which, by custom, may descend to the heir togetherwith (he land. Co. Litt. 5b; 2 Bl. Comm. 17; Nell is v. Munson, 108 N. Y. 453, 15 E.730; Owens Lewis, 40 Ind. 508, Am. Rep. 205; Whitlock Greacen. 4S J. Eq.350. 21 Atl. 944; Mitchell Warner, 5 Conn. 407; New York Mabie, 13 150, 04Am. Dec. 53S. Estates. Anything capable of being inherited, be it corporeal or incorporeal, real, personal, mixed and including not only lands everything thereon, but also heir looms, certain furniture which, by custom, may descend to the heir, together with land. Co. Litt. 5 b; 1 Tho. 219; 2 Bl. Com. 17. this term such things are denoted, as subject-matter inheritance, inheritance itself; cannot therefore, its own intrinsic force, enlarge an estate, prima facie a life into fee. B. & P. 251; 8 T. R. 503; 219, note Hereditaments are divided into corporeal and incorporeal. confined to lands. (q. v.) Vide Incorporeal hereditaments, Shep. To. 91; Cruise's Dig. tit. 1, s. 1; Wood's Inst.221; 3 Kent, Com. 321; Dane's Ab. Index, h.t.; 1 Chit. Pr. 203-229; 2 Bouv. Inst. n. 1595, et seq.