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English

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Pronunciation


Etymology

{{term|smæl||lang=ang}}

Adjective

  1. Not large or big; insignificant; few in numbers or size.
  2. : A small serving of ice cream.
  3. : A small group.
  4. : He made us all feel small.
  5. young|Young, as a child.
  6. : Remember when the children were small?
  7. In the Context of miniscule|Miniscule or lowercase, referring to letters.


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Translations

  • Albanian: i vogël
  • Arabic: (ṣɑğír)
  • : Egyptian: (ṣuğɑyyɑr)
  • Aramaic:
  • : Syriac: ܙܥܘܪܐ (z‘ūrā, z‘ūro)
  • : Hebrew: זעורא (z‘ūrā, z‘ūro)
  • Bosnian:
  • Bulgarian: {{t+|bg|малък|sc=Cyrl}}
  • Catalan: petit
  • Chinese: 小 (xiǎo)
  • Crimean Tatar: kiçik, kiçkene
  • Croatian:
  • Czech: {{t+|cs|malý|m}}
  • Danish: lille, liden
  • Dutch: , ,
  • Esperanto: malgranda
  • Ewe: sue
  • Finnish:
  • French: ,
  • German:
  • Greek: {{t+|el|μικρός|tr=mikrós|sc=Grek}}
  • Hebrew: קטן (katán)
  • Hindi: छोटा (chhota)
  • Hungarian: ,
  • Icelandic: ,
  • Ido: mikra
  • Indonesian: {{t+|id|kecil|xs=Indonesian}}
  • Irish: {{t-|ga|beag|xs=Irish}}
  • Italian:

Noun

  1. Any part of something that is smaller or slimmer than the rest, now usually with anatomical reference to the back.
  2. underclothes|Underclothes.


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Category:100 English basic words

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Swedish

Verb form

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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English 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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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English 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.
[1913 Webster]

3. pl. Same as Little go. See under Little, a.
[1913 Webster]
GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Small \Small\ (sm[add]l), a. [Compar. Smaller
(sm[add]l"[~e]r); 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.
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To compare
Great things with small. --Milton.
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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.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Small \Small\, v. t.
To make little or less. [Obs.]
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WordNet 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: small(a)]
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]
Moby Dictionary
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


FOLDOC 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].


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