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narrower 音标拼音: [n'ɛroɚ] Narrow \ Nar" row\ ( n[ a^] r" r[- o]), a. [ Compar. { Narrower} ( n[ a^] r" r[- o]*[~ e] r); superl. { Narrowest}.] [ OE. narwe, naru, AS. nearu; akin to OS. 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 hem. [ 1913 Webster] Hath passed in safety through the narrow seas. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Of little extent; very limited; circumscribed. [ 1913 Webster] The Jews were but a small nation, and confined to a narrow compass in the world. -- Bp. Wilkins. [ 1913 Webster] 3. Having but a little margin; having barely sufficient space, time, or number, etc.; close; near[ 5]; -- with special reference to some peril or misfortune; as, a narrow shot; a narrow escape; a narrow miss; a narrow majority. -- Dryden. [ 1913 Webster] 4. Limited as to means; straitened; pinching; as, narrow circumstances. [ 1913 Webster] 5. Contracted; of limited scope; illiberal; bigoted; as, a narrow mind; narrow views. " A narrow understanding." -- Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster] 6. Parsimonious; niggardly; covetous; selfish. [ 1913 Webster] A very narrow and stinted charity. -- Smalridge. [ 1913 Webster] 7. Scrutinizing in detail; close; accurate; exact. [ 1913 Webster] But first with narrow search I must walk round This garden, and no corner leave unspied. -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] 8. ( Phon.) Formed ( as a vowel) by a close position of some part of the tongue in relation to the palate; or ( according to Bell) by a tense condition of the pharynx; -- distinguished from wide; as [= e] ([= e] ve) and [= oo] ( f[= oo] d), etc., from [ i^] ([ i^] ll) and [ oo^] ( f[ oo^] t), etc. See Guide to Pronunciation, [ sect] 13. [ 1913 Webster] Note: Narrow is not unfrequently prefixed to words, especially to participles and adjectives, forming compounds of obvious signification; as, narrow- bordered, narrow- brimmed, narrow- breasted, narrow- edged, narrow- faced, narrow- headed, narrow- leaved, narrow- pointed, narrow- souled, narrow- sphered, etc. [ 1913 Webster] { Narrow gauge}. ( Railroad) See Note under { Gauge}, n., 6. [ 1913 Webster]
Narrower \ Nar" row* er\, n. One who, or that which, narrows or contracts. -- Hannah More. [ 1913 Webster]
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