ALL meanings of narrowing
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N n - adjective narrowing of little breadth or width; not broad or wide; not as wide as usual or expected: a narrow path. 1
- adjective narrowing limited in extent or space; affording little room: narrow quarters. 1
- adjective narrowing limited in range or scope: a narrow sampling of public opinion. 1
- adjective narrowing lacking breadth of view or sympathy, as persons, the mind, or ideas: a narrow man, knowing only his professional specialty; a narrow mind. 1
- adjective narrowing with little margin to spare; barely adequate or successful; close: a narrow escape. 1
- adjective narrowing careful, thorough, or minute, as a scrutiny, search, or inquiry. 1
- adjective narrowing limited in amount; small; meager: narrow resources. 1
- adjective narrowing straitened; impoverished: narrow circumstances. 1
- adjective narrowing New England. stingy or parsimonious. 1
- adjective narrowing Phonetics. (of a vowel) articulated with the tongue laterally constricted, as the ee of beet, the oo of boot, etc.; tense. Compare lax (def 7). (of a phonetic transcription) utilizing a unique symbol for each phoneme and whatever supplementary diacritics are needed to indicate its subphonemic varieties. Compare broad (def 14). 1
- adjective narrowing (of livestock feeds) proportionately rich in protein. 1
- verb without object narrowing to decrease in width or breadth: This is where the road narrows. 1
- verb with object narrowing to make narrower. 1
- verb with object narrowing to limit or restrict (often followed by down): to narrow an area of search; to narrow down a contest to three competitors. 1
- verb with object narrowing to make narrow-minded: Living in that village has narrowed him. 1
- noun narrowing a narrow part, place, or thing. 1
- noun narrowing a narrow part of a valley, passage, or road. 1
- noun narrowing narrows, (used with a singular or plural verb) a narrow part of a strait, river, ocean current, etc. 1
- noun narrowing The Narrows, a narrow strait from upper to lower New York Bay, between Staten Island and Long Island. 2 miles (3.2 km) long; 1 mile (1.6 km) wide. 1
- noun Definition of narrowing in Technology (logic programming) Unification followed by unfolding. The left-hand side of a rule is unified with some term, resulting in a set of variable bindings. The term is then replaced by the right-hand side of the rule with values substituted for bound variables. 1
- noun narrowing Present participle of narrow. 1
- noun narrowing the act or process of making narrow, limiting, or restricting, in size, scope, etc 0