narrow meaning
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- Narrow may refer to:
- The Narrow, rock band from South Africa
- Narrow banking, proposed banking system that would eliminate bank runs and the need for a deposit insurance
- narrow gauge railway, a railway that has a track gauge narrower than the 4 ft 8½ in of standard gauge railways
- Narrow vs wide format, a style of displaying tabular data
- Narrowboat or narrow boat, a boat of a distinctive design made to fit the narrow canals of Great Britain
- Narrow (album),a 2012 album by Austrian musical project Soap&Skin
- NounPLnarrows
- (chiefly in the plural) A narrow passage, especially a contracted part of a stream, lake, or sea; a strait connecting two bodies of water.
- the Narrows of New York harbor
- (chiefly in the plural) A narrow passage, especially a contracted part of a stream, lake, or sea; a strait connecting two bodies of water.
- VerbSGnarrowsPRnarrowingPT, PPnarrowed
- AdjectiveCOMnarrowerSUPnarrowest
- Having a small width; not wide; slim; slender; having opposite edges or sides that are close, especially by comparison to length or depth.
- a narrow hallway
- Of little extent; very limited; circumscribed.
- (figuratively) Restrictive; without flexibility or latitude.
- a narrow interpretation
- Contracted; of limited scope; illiberal; bigoted.
- a narrow mind; narrow views
- Having a small margin or degree.
- a narrow escape
- The Republicans won by a narrow majority.
- (dated) Limited as to means; straitened; pinching.
- narrow circumstances
- Parsimonious; niggardly; covetous; selfish.
- Scrutinizing in detail; close; accurate; exact.
- (phonetics) 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.
- Having a small width; not wide; slim; slender; having opposite edges or sides that are close, especially by comparison to length or depth.
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- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- Dozens of colorful murals line the narrow streets and wide avenues, celebrating pleneros and poets, rumberos and revolutionaries.
- Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world / Like a Colossus [ …] .
- Perhaps she thought that by taking the huge gamble of misspeaking one more time about her narrow escape on the tarmac at Tuzla, she could compensate for misvoting on Iraq.
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- The project would seriously go down the pan if Mrs. Foster weren't here to keep it on the straight and narrow.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of narrow in English Dictionary
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Source: Wiktionary

