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Definition of Small

1. Noun. The slender part of the back.

2. Adjective. Limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent. "A little (or small) group"

3. Adverb. On a small scale. "Think small"

4. Noun. A garment size for a small person.

5. Adjective. Limited in size or scope. "A pocket-size country"

6. Adjective. (of children and animals) young, immature. "Small children"

7. Adjective. Slight or limited; especially in degree or intensity or scope. "A series of death struggles with small time in between"

8. Adjective. Low or inferior in station or quality. "Small beginnings"

9. Adjective. Lowercase. "E.e.cummings's poetry is written all in minuscule letters"

10. Adjective. (of a voice) faint. "A still small voice"

11. Adjective. Have fine or very small constituent particles. "A small misty rain"

12. Adjective. Not large but sufficient in size or amount. "Helped in my own small way"

13. Adjective. Made to seem smaller or less (especially in worth). "Her comments made me feel small"

Definition of Small

1. a. 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.

2. adv. In or to small extent, quantity, or degree; little; slightly.

3. n. The small or slender part of a thing; as, the small of the leg or of the back.

4. v. t. To make little or less.

Definition of Small

1. Adjective. Not large or big; insignificant; few in numbers or size. ¹

2. Adjective. (figuratively) Young, as a child. ¹

3. Adjective. (context: writing incomparable) Minuscule or lowercase, referring to written letters. ¹

4. Adverb. In a small fashion. ¹

5. Noun. Any part of something that is smaller or slimmer than the rest, now usually with anatomical reference to the back. ¹

6. Noun. (UK in the plural) Underclothes. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Small

1. of limited size or quantity [adj SMALLER, SMALLEST] / a small part [n -S]

Medical Definition of Small

1. 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. "To compare Great things with small." (Milton) 2. Being of slight consequence; feeble in influence or importance; unimportant; trivial; insignificant; as, a small fault; a small business. 3. Envincing little worth or ability; not large-minded; sometimes, in reproach, paltry; mean. "A true delineation of the smallest man is capable of interesting the reatest man." (Carlyle) 4. Not prolonged in duration; not extended in time; short; as, after a small space. 5. Weak; slender; fine; gentle; soft; not loud. "A still, small voice." Great and small,of all ranks or degrees; used especially of persons. "His quests, great and small." . Small arms, muskets, rifles, pistols, etc, in distinction from cannon. Small beer. See Beer. Small coal. Little coals of wood formerly used to light fires. Coal about the size of a hazelnut, separated from the coarser parts by screening. Small craft, various small textile articles, as tapes, braid, tringe, and the like. Origin: OE. Small, AS. Sm$l; akin to D. Smal narrow, OS. & OHG. Smal small, G. Schmal narrow, Dan. & Sw. Smal, Goth. Smals small, Icel. Smali smal cattle, sheep, or goats; cf. Gr. A sheep or goat. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Small

smackeroonies smackeroos smackers smackhead smackheads smacking smackingly smackings smacks smaik

smaiks smail smailed smailing smake small (current term) small(a) small-area analysis small-arm small-billed tinamou

small-billed tinamous small-bore small-c conservative small-c conservatives small-cap small-capitalisation small-capitalization small-d democrat small-d democrats small-for-gestational-age infant

Literary usage of Small

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Engineering Mathematics: A Series of Lectures Delivered at Union College by Charles Proteus Steinmetz (1911)
"The forms most frequently used in the reduction of expressions containing small quantities are multiplication and division, the binomial series, ..."

2. The Greatness and Decline of Rome by Guglielmo Ferrero (1908)
"CHAPTER I THE small BEGINNINGS OF A GREAT EMPIRE Italy in the second half of the fifth century BC—The warfare between the small republics, ..."

3. Self-propelled Vehicles: A Practical Treatise on the Theory, Construction by James Edward Homans (1904)
"small Shell Boilers for Carriages.—Many of the best known makes of American ... All such boilers are of small dimensions, frequently little over one foot in ..."

4. The Class Struggle (Erfurt Program) by Karl Kautsky (1910)
"I. THE PASSING OF small PRODUCTION. 1. small Production and Private Property. The program adopted by the German Social Democracy at Erfurt in 1891 divides ..."

5. History and Pathology of Vaccination by Edgar March Crookshank (1889)
"CHAPTER I. HISTORY OF small POX INOCULATION IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES. THE practice of small Pox inoculation is one of very great antiquity. ..."

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