Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In knitting, the act of reducing the breadth of the work, as by throwing two stitches into one.
- noun The part of the work which has been thus narrowed or contracted.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of contracting, or of making or becoming less in breadth or extent.
- noun The part of a stocking which is narrowed.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Present participle of
narrow . - noun The part of a
stocking that isnarrowed .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a decrease in width
- noun the act of making something narrower
- adjective becoming gradually narrower
- adjective (of circumstances) tending to constrict freedom
- noun an instance of becoming narrow
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Examples
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As a writer with a wide variety of interests and a difficulty in narrowing them, I wonder about these things.
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The legislation would begin narrowing the gap by providing a $250 rebate this year.
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If there's been government intervention from time to time to blunt the effects of historic discrimination, how come it hasn't succeeded in narrowing the gaps in American life much more than we've seen so far?
Ray Suarez: Race, Ethnicity, Wealth, and Poverty Ray Suarez 2010
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A congenital heart defect that results in narrowing of the aorta.
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If there's been government intervention from time to time to blunt the effects of historic discrimination, how come it hasn't succeeded in narrowing the gaps in American life much more than we've seen so far?
Ray Suarez: Race, Ethnicity, Wealth, and Poverty Ray Suarez 2010
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If there's been government intervention from time to time to blunt the effects of historic discrimination, how come it hasn't succeeded in narrowing the gaps in American life much more than we've seen so far?
Ray Suarez: Race, Ethnicity, Wealth, and Poverty Ray Suarez 2010
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I always follow the map and, having kicked myself for failing to direct us off onto smaller roads at a previous junction, noted a thin white line of track that bypassed what I assumed was the problem – the road narrowing from a dual to a single carriageway quite three miles up ahead.
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And in any case the narrowing is pretty slight, if speech within 1000 feet of the funeral qualifies as physical proximity.
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If there's been government intervention from time to time to blunt the effects of historic discrimination, how come it hasn't succeeded in narrowing the gaps in American life much more than we've seen so far?
Ray Suarez: Race, Ethnicity, Wealth, and Poverty Ray Suarez 2010
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If there's been government intervention from time to time to blunt the effects of historic discrimination, how come it hasn't succeeded in narrowing the gaps in American life much more than we've seen so far?
Ray Suarez: Race, Ethnicity, Wealth, and Poverty Ray Suarez 2010
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