Small




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Small \Small\, adv.

1. In or to small extent, quantity, or degree; little;
slightly. [Obs.] "I wept but small." --Chaucer. "It small
avails my mood." --Shak.
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2. Not loudly; faintly; timidly. [Obs. or Humorous]
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You may speak as small as you will. --Shak.
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Small \Small\, n.

1. The small or slender part of a thing; as, the small of the
leg or of the back.
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2. pl. Smallclothes. [Colloq.] --Hood. Dickens.
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3. pl. Same as Little go. See under Little, a.
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Small \Small\ (sm[add]l), a. [Compar. Smaller
(sm[add]l"[~e]r); superl. Smallest.] [OE. small, AS. smael;
akin to D. smal narrow, OS. & OHG. smal small, G. schmal
narrow, Dan. & Sw. smal, Goth. smals small, Icel. smali small
cattle, sheep, or goats; cf. Gr. mh^lon a sheep or goat.]

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.
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To compare
Great things with small. --Milton.
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2. Being of slight consequence; feeble in influence or
importance; unimportant; trivial; insignificant; as, a
small fault; a small business.
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3. Envincing little worth or ability; not large-minded; --
sometimes, in reproach, paltry; mean.
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A true delineation of the smallest man is capable of
interesting the greatest man. --Carlyle.
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4. Not prolonged in duration; not extended in time; short;
as, after a small space. --Shak.
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5. Weak; slender; fine; gentle; soft; not loud. "A still,
small voice." --1 Kings xix. 12.
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Great and small,of all ranks or degrees; -- used especially
of persons. "His quests, great and small." --Chaucer.

Small arms, muskets, rifles, pistols, etc., in distinction
from cannon.

Small beer. See under Beer.

Small coal.
(a) Little coals of wood formerly used to light fires.
--Gay.
(b) Coal about the size of a hazelnut, separated from the
coarser parts by screening.

Small craft (Naut.), a vessel, or vessels in general, of a
small size.

Small fruits. See under Fruit.

Small hand, a certain size of paper. See under Paper.

Small hours. See under Hour.

Small letter. (Print.), a lower-case letter. See
Lower-case, and Capital letter, under Capital, a.

Small piece, a Scotch coin worth about 21/4d. sterling, or
about 41/2cents.

Small register. See the Note under 1st Register, 7.

Small stuff (Naut.), spun yarn, marline, and the smallest
kinds of rope. --R. H. Dana, Jr.

Small talk, light or trifling conversation; chitchat.

Small wares (Com.), various small textile articles, as
tapes, braid, tringe, and the like. --M`Culloch.
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Small \Small\, v. t.
To make little or less. [Obs.]
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small
adv 1: on a small scale; "think small" [ant: big]
adj 1: limited or below average in number or quantity or
magnitude or extent; "a little dining room"; "a little
house"; "a small car"; "a little (or small) group" [syn:
small, little] [ant: big, large]

2: limited in size or scope; "a small business"; "a newspaper
with a modest circulation"; "small-scale plans"; "a pocket-
size country" [syn: minor, modest, small, {small-
scale}, pocket-size, pocket-sized]

3: (of children and animals) young, immature; "what a big little
boy you are"; "small children" [syn: little, small]

4: slight or limited; especially in degree or intensity or
scope; "a series of death struggles with small time in
between"

5: low or inferior in station or quality; "a humble cottage"; "a
lowly parish priest"; "a modest man of the people"; "small
beginnings" [syn: humble, low, lowly, modest,
small]

6: lowercase; "little a"; "small a"; "e.e.cummings's poetry is
written all in minuscule letters" [syn: little,
minuscule, small]

7: (of a voice) faint; "a little voice"; "a still small voice"
[syn: little, small]

8: have fine or very small constituent particles; "a small misty
rain"

9: not large but sufficient in size or amount; "a modest
salary"; "modest inflation"; "helped in my own small way"
[syn: modest, small]

10: made to seem smaller or less (especially in worth); "her
comments made me feel small" [syn: belittled,
diminished, small]
n 1: the slender part of the back

2: a garment size for a small person
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SMALL


1. Functional, lazy, untyped.

["SMALL - A Small Interactive Functional System",
L. Augustsson, TR 28, U Goteborg and Chalmers U, 1986].


2. A toy language used to illustrate {denotational
semantics}.

["The Denotational Description of Programming Languages",
M.J.C. Gordon, Springer 1979].

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small [smɔːl]
gering; klein; unbedeutend

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small [smɔːl]
petit

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small

alig
aprajavminek
apró-cseprô
apró
apróra
aprószén
bányaapró
csekélyjelentôségû
csekélyszámú
csekély
erôtlen
gyenge
halk
hitvány
hitványka
hulladékszén
jelentéktelenösszegû
jelentéktelen
keskeny
kevésfogásbólálló
kevésszámú
kicsi
kicsiny
kicsinyes
kisbetûkkel
kisdarabokra
kisméretû
kisrészevminek
kisösszegû
kis
kisszámú
könnyû
megbocsátható
megszokott
mellôzhetô
mindennapi
nemelégnagy
nemfontos
nemhosszú
nemnagyjelentôségû
nemnagyon
nemsok
rövidideigtartó
rövid
silány
sovány
szûk
szûkkeblû
ércdaraéskôzetkeveréke


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small [smɔːl]
beag; beagÚn

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small
piccolo

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small [smɔːl]
parvus

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small [smɔːl]
gering; karig; klein; luttel; min

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small [smɔːl]
pequeno

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small [smɔːl]
chico; pequeño

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small [smɔːl]
liten

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small [smɔːl]
bach; bychan

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small

klein; gering; unbedeutend adj
small

kleinwüchsig adj
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291 Moby Thesaurus words for "small":
Lenten, Lilliputian, Spartan, abject, abominable, abstemious, airy,
arrant, ascetic, atrocious, attenuate, attenuated, austere,
authoritarian, baby, back-burner, bantam, base, beggarly, bigot,
bigoted, borne, boyish, cheap, cheesy, close, closed, commonplace,
constricted, contemptible, cramped, creedbound, crummy, cursory,
deaf, deaf to reason, debased, deficient, degraded, delicate,
depraved, depthless, despicable, diaphanous, diluted, diminished,
diminutive, dinky, dirty, disgusting, dispensable, dwarfed,
dwarfish, elfin, ethereal, everyday, execrable, exiguous,
fanatical, few, fine, fine-drawn, finespun, flagrant, flat, flimsy,
footling, foul, frail, frugal, fulsome, gauzy, girlish, gossamer,
gracile, grave, gross, grudging, half-pint, heinous, hidebound,
homely, humble, humble-looking, humble-visaged, humblest,
illiberal, immaterial, immature, imperfect, impoverished,
in a nutshell, in miniature, in the small, inadequate,
inappreciable, incompetent, inconsequential, inconsiderable,
inessential, inferior, inglorious, innocuous, insignificant,
insubstantial, insufficient, insular, irrelevant, jejune,
knee-high, lacy, lean, least, lesser, light, limited, little,
little-minded, low, low-down, lowest, lowliest, lowly, lumpen,
maladroit, mangy, matter-of-fact, meager, mean, mean-minded,
mean-spirited, measly, mediocre, midget, mingy, mini, miniature,
minor, minuscule, minute, miserable, miserly, misty, modest,
monkey, monstrous, mundane, narrow, narrow-hearted, narrow-minded,
narrow-souled, narrow-spirited, nearsighted, nefarious, negligible,
niggardly, no great shakes, nonessential, not comparable,
not in it, not vital, nugatory, obnoxious, odious, one-horse,
out of it, paltry, papery, parochial, parsimonious, peewee, petit,
petite, petty, picayune, picayunish, piddling, pindling,
pint-sized, plain, pocket-sized, poky, poor, provincial, puny,
purblind, rank, rare, rarefied, reduced, reptilian, scabby, scant,
scanty, scrawny, scrimp, scrimpy, scrubby, scruffy, scummy, scurvy,
secondary, selfish, shabby, shallow, shoddy, short, shortsighted,
simple, skimp, skimpy, skin-deep, slender, slenderish, slight,
slight-made, slightly, slim, slimmish, slinky, small-minded,
small-scale, smallish, smally, spare, sparing, squalid, starvation,
stingy, stinted, stinting, straitened, straitlaced, stuffy,
stunted, subsistence, subtle, superficial, svelte, sylphlike,
teachable, technical, teeny, tenuous, thin, thin-bodied, thin-set,
thin-spun, thinnish, threadlike, tight, tight-fisted, tiny,
trifling, trivial, two-by-four, two-dimensional, uncatholic,
uncharitable, unchivalrous, undersized, undistinguished,
unessential, ungenerous, unimaginative, unimportant, unimpressive,
uninspired, unliberal, unmentionable, unnoteworthy, unnourishing,
unnutritious, unoriginal, unpretentious, unprofound,
unsatisfactory, unskillful, vague, vile, wasp-waisted, watered,
watered-down, watery, weak, wee, willowy, wiredrawn, wispy,
wretched, young



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