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
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"; "a small
voice" [syn: little] [ant: large, 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-scale,
pocket-size, pocket-sized]
3: 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]
4: not fully grown; "what a big little boy you are"; "small
children" [syn: little]
5: too small to be seen except under a microscope [syn: microscopic,
microscopical] [ant: macroscopic]
6: not large but sufficient in size or amount; "a modest
salary"; "modest inflation"; "helped in my own small way"
[syn: modest]
7: (of a voice) faint; "a little voice"; "a still small voice"
[syn: little]
8: slight or limited; especially in degree or intensity or
scope; "a series of death struggles with small time in
between" [syn: small(a)]
9: made to seem smaller or less (especially in worth); "her
comments made me feel small" [syn: belittled, diminished]
10: lowercase; "little a"; "small a"; "e.e.cummings's poetry is
written all in minuscule letters" [syn: little, minuscule]
11: have fine or very small constituent particles; "a small
misty rain"
n 1: the slender part of the back
2: a garment size for a small person
adv : on a small scale; "think small" [ant: big]
WordNet (r) 2.0
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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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].
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)
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