different between arcade vs small

English

Etymology

French arcade, from Italian arcata (“arch of a bridge”), from Latin arcus (“arc”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /???ke?d/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???ke?d/
• Hyphenation: ar?cade
• Rhymes: -e?d

Noun

arcade (plural arcades)

1. (architecture) A row of arches.
2. (architecture) A covered passage, usually with shops on both sides.
3. (video games) An establishment that runs coin-operated games.

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ?????
• ? Afrikaans: arcade
• ? Czech: arkádové

Translations

Verb

arcade (third-person singular simple present arcades, present participle arcading, simple past and past participle arcaded)

1. (transitive) To cover (something) as with a series of arches.

   • 1873, Thomas Mayne Reid, The Death Shot, London: Chapman and Hall, Volume 1, Chapter 25, p. 224,^[1]

     its trottoirs brick-paved, and shaded by trees of almost tropical foliage— conspicuous among them the odoriferous magnolia, and the melia azedarach, or “Pride of China,”—these in places completely arcading the street—

Anagrams

• adarce, araced

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French arcade.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??r?ka?.d?/
• Hyphenation: ar?ca?de
• Rhymes: -a?d?

Noun

arcade f (plural arcaden or arcades, diminutive arcadetje n)

1. (architecture) arcade (array of arches)

Derived terms

• arcadehal

Descendants

• ? Indonesian: arkade

French

Etymology

Italian arcata, equivalent to arc +? -ade

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a?.kad/

Noun

arcade f (plural arcades)

1. (architecture) arcade
2. (anatomy) arch, ridge
3. (gaming) arcade

Derived terms

• arcade sourcilière

Descendants

Further reading

• “arcade” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Pronunciation

• (UK)
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /sm??l/
• • Rhymes: -??l
• (US)
  • (General American) IPA^(key): /sm?l/
  • (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /sm?l/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /sm?l/
• (General Australian, General New Zealand) IPA^(key): /smo?l/

Etymology

From Middle English smal, from Old English smæl (“small, narrow, slender”), from Proto-Germanic *smalaz (“small”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)mal-, *(s)mel- (“small, mean, malicious”). Cognate with Scots smal; sma (“small”); West Frisian smel (“narrow”); Dutch smal (“narrow”); German schmal (“narrow, small”); Danish, Norwegian, Swedish smal (“narrow; thin; slender”); Latin malus (“bad”); Russian ?????? (mályj, “small”).

Adjective

small (comparative smaller, superlative smallest)

1. Not large or big; insignificant; few in number.

2. (figuratively) Young, as a child.

3. (writing, incomparable) Minuscule or lowercase, referring to written or printed letters.
4. Envincing little worth or ability; not large-minded; paltry; mean.
   • 1851, Thomas Carlyle, The Life of John Sterling

     A true delineation of the smallest man is capable of interesting the greatest man.

5. Not prolonged in duration; not extended in time; short.

6. (archaic) Slender, gracefully slim.

Synonyms

• (not large or big): little, microscopic, minuscule, minute, tiny; see also Thesaurus:tiny
• (young, as a child): little, wee (Scottish), young
• (of written letters): lowercase, minuscule

Antonyms

• See also Thesaurus:large
• (not large or big): capital, big, generous (said of an amount of something given), large
• (young, as a child): adult, grown-up, old
• (of written letters): big, capital, majuscule, uppercase

Derived terms

Translations

Adverb

small (comparative smaller, superlative smallest)

1. In a small fashion. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
2. In or into small pieces.
   • 2009, Ingrid Hoffman, CBS Early Morning for September 28, 2009 (transcription)

     That's going to go in there. We've got some chives small chopped as well.

3. (obsolete) To a small extent.
4. (obsolete) In a low tone; softly.

Derived terms

• writ small

Noun

small (plural smalls)

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

Derived terms

• small of the back

Verb

small (third-person singular simple present smalls, present participle smalling, simple past and past participle smalled)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To make little or less.
2. (intransitive) To become small; to dwindle.
   • 1917, Thomas Hardy, The Clock of the Years

     And smalled till she was nought at all.

Anagrams

• malls

Icelandic

Verb

small (strong)

1. first-person singular past indicative of smella
2. third-person singular past indicative of smella

Low German

Etymology

From Middle Low German smal, from Old Saxon smal, from Proto-Germanic *smalaz. Cognate with German schmal, Dutch smal, English small.

Adjective

small (comparative smaller, superlative smallst)

1. narrow
2. small, slender

Declension

Middle English

Adjective

small

1. Alternative form of smal

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

small

1. (non-standard since 2005) past tense of smelle

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

small

1. past tense of smella

Swedish

Verb

small

1. past tense of smälla.

Anagrams

• malls