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bounded
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?ba?nd?d/
Verb
bounded
- simple past tense and past participle of bound
Adjective
bounded (comparative more bounded, superlative most bounded)
- (mathematical analysis, of a set) That can be enclosed within a ball of finite radius.
- A compact set must be bounded.
- (set theory, order theory, of a poset X with partial order ?) That contains a least element, a, and a greatest element, b, such that for all x ? X, a ? x ? b.
Derived terms
- unbounded
Translations
Anagrams
- debound
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narrow
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?næ???/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?næ?o?/, /?n??o?/
- (Mary–marry–merry distinction)
- (Mary–marry–merry merger)
- Rhymes: -ær??
Etymology 1
From Middle English narow, narowe, narewe, narwe, naru, from Old English nearu (“narrow, strait, confined, constricted, not spacious, limited, petty; limited, poor, restricted; oppressive, causing anxiety (of that which restricts free action of body or mind), causing or accompanied by difficulty, hardship, oppressive; oppressed, not having free action; strict, severe”), from Proto-Germanic *narwaz (“constricted, narrow”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ner- (“to turn, bend, twist, constrict”). Cognate with Scots naro, narow, narrow (“narrow”), North Frisian naar, noar, noor (“narrow”), Saterland Frisian noar (“bleak, dismal, meager, ghastly, unwell”), Saterland Frisian Naarwe (“scar”), West Frisian near (“narrow”), Dutch naar (“dismal, bleak, ill, sick”), Low German naar (“dismal, ghastly”), German Narbe (“scar”), Norwegian norve (“a clip, staple”), Icelandic njörva- (“narrow-”, in compounds).
Adjective
narrow (comparative narrower, superlative narrowest)
- Having a small width; not wide; having opposite edges or sides that are close, especially by comparison to length or depth.
- Of little extent; very limited; circumscribed.
- 1675, John Wilkins, Of the Principles and Duties of Natural Religion
- The Jews were but a small nation, and confined to a narrow compass in the world.
- 1675, John Wilkins, Of the Principles and Duties of Natural Religion
- (figuratively) Restrictive; without flexibility or latitude.
- Contracted; of limited scope; bigoted
- Having a small margin or degree.
- (dated) Limited as to means; straitened
- narrow circumstances
- Parsimonious; niggardly; covetous; selfish.
- a. 1719, George Smalridge, The Hopes of a Recompense from Men must not be our chief Aim in doing Good
- a very narrow […] and stinted charity
- a. 1719, George Smalridge, The Hopes of a Recompense from Men must not be our chief Aim in doing Good
- Scrutinizing in detail; close; accurate; exact.
- (phonetics) Formed (as a vowel) by a close position of some part of the tongue in relation to the palate; or (according to Bell) by a tense condition of the pharynx; distinguished from wide.
Antonyms
- wide
- broad
Related terms
- narrowly
- narrowness
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
narrow (plural narrows)
- (chiefly in the plural) A narrow passage, especially a contracted part of a stream, lake, or sea; a strait connecting two bodies of water.
- 1858', William Gladstone, Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age
- Near the island lay on one side the jaws of a dangerous narrow.
- 1858', William Gladstone, Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age
Etymology 2
From Middle English narwen (“to narrow”); see there for more details, but ultimately derived from the noun.
Verb
narrow (third-person singular simple present narrows, present participle narrowing, simple past and past participle narrowed)
- (transitive) To reduce in width or extent; to contract.
- (intransitive) To get narrower.
- (of a person or eyes) To partially lower one's eyelids in a way usually taken to suggest a defensive, aggressive or penetrating look.
- (knitting) To contract the size of, as a stocking, by taking two stitches into one.
- (transitive, programming) To convert to a data type that cannot hold as many distinct values.
- Antonym: widen
Synonyms
- taper
Derived terms
- narrow down
- renarrow
Translations
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