narrow

IPA: nˈɛroʊ

(chiefly in the plural) A narrow passage, especially a contracted part of a stream, lake, or sea; a strait connecting two bodies of water.

(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.

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.
(figuratively) Restrictive; without flexibility or latitude.
Having a small margin or degree.
(dated) Limited as to means; straitened
Parsimonious; niggardly; covetous; selfish.
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.
Contracted; of limited scope; bigoted

Examples of "narrow" in Sentences

"David, you are _not_ big; you are narrow, narrow, _narrow_!
In this case the translation of the English word narrow to German.
But they do not want to get trapped in what they call a narrow strategy.
He critiqued the U.S. media for what he described as a narrow vision that does not include much international news.
It sounds like he just sort of grabbed on and whooshed down the tunnel—what we call the narrow path—right along with you.
Farhat has repeatedly tried to bypass what he calls a "narrow view" of the Internet by the Ministry of Telecommunications.
But to keep the definition narrow was the original compromise ... without which an agreement wouldn't have been possible, Tripathi said.
Germany is demanding what it describes as a "narrow" revision of the Lisbon treaty to ensure new fiscal rules for the eurozone are placed on a legal basis.
School of Management professor Douglas Rae, a former city chief administrative officer, criticizes the Board of Aldermen for pursuing what he calls narrow-minded measures rather than policies beneficial to the entire city.
For it is ever the temptation of young life to think lightly of their father's wisdom, and to despise what they call the narrow religious beliefs, and the careful moral scruples of the old, and to fancy that they know all things so much better than those who have gone before.