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English Dictionary: small	by the DICT Development Group
6 results for small
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
small adv on a small scale; "think small" Antonym(s): big adj 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" Synonym(s): small, little Antonym(s): big, large limited in size or scope; "a small business"; "a newspaper with a modest circulation"; "small-scale plans"; "a pocket- size country" Synonym(s): minor, modest, small, small- scale, pocket-size, pocket-sized (of children and animals) young, immature; "what a big little boy you are"; "small children" Synonym(s): little, small slight or limited; especially in degree or intensity or scope; "a series of death struggles with small time in between" low or inferior in station or quality; "a humble cottage"; "a lowly parish priest"; "a modest man of the people"; "small beginnings" Synonym(s): humble, low, lowly, modest, small lowercase; "little a"; "small a"; "e.e.cummings's poetry is written all in minuscule letters" Synonym(s): little, minuscule, small (of a voice) faint; "a little voice"; "a still small voice" Synonym(s): little, small have fine or very small constituent particles; "a small misty rain" not large but sufficient in size or amount; "a modest salary"; "modest inflation"; "helped in my own small way" Synonym(s): modest, small made to seem smaller or less (especially in worth); "her comments made me feel small" Synonym(s): belittled, diminished, small n the slender part of the back a garment size for a small person
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Small \Small\, adv. 1. In or to small extent, quantity, or degree; little; slightly. [Obs.] [bd]I wept but small.[b8] --Chaucer. [bd]It small avails my mood.[b8] --Shak. 2. Not loudly; faintly; timidly. [Obs. or Humorous] You may speak as small as you will. --Shak.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Small \Small\, n. 1. The small or slender part of a thing; as, the small of the leg or of the back. 2. pl. Smallclothes. [Colloq.] --Hood. Dickens. 3. pl. Same as {Little go}. See under {Little}, a.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Small \Small\, v. t. To make little or less. [Obs.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Small \Small\ (sm[add]l), a. [Compar. {Smaller}; superl. {Smallest}.] [OE. small, AS. sm[91]l; akin to D. smal narrow, OS. & OHG. smal small, G. schmal narrow, Dan. & Sw. smal, Goth. smals small, Icel. smali smal 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. To compare Great things with small. --Milton. 2. Being of slight consequence; feeble in influence or importance; unimportant; trivial; insignificant; as, a small fault; a small business. 3. Envincing little worth or ability; not large-minded; -- sometimes, in reproach, paltry; mean. A true delineation of the smallest man is capable of interesting the greatest man. --Carlyle.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
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].