meaning of narrow
1. Of little breadth; not wide or broad; having little distance from side to side; as, a narrow board; a narrow street; a narrow hem.
2. Of little extent; very limited; circumscribed.
3. Having but a little margin; having barely sufficient space, time, or number, etc. ; close; near; -- with special reference to some peril or misfortune; as, a narrow shot; a narrow escape; a narrow majority.
4. Limited as to means; straitened; pinching; as, narrow circumstances.
5. Contracted; of limited scope; illiberal; bigoted; as, a narrow mind; narrow views.
6. Parsimonious; niggardly; covetous; selfish.
7. Scrutinizing in detail; close; accurate; exact.
8. 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; as e (eve) and / (f/d), etc. , from i (ill) and / (f/t), etc. See Guide to Pronunciation, / 13.
9. To lessen the breadth of; to contract; to draw into a smaller compass; to reduce the width or extent of.
10. To contract the reach or sphere of; to make less liberal or more selfish; to limit; to confine; to restrict; as, to narrow ones views or knowledge; to narrow a question in discussion.
11. To contract the size of, as a stocking, by taking two stitches into one.
12. To become less broad; to contract; to become narrower; as, the sea narrows into a strait.
13. Not to step out enough to the one hand or the other; as, a horse narrows.
14. To contract the size of a stocking or other knit article, by taking two stitches into one.
15. A narrow passage; esp. , a contracted part of a stream, lake, or sea; a strait connecting two bodies of water; -- usually in the plural; as, The Narrows of New York harbor.
16. a narrow strait connecting two bodies of water
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