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narrow
Overview of noun narrow
The noun narrow has 1 sense (no senses from tagged texts)
1. narrow -- (a narrow strait connecting two bodies of water)
Overview of verb narrow
The verb narrow has 4 senses (first 4 from tagged texts)
1. (2) narrow, contract -- (make or become more narrow or restricted; "The selection was narrowed"; "The road narrowed")
2. (1) pin down, peg down, nail down, narrow down, narrow, specify -- (define clearly; "I cannot narrow down the rules for this game")
3. (1) specialize, specialise, narrow, narrow down -- (become more special; "We specialize in dried flowers")
4. (1) constrict, constringe, narrow -- (become tight or as if tight; "Her throat constricted")
Overview of adj narrow
The adj narrow has 5 senses (first 3 from tagged texts)
1. (20) narrow -- (not wide; "a narrow bridge"; "a narrow line across the page")
2. (2) narrow -- (limited in size or scope; "the narrow sense of a word")
3. (1) narrow-minded, narrow -- (lacking tolerance or flexibility or breadth of view; "a brilliant but narrow-minded judge"; "narrow opinions")
4. narrow -- (very limited in degree; "won by a narrow margin"; "a narrow escape")
5. minute, narrow -- (characterized by painstaking care and detailed examination; "a minute inspection of the grounds"; "a narrow scrutiny"; "an exact and minute report")
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun narrow
1 sense of narrow
Sense 1
narrow
=> strait, sound
=> channel
=> body of water, water
=> thing
=> physical entity
=> entity
Hyponyms of noun narrow
1 sense of narrow
Sense 1
narrow
HAS INSTANCE=> Verrazano Narrows
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun narrow
1 sense of narrow
Sense 1
narrow
=> strait, sound
Antonyms of noun narrow
Member Holonyms of noun narrow
Substance Holonyms of noun narrow
Part Holonyms of noun narrow
Member Meronyms of noun narrow
Substance Meronyms of noun narrow
Part Meronyms of noun narrow
Meronyms of noun narrow
Holonyms of noun narrow
Attributes of noun narrow
Derived Forms of noun narrow
1 sense of narrow
Sense 1
narrow
RELATED TO>(verb) narrow#1
=> narrow, contract
Domain of noun narrow
Domain Terms of noun narrow
Familiarity of noun narrow
narrow used as a noun is very rare (polysemy count =1)
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun narrow
1 sense of narrow
Sense 1
narrow
> strait, sound
HAS INSTANCE=> Dardanelles, Canakkale Bogazi, Hellespont
HAS INSTANCE=> East River
HAS INSTANCE=> Bering Strait
HAS INSTANCE=> Bosporus
HAS INSTANCE=> Cook Strait
HAS INSTANCE=> Golden Gate
HAS INSTANCE=> Kattegatt
HAS INSTANCE=> Korean Strait, Korea Strait
HAS INSTANCE=> Menai Strait
=> narrow
HAS INSTANCE=> North Channel
HAS INSTANCE=> Skagerrak, Skagerak
HAS INSTANCE=> Solent
HAS INSTANCE=> Strait of Georgia
HAS INSTANCE=> Strait of Gibraltar
HAS INSTANCE=> Strait of Hormuz, Strait of Ormuz
HAS INSTANCE=> Strait of Magellan
HAS INSTANCE=> Strait of Messina
HAS INSTANCE=> Strait of Dover, Strait of Calais, Pas de Calais
HAS INSTANCE=> Torres Strait
Meronyms of noun narrow
1 sense of narrow
Sense 1
narrow
=> strait, sound
=> channel
=> body of water, water
HAS SUBSTANCE: water, H2O
HAS SUBSTANCE: hydrogen, H, atomic number 1
HAS SUBSTANCE: oxygen, O, atomic number 8
Holonyms of noun narrow
Grep of noun narrow
eastern narrow-mouthed toad
narrow
narrow-body
narrow-body aircraft
narrow-leaf cattail
narrow-leaf penstemon
narrow-leaved bottletree
narrow-leaved everlasting pea
narrow-leaved flame flower
narrow-leaved plantain
narrow-leaved reedmace
narrow-leaved spleenwort
narrow-leaved strap fern
narrow-leaved water plantain
narrow-leaved white-topped aster
narrow-mindedness
narrow beech fern
narrow boat
narrow escape
narrow gauge
narrow goldenrod
narrow margin
narrow wale
narrowboat
narrowbody aircraft
narrowhead morel
narrowing
narrowness
straight and narrow
strait and narrow
western narrow-mouthed toad
Antonyms of verb narrow
1 of 4 senses of narrow
Sense 1
narrow, contract
Antonym of widen (Sense 1)
=>widen
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb narrow
4 senses of narrow
Sense 1
narrow, contract
=> change
Also See> narrow down#2
Sense 2
pin down, peg down, nail down, narrow down, narrow, specify
=> determine
=> specify, define, delineate, delimit, delimitate
=> be
Sense 3
specialize, specialise, narrow, narrow down
=> change, alter, vary
Sense 4
constrict, constringe, narrow
=> tighten
=> change
Troponyms (hyponyms) of verb narrow
4 senses of narrow
Sense 1
narrow, contract
=> bottleneck
=> taper off
Sense 2
pin down, peg down, nail down, narrow down, narrow, specify
=> concretize
Sense 3
specialize, specialise, narrow, narrow down
=> overspecialize, overspecialise
Sense 4
constrict, constringe, narrow
=> astringe
=> strangulate
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb narrow
4 senses of narrow
Sense 1
narrow, contract
=> change
Also See> narrow down#2
Sense 2
pin down, peg down, nail down, narrow down, narrow, specify
=> determine
Sense 3
specialize, specialise, narrow, narrow down
=> change, alter, vary
Sense 4
constrict, constringe, narrow
=> tighten
'Cause To' of verb narrow
Derived Forms of verb narrow
2 of 4 senses of narrow
Sense 1
narrow, contract
RELATED TO>(noun) narrow#1
=> narrow
RELATED TO>(noun) narrowing#3
=> narrowing
Sense 4
constrict, constringe, narrow
RELATED TO>(noun) narrowing#1
=> narrowing
Domain of verb narrow
Domain Terms of verb narrow
Familiarity of verb narrow
narrow used as a verb is uncommon (polysemy count =4)
Sample Sentences of verb narrow
4 senses of narrow
Sense 1
narrow, contract
*> Something ----s
*> Somebody ----s something
*> Something ----s something
Sense 2
pin down, peg down, nail down, narrow down, narrow, specify
*> Somebody ----s something
*> Somebody ----s something PP
Sense 3
specialize, specialise, narrow, narrow down
*> Something ----s
*> Somebody ----s
*> Something is ----ing PP
*> Somebody ----s PP
Sense 4
constrict, constringe, narrow
*> Something ----s
*> Somebody ----s something
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of verb narrow
4 senses of narrow
Sense 1
narrow, contract
> change
=> freshen, refresh, refreshen, freshen up
=> dress, get dressed
=> grow, develop, produce, get, acquire
=> regenerate
=> gel
=> brutalize, brutalise, animalize, animalise
=> convert
=> creolize
=> mutate
=> have, experience
=> decrepitate
=> suburbanize, suburbanise
=> roll, roll up
=> glaze, glass, glass over, glaze over
=> turn, grow
=> barbarize, barbarise
=> alkalinize, alkalinise
=> change by reversal, turn, reverse
=> change integrity
=> change shape, change form, deform
=> form
=> change state, turn
=> adjust, conform, adapt
=> rise, jump, climb up
=> assimilate
=> dissimilate
=> dissimilate
=> change magnitude
=> modify
=> deaden
=> break
=> decay, crumble, delapidate
=> mold, mildew
=> hydrate
=> dry, dry out
=> strengthen
=> distill, distil
=> deoxidize, deoxidise, reduce
=> crack
=> oxidize, oxidise, oxidate
=> oxidise, oxidize, oxidate
=> grow
=> mellow, melt, mellow out
=> soften
=> ionize, ionise
=> stabilize, stabilise
=> destabilize, destabilise
=> lighten, lighten up
=> discolor, discolour, colour, color
=> discolor
=> narrow, contract
=> darken
=> brighten, lighten
=> dim
=> crack, check, break
=> transpire
=> resume, take up
=> change surface
=> sublime, sublimate
=> cool, cool off, cool down
=> warm up
=> warm, warm up
=> transform, transmute, metamorphose
=> convert
=> dull
=> complexify, ramify
=> Americanize, Americanise
=> modernize, modernise, develop
=> stiffen
=> tighten
=> fail, go bad, give way, die, give out, conk out, go, break, break down
=> give way, yield
=> harden, indurate
=> harden, indurate
=> suffuse
=> hush
=> normalize, normalise
=> reorient
=> purify
=> digest
=> regress
=> foul
=> decalcify
=> industrialize, industrialise
=> decarboxylate
=> spot
=> receive, get, find, obtain, incur
=> acetylate, acetylize, acetylise
=> assume, acquire, adopt, take on, take
=> prim
=> capacitate
=> caseate
=> caseate
=> clinker
=> cure
=> dawn
=> salinate
=> desalinate, desalt, desalinize, desalinise
=> shallow, shoal
=> steepen
=> superannuate
=> ulcerate
=> vitrify
=> vulcanize, vulcanise
=> pall, dull
=> die, pall, become flat
=> saponify
=> move, go, run
=> come
=> catch
=> catch on
=> develop, grow
=> fly
=> develop, acquire, evolve
=> assibilate
=> smoothen
=> turn on
=> drop
=> break into
=> deepen, change
=> concretize, concretise
=> decay
=> commute, transpose
=> introject
=> shift
=> swing
=> fall
=> fall
=> reflate
=> hydrolyze, hydrolyse
=> fold, fold up
=> gelatinize, gelatinise
=> felt, felt up, mat up, matt-up, matte up, matte, mat
=> recombine
=> feminize, feminise
=> obsolesce
=> plasticize, plasticise
=> recede
=> defervesce
=> incandesce
=> calcify
=> drift
=> play out
=> conjugate
=> isomerize, isomerise
=> evaporate, vaporise
=> indurate
=> gradate
=> keratinize, keratinise
=> opacify
=> mature
=> rejuvenate
=> sequester
=> transaminate
=> vesiculate
=> undulate
=> vascularize, vascularise
=> crash
=> professionalize, professionalise
=> shift
=> flip, flip out
=> gum
=> synthesize
=> come round, come around
=> promote
=> separate, divide, part
=> format, arrange
=> fall for
=> move up, rise
=> change posture
=> settle
=> collapse, fall in, cave in, give, give way, break, founder
=> solarize, solarise
=> occult
=> pass
=> leave, depart, pull up stakes
=> liberalize, liberalise
=> stratify
=> democratize, democratise
=> relax, loosen
=> reticulate
=> flocculate
=> carbonate
=> come in
=> go out
=> stagnate
=> make
=> ice up, frost over, ice over
Sense 2
pin down, peg down, nail down, narrow down, narrow, specify
> determine
=> pin down, peg down, nail down, narrow down, narrow, specify
Sense 3
specialize, specialise, narrow, narrow down
> change, alter, vary
=> alternate, jump
=> crackle
=> modulate
=> avianize, avianise
=> move
=> adapt, accommodate
=> let out, widen
=> take in
=> diversify, branch out, broaden
=> diversify, radiate
=> specialize, specialise, narrow, narrow down
=> honeycomb
=> break
Sense 4
constrict, constringe, narrow
> tighten
=> constrict, constringe, narrow
=> tauten, firm
=> compress, constrict, squeeze, compact, contract, press
=> strain, tense
Synonyms (Grouped by Similarity of Meaning) of verb narrow
Sense 1
narrow, contract
=> change
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Sense 2
pin down, peg down, nail down, narrow down, narrow, specify
=> determine
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Sense 3
specialize, specialise, narrow, narrow down
=> change, alter, vary
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Sense 4
constrict, constringe, narrow
=> tighten
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Grep of verb narrow
narrow
narrow down
Antonyms of adj narrow
5 senses of narrow
Sense 1
narrow (vs. wide)
wide (vs. narrow), broad
=> beamy
=> bird's-eye, panoramic
=> broad-brimmed
=> deep
=> fanlike
=> sweeping
=> wide-screen(prenominal)
Sense 2
narrow
INDIRECT (VIA limited) -> unlimited, limitless
Sense 3
narrow-minded (vs. broad-minded), narrow
Sense 4
narrow (vs. wide)
wide (vs. narrow)
=> comfortable
Sense 5
minute, narrow
INDIRECT (VIA careful) -> careless
Similarity of adj narrow
5 senses of narrow
Sense 1
narrow (vs. wide)
=> constricting, constrictive, narrowing
=> narrowed
=> narrow-mouthed
=> slender, thin
=> strait
=> straplike
=> tapered, tapering, narrowing
Also See> limited#1; narrow-minded#2, narrow#3; thin#1
Sense 2
narrow
=> limited (vs. unlimited)
Sense 3
narrow-minded (vs. broad-minded), narrow
=> close-minded, closed-minded
=> dogmatic, dogmatical
=> illiberal, intolerant
=> opinionated, opinionative, self-opinionated
=> petty, small-minded
Also See> narrow#1
Sense 4
narrow (vs. wide)
=> bare(prenominal), marginal
Sense 5
minute, narrow
=> careful (vs. careless)
Pertainyms of adj narrow
Attributes of adj narrow
1 of 5 senses of narrow
Sense 1
narrow (vs. wide)
=> width, breadth
Domain of adj narrow
Domain Terms of adj narrow
Familiarity of adj narrow
narrow used as an adjective is common (polysemy count =5)
Grep of adj narrow
narrow
narrow-bodied
narrow-minded
narrow-mouthed
narrowed
narrowing
Grep of adv narrow
narrow-mindedly
narrowly
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