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narrow
1. adj. Étroit.
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narrow
1. adj. Having a small width; not wide; having opposite edges or sides that are close, especially by comparison to length or depth.
a narrow hallway
2. adj. Of little extent; very limited; circumscribed.
3. adj. (figuratively) Restrictive; without flexibility or latitude.
a narrow interpretation
4. adj. Contracted; of limited scope; bigoted
a narrow mind
narrow views
5. adj. Having a small margin or degree.
a narrow escape
The Republicans won by a narrow majority.
6. adj. (dated) Limited as to means; straitened
narrow circumstances
7. adj. Parsimonious; niggardly; covetous; selfish.
8. adj. Scrutinizing in detail; close; accurate; exact.
9. adj. (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.
10. v. To reduce in width or extent; to contract.
We need to narrow the search.
11. v. (intransitive) To get narrower.
The road narrows.
12. v. (of a person or eyes) To partially lower one's eyelids in a way usually taken to suggest a defensive, aggressive or penetrating look.
He stepped in front of me, narrowing his eyes to slits.
She wagged her finger in his face, and her eyes narrowed.
13. v. (knitting) To contract the size of, as a stocking, by taking two stitches into one.
14. n. (chiefly in the plural) A narrow passage, especially a contracted part of a stream, lake, or sea; a strait connecting two bodies of water.
the Narrows of New York harbor
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étroit
1. adj. narrow

Exemples de phrases

Can you narrow that down a little?      Tu peux être un peu plus précis? She had a narrow escape yesterday.      Elle l'a échappé belle hier. Why do physicists converge? Because they're monotonous and narrow.      Pourquoi les physiciens sont-ils convergents? Parce qu'ils sont monotones et bornés. What narrow stairs!      Qu'est-ce qu'ils sont étroits ces escaliers! Don't let narrow-minded people convince you that your dreams are too big.      Ne laisse pas des gens étroits d'esprit te convaincre que tes rêves sont trop grands.

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