Palabra Inglés del Día

Definiciones

inglés > español
narrow
1. adj. Estrecho, angosto.
2. adj. Escaso, limitado.
3. Angostar, estrechar.
4. s. Estrecho.
inglés > inglés
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. s. (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
español > inglés
estrecho
1. adj. narrow
2. adj. tight
3. adj. (of a relative) close, kin
4. adj. (of a relationship) close, intimate, strong
5. adj. prudish, uptight, strict
6. n-m. (geography) strait

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Ejemplos

He met with a traffic accident and had a narrow escape from death.      Él tuvo un accidente de tráfico y escapó de la muerte por los pelos. Have you ever had a narrow escape?      ¿Te has salvado alguna vez por los pelos? We walked along a narrow path.      Nosotros caminamos a través de un camino estrecho. The gate is so narrow that the car can't pass through it.      El portón es tan angosto que el auto no puede pasar. The road is too narrow for cars.      El camino es muy estrecho para los autos.

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