Small

7 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Small \Small\, adv.
     1. In or to small extent, quantity, or degree; little;
        slightly. [Obs.] "I wept but small." --Chaucer. "It small
        avails my mood." --Shak.
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     2. Not loudly; faintly; timidly. [Obs. or Humorous]
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              You may speak as small as you will.   --Shak.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Small \Small\, n.
     1. The small or slender part of a thing; as, the small of the
        leg or of the back.
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     2. pl. Smallclothes. [Colloq.] --Hood. Dickens.
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     3. pl. Same as {Little go}. See under {Little}, a.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Small \Small\ (sm[add]l), a. [Compar. {Smaller}
     (sm[add]l"[~e]r); superl. {Smallest}.] [OE. small, AS. smael;
     akin to D. smal narrow, OS. & OHG. smal small, G. schmal
     narrow, Dan. & Sw. smal, Goth. smals small, Icel. smali small
     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.
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              To compare
              Great things with small.              --Milton.
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     2. Being of slight consequence; feeble in influence or
        importance; unimportant; trivial; insignificant; as, a
        small fault; a small business.
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     3. Envincing little worth or ability; not large-minded; --
        sometimes, in reproach, paltry; mean.
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              A true delineation of the smallest man is capable of
              interesting the greatest man.         --Carlyle.
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     4. Not prolonged in duration; not extended in time; short;
        as, after a small space. --Shak.
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     5. Weak; slender; fine; gentle; soft; not loud. "A still,
        small voice." --1 Kings xix. 12.
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     {Great and small},of all ranks or degrees; -- used especially
        of persons. "His quests, great and small." --Chaucer.
  
     {Small arms}, muskets, rifles, pistols, etc., in distinction
        from cannon.
  
     {Small beer}. See under {Beer}.
  
     {Small coal}.
        (a) Little coals of wood formerly used to light fires.
            --Gay.
        (b) Coal about the size of a hazelnut, separated from the
            coarser parts by screening.
  
     {Small craft} (Naut.), a vessel, or vessels in general, of a
        small size.
  
     {Small fruits}. See under {Fruit}.
  
     {Small hand}, a certain size of paper. See under {Paper}.
  
     {Small hours}. See under {Hour}.
  
     {Small letter}. (Print.), a lower-case letter. See
        {Lower-case}, and {Capital letter}, under {Capital}, a.
  
     {Small piece}, a Scotch coin worth about 21/4d. sterling, or
        about 41/2cents.
  
     {Small register}. See the Note under 1st {Register}, 7.
  
     {Small stuff} (Naut.), spun yarn, marline, and the smallest
        kinds of rope. --R. H. Dana, Jr.
  
     {Small talk}, light or trifling conversation; chitchat.
  
     {Small wares} (Com.), various small textile articles, as
        tapes, braid, tringe, and the like. --M`Culloch.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Small \Small\, v. t.
     To make little or less. [Obs.]
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  small
       adj 1: 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"; "a small
              voice" [syn: {little}] [ant: {large}, {large}]
       2: limited in size or scope; "a small business"; "a newspaper
          with a modest circulation"; "small-scale plans"; "a
          pocket-size country" [syn: {minor}, {modest}, {small-scale},
           {pocket-size}, {pocket-sized}]
       3: low or inferior in station or quality; "a humble cottage";
          "a lowly parish priest"; "a modest man of the people";
          "small beginnings" [syn: {humble}, {low}, {lowly}, {modest}]
       4: not fully grown; "what a big little boy you are"; "small
          children" [syn: {little}]
       5: too small to be seen except under a microscope [syn: {microscopic},
           {microscopical}] [ant: {macroscopic}]
       6: not large but sufficient in size or amount; "a modest
          salary"; "modest inflation"; "helped in my own small way"
          [syn: {modest}]
       7: (of a voice) faint; "a little voice"; "a still small voice"
          [syn: {little}]
       8: slight or limited; especially in degree or intensity or
          scope; "a series of death struggles with small time in
          between" [syn: {small(a)}]
       9: made to seem smaller or less (especially in worth); "her
          comments made me feel small" [syn: {belittled}, {diminished}]
       10: lowercase; "little a"; "small a"; "e.e.cummings's poetry is
           written all in minuscule letters" [syn: {little}, {minuscule}]
       11: have fine or very small constituent particles; "a small
           misty rain"
       n 1: the slender part of the back
       2: a garment size for a small person
       adv : on a small scale; "think small" [ant: {big}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  291 Moby Thesaurus words for "small":
     Lenten, Lilliputian, Spartan, abject, abominable, abstemious, airy,
     arrant, ascetic, atrocious, attenuate, attenuated, austere,
     authoritarian, baby, back-burner, bantam, base, beggarly, bigot,
     bigoted, borne, boyish, cheap, cheesy, close, closed, commonplace,
     constricted, contemptible, cramped, creedbound, crummy, cursory,
     deaf, deaf to reason, debased, deficient, degraded, delicate,
     depraved, depthless, despicable, diaphanous, diluted, diminished,
     diminutive, dinky, dirty, disgusting, dispensable, dwarfed,
     dwarfish, elfin, ethereal, everyday, execrable, exiguous,
     fanatical, few, fine, fine-drawn, finespun, flagrant, flat, flimsy,
     footling, foul, frail, frugal, fulsome, gauzy, girlish, gossamer,
     gracile, grave, gross, grudging, half-pint, heinous, hidebound,
     homely, humble, humble-looking, humble-visaged, humblest,
     illiberal, immaterial, immature, imperfect, impoverished,
     in a nutshell, in miniature, in the small, inadequate,
     inappreciable, incompetent, inconsequential, inconsiderable,
     inessential, inferior, inglorious, innocuous, insignificant,
     insubstantial, insufficient, insular, irrelevant, jejune,
     knee-high, lacy, lean, least, lesser, light, limited, little,
     little-minded, low, low-down, lowest, lowliest, lowly, lumpen,
     maladroit, mangy, matter-of-fact, meager, mean, mean-minded,
     mean-spirited, measly, mediocre, midget, mingy, mini, miniature,
     minor, minuscule, minute, miserable, miserly, misty, modest,
     monkey, monstrous, mundane, narrow, narrow-hearted, narrow-minded,
     narrow-souled, narrow-spirited, nearsighted, nefarious, negligible,
     niggardly, no great shakes, nonessential, not comparable,
     not in it, not vital, nugatory, obnoxious, odious, one-horse,
     out of it, paltry, papery, parochial, parsimonious, peewee, petit,
     petite, petty, picayune, picayunish, piddling, pindling,
     pint-sized, plain, pocket-sized, poky, poor, provincial, puny,
     purblind, rank, rare, rarefied, reduced, reptilian, scabby, scant,
     scanty, scrawny, scrimp, scrimpy, scrubby, scruffy, scummy, scurvy,
     secondary, selfish, shabby, shallow, shoddy, short, shortsighted,
     simple, skimp, skimpy, skin-deep, slender, slenderish, slight,
     slight-made, slightly, slim, slimmish, slinky, small-minded,
     small-scale, smallish, smally, spare, sparing, squalid, starvation,
     stingy, stinted, stinting, straitened, straitlaced, stuffy,
     stunted, subsistence, subtle, superficial, svelte, sylphlike,
     teachable, technical, teeny, tenuous, thin, thin-bodied, thin-set,
     thin-spun, thinnish, threadlike, tight, tight-fisted, tiny,
     trifling, trivial, two-by-four, two-dimensional, uncatholic,
     uncharitable, unchivalrous, undersized, undistinguished,
     unessential, ungenerous, unimaginative, unimportant, unimpressive,
     uninspired, unliberal, unmentionable, unnoteworthy, unnourishing,
     unnutritious, unoriginal, unpretentious, unprofound,
     unsatisfactory, unskillful, vague, vile, wasp-waisted, watered,
     watered-down, watery, weak, wee, willowy, wiredrawn, wispy,
     wretched, young
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [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].