narrow

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. adj. Of small or limited width, especially in comparison with length.
2. adj. Limited in area or scope; cramped.
3. adj. Lacking flexibility; rigid: narrow opinions.
4. adj. Barely sufficient; close: a narrow margin of victory.
5. adj. Painstakingly thorough or attentive; meticulous: narrow scrutiny.
6. adj. Linguistics Tense.
7. v. To reduce in width or extent; make narrower.
8. v. To limit or restrict: narrowed the possibilities down to three.
9. v. To become narrower; contract.
10. n. A part of little width, as a pass through mountains.
11. n. A body of water with little width that connects two larger bodies of water.
12. n. A part of a river or an ocean current that is not wide.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. Of little width or breadth; measuring relatively little from side to side; not wide or broad: as, a narrow channel or passage; a narrow ribbon.
2. Limited as regards extent, resources, means, sentiment, mental view, scope, individual disposition, or habits, etc. Small; confined; circumscribed.
3. Straitened; limited; impoverished: as, narrow fortune.
4. Contracted; lacking breadth or liberality of view; illiberal; bigoted.
5. Niggardly; avaricious; covetous.
6. Close; bare; so small or close as to be almost inadequate; barely sufficient: as, a narrow majority or escape (that is, a majority so small or an escape so close as almost to fail of being a majority or an escape).
7. Close; near; accurate; scrutinizing; careful; minute.
8. Restricted or brief, with reference to time.
9. Synonyms and Cramped, pinched, scanty, mean.
10. n. A strait; a narrow passage through a mountain, or a narrow channel of water between one sea or lake and another; a sound; any contracted part of a navigable river or harbor: used chiefly in the plural: as, the Narrows at the entrance of New York harbor.
11. n. A contracted part of an ocean current: usually in the plural: as, the narrows of the Gulf Stream at the south point of Florida.
12. n. plural In coal-mining, roadways or galleries driven at right angles to drifts, and smaller than these in section.
13. Narrowly.
14. To make narrow or contracted; reduce in breadth or scope: as, to narrow one's sphere of action.
15. Specifically In knitting, to reduce the number of stitches of: opposed to widen: as, to narrow a stocking at the toe.
16. To become narrow, literally or figuratively.
17. In the manège, to take less than the proper ground in stepping, or bear out insufficiently to the one hand or the other: said of a horse.
18. In knitting, to reduce the number of stitches, either by knitting two together or by slipping one and binding it over the next: as, when you reach this point you must narrow.
19. See nary.

Wiktionary

1. adj. having a small width; not wide; slim; slender; having opposite edges or sides that are close, especially by comparison to length or depth.
2. adj. figuratively Restrictive; without flexibility or latitude.
3. adj. Having a small margin or degree.
4. v. transitive To reduce in width or extent; to contract.
5. v. intransitive To get narrower.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. adj. Of little breadth; not wide or broad; having little distance from side to side
2. adj. Of little extent; very limited; circumscribed.
3. adj. Having but a little margin; having barely sufficient space, time, or number, etc.; close; near{5}; -- with special reference to some peril or misfortune
4. adj. Limited as to means; straitened; pinching.
5. adj. Contracted; of limited scope; illiberal; bigoted.
6. adj. Parsimonious; niggardly; covetous; selfish.
7. adj. Scrutinizing in detail; close; accurate; exact.
8. adj. (Phon.) 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 ē (ēve) and � (f�d), etc., from ĭ (ĭll) and � (f�t), etc. See Guide to Pronunciation, §13.
9. n. A narrow passage; esp., a contracted part of a stream, lake, or sea; a strait connecting two bodies of water; -- usually in the plural.
10. v. To lessen the breadth of; to contract; to draw into a smaller compass; to reduce the width or extent of.
11. v. To contract the reach or sphere of; to make less liberal or more selfish; to limit; to confine; to restrict
12. v. (Knitting) To contract the size of, as a stocking, by taking two stitches into one.
13. v. To become less broad; to contract; to become narrower.
14. v. (Man.) Not to step out enough to the one hand or the other.
15. v. (Knitting) To contract the size of a stocking or other knit article, by taking two stitches into one.

WordNet 3.0

1. adj. not wide
2. n. a narrow strait connecting two bodies of water
3. adj. lacking tolerance or flexibility or breadth of view
4. v. make or become more narrow or restricted
5. v. define clearly
6. v. become more focus on an area of activity or field of study
7. v. become tight or as if tight
8. adj. very limited in degree
9. adj. characterized by painstaking care and detailed examination
10. adj. limited in size or scope