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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Small \Small\ (sm[add]l), adjective [Compar. {Smaller}; superl. {Smallest}.] [OE. small, AS. sm[ae]l; akin to D. smal narrow, OS. & OHG. smal small, G. schmal narrow, Dan. & Sw. smal, Goth. smals small, Icel. smali smal 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.
To compare Great things with small. --Milton.
2. Being of slight consequence; feeble in influence or importance; unimportant; trivial; insignificant; as, a small fault; a small business.
3. Envincing little worth or ability; not large-minded; -- sometimes, in reproach, paltry; mean.
A true delineation of the smallest man is capable of interesting the greatest man. --Carlyle.
4. Not prolonged in duration; not extended in time; short; as, after a small space. --Shak.
5. Weak; slender; fine; gentle; soft; not loud. ''A still, small voice.'' --1 Kings xix. 12.
{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}, adjective
{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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Small \Small\, noun
1. The small or slender part of a thing; as, the small of the leg or of the back.
2. pl. Smallclothes. [Colloq.] --Hood. Dickens.
3. pl. Same as {Little go}. See under {Little}, adjective
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Small \Small\, verb (used with an object) To make little or less. [Obs.]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Small \Small\, adverb
1. In or to small extent, quantity, or degree; little; slightly. [Obs.] ''I wept but small.'' --Chaucer. ''It small avails my mood.'' --Shak.
2. Not loudly; faintly; timidly. [Obs. or Humorous]
You may speak as small as you will. --Shak.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
small
adjective
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"
noun
1: the slender part of the back
2: a garment size for a small person
adverb: 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].
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