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Meaning of small

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  small
      adv 1: on a small scale; "think small" [ant: {big}]
      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" [syn:
             {small}, {little}] [ant: {big}, {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}, {small-
         scale}, {pocket-size}, {pocket-sized}]
      3: (of children and animals) young, immature; "what a big little
         boy you are"; "small children" [syn: {little}, {small}]
      4: slight or limited; especially in degree or intensity or
         scope; "a series of death struggles with small time in
         between"
      5: 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},
         {small}]
      6: lowercase; "little a"; "small a"; "e.e.cummings's poetry is
         written all in minuscule letters" [syn: {little},
         {minuscule}, {small}]
      7: (of a voice) faint; "a little voice"; "a still small voice"
         [syn: {little}, {small}]
      8: have fine or very small constituent particles; "a small misty
         rain"
      9: not large but sufficient in size or amount; "a modest
         salary"; "modest inflation"; "helped in my own small way"
         [syn: {modest}, {small}]
      10: made to seem smaller or less (especially in worth); "her
          comments made me feel small" [syn: {belittled},
          {diminished}, {small}]
      n 1: the slender part of the back
      2: a garment size for a small person

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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