Narrowing

verb

Word Frequency: 3.0

Definitions

1.verbTo reduce in width or extent; to contract.

"We need to narrow the search."

2.verbTo get narrower.

"The road narrows."

3.verb(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."

4.verbTo contract the size of, as a stocking, by taking two stitches into one.

5.verbTo convert to a data type that cannot hold as many distinct values.

"to narrow an int variable to a short variable"

6.nounThe process of becoming narrow.

"narrowings of the road"

7.nounThe part of a stocking that is narrowed.

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