small : Idioms & Phrases

• adverb by a short distance
  little by little; by inches.
  
  • they moved it by inches

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• of all ranks or degrees; used especially of persons. "His quests, great and small." Chaucer.

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• adjective satellite one thing at a time
  stepwise; bit-by-bit; piecemeal; step-by-step.
  

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• muskets, rifles, pistols, etc., in distinction from cannon.

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• noun something of small importance
  trifle; trivia; triviality.
  

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• . See under Beer.

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• noun a boat that is small
  

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• noun an independent agency of the United States government that protects the interests of small businesses and ensures that they receive a fair share of government contracts
  SBA.
  

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• noun a businessman who runs a business employing less than 100 people
  

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• noun unit of heat defined as the quantity of heat required to raise the temperature of 1 gram of water by 1 degree centigrade at atmospheric pressure
  calorie; gram calorie.
  

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• noun small cane of watery or moist areas in southern United States
  Arundinaria tecta; switch cane.
  

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• noun a corporation with a small capitalization
  
  • this annual conference is a showcase for ambitious small caps
• noun a character having the form of an upper-case letter but the same height as lower-case letters
  small cap.
  

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• noun a character having the form of an upper-case letter but the same height as lower-case letters
  small cap.
  

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• noun highly malignant carcinoma composed of small round or egg-shaped cells with little cytoplasm; lung cancers are frequently oat cell carcinomas
  oat cell carcinoma.
  

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• noun a trifling sum of money
  chump change; chickenfeed.
  

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• noun a common civet of southeast Asia
  Viverricula indica; Viverricula malaccensis.
  

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• . (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.

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• noun interface consisting of a standard port between a computer and its peripherals that is used in some computers
  SCSI.
  

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• (Naut.), a vessel, or vessels in general, of a small size.

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• noun small red-fruited trailing cranberry of Arctic and cool regions of the northern hemisphere
  Vaccinium oxycoccus; European cranberry.
  

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• noun a farmer on a small farm
  

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• noun a large sum of money
  
  • he made a small fortune in the commodities market

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• . See under Fruit.

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• noun someone who is small and insignificant
  pip-squeak; squirt.
  
• noun a young person of either sex
  tiddler; nipper; tyke; nestling; youngster; child; fry; shaver; tike; minor; kid.
  
  • she writes books for children
  • they're just kids
  • `tiddler' is a British term for youngster

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• a certain size of paper. See under Paper.

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• noun the hours just after midnight
  

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• . See under Hour.

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• noun an indefinite quantity that is below average size or magnitude
  small indefinite amount.
  

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• noun an indefinite quantity that is below average size or magnitude
  small indefinite amount.
  

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• noun the longest part of the alimentary canal; where digestion is completed
  

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• noun the characters that were once kept in bottom half of a compositor's type case
  minuscule; lowercase; lower-case letter.
  

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• . (Print.), a lower-case letter. See Lower-case, and Capital letter, under Capital, a.

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• noun a finance company that makes loans to people who have trouble getting a bank loan
  consumer finance company.
  

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• noun the smaller of the two Magellanic Clouds visible from the southern hemisphere
  

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• noun a person of below average size
  

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• a Scotch coin worth about 2¼d. sterling, or about 4½cents.

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• noun the part of a contract that contains reservations and qualifications that are often printed in small type
  fine print.
  
  • don't sign a contract without reading the fine print
• noun material printed in small type
  fine print.
  
  • he needed his glasses in order to read the fine print

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• . See the Note under 1st Register, 7.

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• noun a ship that is small
  

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• noun winning all but one of the tricks in a hand of bridge
  little slam.
  

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• noun personal items conforming to regulations that are sold aboard ship or at a naval base and charged to the person's pay
  

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• noun any light rope used on shipboard
  

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• (Naut.), spun yarn, marline, and the smallest kinds of rope. R. H. Dana, Jr.
• (Naut.), all kinds of small cordage. Ham. Nav. Encyc.

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• noun light informal conversation for social occasions
  chin wag; chit-chat; chitchat; chin-wagging; causerie; chin-wag; gabfest; chin wagging; chit chat; tittle-tattle; gossip; gab.
  

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• light or trifling conversation; chitchat.

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• noun a community of people smaller than a town
  settlement; village.
  

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• noun an inner voice that judges your behavior
  voice of conscience; small voice.
  

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• (Com.), various small textile articles, as tapes, braid, tringe, and the like. M`Culloch.

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• noun small widely distributed form
  Pieris rapae.
  

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• noun a variety of aster
  

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• noun a portable gun
  piece; firearm.
  
  • he wore his firearm in a shoulder holster

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• adjective of stocks of companies with a market capitalization of less than one billion dollars
  small-cap; small-capitalisation.
  

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• adjective of stocks of companies with a market capitalization of less than one billion dollars
  small-cap; small-capitalisation.
  

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• adjective of stocks of companies with a market capitalization of less than one billion dollars
  small-cap; small-capitalisation.
  

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• adjective satellite having small ears
  

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• noun an infant whose size and weight are considerably less than the average for babies of the same age
  SGA infant.
  

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• adjective satellite bearing small fruit
  

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• adjective satellite consisting of fine particles
  powdery; pulverised; fine-grained; pulverized; powdered.
  
  • powdered cellulose
  • powdery snow
  • pulverized sugar is prepared from granulated sugar by grinding

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• noun large spreading European linden with small dark green leaves; often cultivated as an ornamental
  small-leaved lime; Tilia cordata.
  

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• noun large spreading European linden with small dark green leaves; often cultivated as an ornamental
  small-leaved lime; Tilia cordata.
  

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• adjective satellite contemptibly narrow in outlook
  petty.
  
  • petty little comments
  • disgusted with their small-minded pettiness

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• adverb in a narrow-minded manner
  narrow-mindedly.
  
  • narrow-mindedly, the authorities closed down the cafe where teenagers used to hang out

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• noun air pollution caused by fine particles of soot (as from power plants or diesel engines)
  

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• adjective satellite created or drawn on a small scale
  
  • small-scale maps
  • a small-scale model
• adjective satellite limited in size or scope
  pocket-size; pocket-sized; modest; small; minor.
  
  • a small business
  • a newspaper with a modest circulation
  • small-scale plans
  • a pocket-size country

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• adjective satellite having relatively small seeds
  

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• adjective satellite of minor importance
  nickel-and-dime.
  
  • a nickel-and-dime operation run out of a single rented room
  • a small-time actor

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• adjective satellite having small teeth
  

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• adjective satellite having small wings
  

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• noun a skeletal muscle that draws down the scapula or raises the ribs
  musculus pectoralis minor; pectoralis minor.
  

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• the early hours of the morning, as one o'clock, two o'clock, etc. also "wee hours"

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• noun an inner voice that judges your behavior
  voice of conscience; small voice.
  

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