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ADJECTIVE small COMPARATIVE smaller SUPERLATIVE smallest
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Meaning small meaning

What does small mean?
Definitions in simple English

small

Small means little, not big. The number of inches or centimetres from one end of it to the other end is not many. A mouse is a small animal. A baby mouse is very small.

small

(= little) 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 (= modest, small-scale, pocket-size, pocket-sized) limited in size or scope a small business a newspaper with a modest circulation small-scale plans a pocket-size country (= little) (of children and animals) young, immature what a big little boy you are small children slight or limited; especially in degree or intensity or scope a series of death struggles with small time in between the slender part of the back (= little) (of a voice) faint a little voice a still small voice (= little, minuscule) lowercase little a small a e.e.cummings's poetry is written all in minuscule letters (= humble, low, lowly, modest) low or inferior in station or quality a humble cottage a lowly parish priest a modest man of the people small beginnings have fine or very small constituent particles a small misty rain on a small scale think small a garment size for a small person (= modest) not large but sufficient in size or amount a modest salary modest inflation helped in my own small way made to seem smaller or less (especially in worth) her comments made me feel small

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Simple sentences

Whales feed on small fish.
Small children are very curious.
In comparison with Tokyo, London is small.
Small hills look flat from an airplane.
Isn't it a bit small?
He widened his small circle of friends.
Would you like big bills or small bills?
Tom has a small dick.
The probability of Tom being punished is very small.
This loaf of bread is small.
He founded a small association in the Czech Republic.
It's time for small children to go to bed now.
The small seed became a large tree.
These gloves are too small for me.
My shoes are too small. I need new ones.
Spenser's mother often scrutinizes him for every small mistake he makes.
A small forest fire can easily spread and quickly become a great conflagration.
When we are small, everything seems so big.
Do you have difficulty understanding what women or small children say to you?
Never lose sight of the importance of a beautiful sunrise, or watching your kids sleep, or the smell of rain. It's often the small things that really matter in life.
If you take care of the small things, the big things will take care of themselves.
You may take either the big box or the small one.
During the vacation my sister and I stayed at a small village at the foot of Mt. Fuji.
It's a small noisy apartment, but it's where I live and I call it home.
Our baseball diamond is very small.
There is a small garden in front of my house.
I have chubby fingers, so I can't use a small keyboard.
The small island looked like a tortoise from a distance.
Compared with yours, my car is small.
Your feet are swollen because your shoes are too small.
A small stream ran down among the rocks.
Our boat approached the small island.

Movie subtitles

If there is a small change, she will get rid of us.
Even if you say the military, it's only a small portion of it.
We don't know that life has to evolve on the surface of small, rocky planets.
In the hunt for alien life, scientists are focusing their efforts on finding small, rocky planets like Earth.
Because, from trillions of kilometres away, these small planets get lost in the blinding glare of their star's brightness.
When this planet passes in front of the star, it blocks out a tiny fraction of the light, dimming the star by a very small amount.
Are we simply one small piece in the cosmicjigsaw puzzle or are we truly the only special beings in this vast universe?
Aah! Wow, you're really small.
Small amount.
Again, small amount.suctioned.
So, we are looking at a small kidney with a crazy arterial network.
Okay, well, um, I was born in Prescott, but I knew a small town wasn't for me, so I moved to the big city.
There's a small place in South Pasadena.
You're small, but you got those British-nanny-sized boobs.
We were put in a small room, door locked, curtains closed, and we sat silently all day long.
But back then there was only a small number of participants, because students could not attend and also because travel was difficult during the war.
We also determined the small errors that still remained, So that we could correct for them.
There was a small cabin next to the telescope where I worked.
But small-scale farming won't turn Algeria into Beauce.
Last seen with a little man with large flat fleet and small moustache.
And I'd like to see you small and low and poor, far beneath me, reachable to my feet.
The small angular symbol, noticeable under the drawing, was usually carved into the barn door as protection against witches.
One summer morning,in a small country town.
Small house - great fortune!
My pants are too small.
Your pants are too small?
Although gravely wounded by the knife that had pierced her, the victim tried to defend herself with a small revolver.
Because I'm small.
This is no difference from a small scaled war.
Dad was? As a small token of gratitude, I would like to help with your wedding.
I'm small.
The third one's small.
I mean, sometimes I hate my small boobs.
No wonder my boobs are so small.
Then, Barry and Kelly, you're gonna bump into her and start small talk to keep her inside the store.
Now then, ladies, can I offer you a small glass of something, just to wet the baby's head?
His leg will be in a cast and he'll be on crutches, which generally makes life quite exciting for small boys.

News and current affairs

But even small terrorist successes are costly in terms of lives, money, and making open societies less so.
Rarely has a small country been represented by a statesman of such world stature: only Thomas Masaryk and Jan Smuts come to mind to compare with him.
It assures the three small Baltic countries that the nightmare of occupation by big neighbors (Hitler's Reich and Stalin's USSR), which they endured for half-a-century -- will not be repeated.
The civil rights of the Russian minorities in the Baltics and elsewhere are now enshrined in law, due in no small part to NATO demands.
This small piece of Russia, with 1 million inhabitants and bordering on the Baltic Sea, is squeezed between Poland and Lithuania, two future members of the EU.
Metropolitan agriculture in a rapidly urbanizing world can provide high-quality produce on small amounts of land.
But the Bank does not yet have sufficient funds to meet these countries' urgent needs, and has had to ration assistance to a small fraction of the flows that could be effectively and reliably used.
Many rainforest countries have united in recent years to suggest the establishment of a rainforest conservation fund by the rich countries, to pay impoverished small farmers a small amount of money to preserve the forest.
At the same time, small farmers would receive a steady flow of income, which they could use for micro-investments to improve their household's wealth, education, and health.
In addition, the EU should create a small but effective military force (say, 5,000 troops) to back up the common body's decisions.
Small changes in practices, when replicated by hundreds of millions of people, can make an enormous difference.
The Internet's creators, part of a small, enclosed community, were very comfortable with an open system in which security was not a primary concern.
Communism's fall saw the appearance of several small states in Europe.
Meanwhile, in about 2005, I was in South Africa with a small group advising former President Thabo Mbeki and his government about its IT policy.
This is too small a pool of money from which to achieve deficit reduction on the scale that the US will need in the years ahead.
From here, then, all that is required to become a nuclear power are a few small technical steps and political leaders' decision to take them.
There is now widespread agreement on the need for increased donor financing for small farmers (those with two hectares or less of land, or impoverished pastoralists), which is especially urgent in Africa.
The 2008 planting seasons came and went with much too little additional help for impoverished small farmers.
African countries search endlessly, and mostly fruitlessly, for the small amounts of funding needed for their purchases of fertilizer and improved seeds.
These pooled funds would enable farmers in poor countries to obtain the fertilizer, improved seed varieties, and small-scale irrigation equipment that they urgently need.
Europe's citizens understand that the relatively small nation-states that make up the EU are no longer able to face these enormous challenges on their own.
To this day, therefore, the risk remains that the number of nuclear powers will increase, particularly given small and medium powers' hope to enhance their prestige and position in regional conflicts.

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