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How to pronounce “narrow”
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Pronunciation guide for narrow
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of narrow with real speech in context.
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- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Steven Novella, Jay Novella & Bob Novella
with a full-blown narrow AI--
- Definition summary
- Having a small width; not wide; having opposite edges or sides that are close, especially by comparison to length or depth.
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How to pronounce narrow
Steven Novella, Jay Novella & Bob Novella
with a full-blown narrow AI--
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “narrow”
Meaning
- [Adjective]
- Having a small width; not wide; having opposite edges or sides that are close, especially by comparison to length or depth.
- Of little extent; very limited; circumscribed.
- (figuratively) Restrictive; without flexibility or latitude.
- Contracted; of limited scope; bigoted
- Having a small margin or degree.
- (dated) Limited as to means; straitened
- Parsimonious; niggardly; covetous; selfish.
- Scrutinizing in detail; close; accurate; exact.
- (phonetics) Formed (as a vowel) by a close position of some part of the tongue in relation to the palate; or (according to Bell) by a tense condition of the pharynx; distinguished from wide.
- (computing) Of or supporting only those text characters that can fit into the traditional 8-bit representation.
- [Noun]
- (chiefly in the plural) A narrow passage, especially a contracted part of a stream, lake, or sea; a strait connecting two bodies of water.
- [Verb]
- (transitive) To reduce in width or extent; to contract.
- (intransitive) To get narrower.
- (of a person or eyes) To partially lower one's eyelids in a way usually taken to suggest a defensive, aggressive or penetrating look.
- (knitting) To contract the size of, as a stocking, by taking two stitches into one.
- (transitive, programming) To convert to a data type that cannot hold as many distinct values.
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