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Meaning of संकीर्ण in English

  • Of little breadth; not wide or broad; having little distance from side to side; as, a narrow board; a narrow street; a narrow hem.
  • Of little extent; very limited; circumscribed.
  • Having but a little margin; having barely sufficient space, time, or number, etc.; close; near; -- with special reference to some peril or misfortune; as, a narrow shot; a narrow escape; a narrow majority.
  • Limited as to means; straitened; pinching; as, narrow circumstances.
  • Contracted; of limited scope; illiberal; bigoted; as, a narrow mind; narrow views.
  • Parsimonious; niggardly; covetous; selfish.
  • Scrutinizing in detail; close; accurate; exact.
  • 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; as e (eve) and / (f/d), etc., from i (ill) and / (f/t), etc. See Guide to Pronunciation, / 13.
  • A narrow passage; esp., a contracted part of a stream, lake, or sea; a strait connecting two bodies of water; -- usually in the plural; as, The Narrows of New York harbor.
  • To lessen the breadth of; to contract; to draw into a smaller compass; to reduce the width or extent of.
  • To contract the reach or sphere of; to make less liberal or more selfish; to limit; to confine; to restrict; as, to narrow one's views or knowledge; to narrow a question in discussion.
  • To contract the size of, as a stocking, by taking two stitches into one.
  • To become less broad; to contract; to become narrower; as, the sea narrows into a strait.
  • Not to step out enough to the one hand or the other; as, a horse narrows.
  • To contract the size of a stocking or other knit article, by taking two stitches into one.
  • Of or pertaining to a parish; restricted to a parish; as, parochial duties.
  • A mixture of two or more sorts of grain; -- now called maslin and meslin.
  • Mixed; mingled; consisting of several things; of diverse sorts; promiscuous; heterogeneous; as, a miscellaneous collection.
  • A mass or mixture of various things; a medley; esp., a collection of compositions on various subjects.
  • Miscellaneous; heterogeneous.

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