small
What is the Definition of small?
Noun:
Adjective:
- limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent
- or small
- relatively moderate, limited, or small
- (of children and animals)
- slight or limited; especially in degree or intensity or scope
- low or inferior in station or quality
- lowercase
- (of a voice)
- have fine or very small constituent particles
- not large but sufficient in size or amount
- made to seem smaller or less (especially in worth)
Adverb:
- on a small scale
How can I use small in a sentence?
The brick he had touched quivered — it wriggled — in the middle, a small hole appeared — it grew wider and wider — a second later they were facing an archway large enough even for Hagrid, an archway onto a cobbled street that twisted and turned out of sight.
One small hand closed on the letter beside him and he slept on, not knowing he was special, not knowing he was famous, not knowing he would be woken in a few hours' time by Mrs. Dursley's scream as she opened the front door to put out the milk bottles, nor that he would spend the next few weeks being prodded and pinched by his cousin Dudley.
On Harry's other side, Percy Weasley and Hermione were talking about lessons (I do hope they start right away, there is so much to learn, I am particularly interested in Transfiguration, you know, turning something into something else, of course, it is supposed to be very difficult —; You will be starting small, just matches into needles and that sort of thing — ).
Harry could hear the drone of hundreds of voices from a doorway to the right — the rest of the school must already be here — but Professor McGonagall showed the first years into a small, empty chamber off the hall.
Doris Crockford shook Harry's hand one last time, and Hagrid led them through the bar and out into a small, walled courtyard, where there was nothing but a trash can and a few weeds.
Other meanings of small (synonyms, cognates).
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