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Definitions: Narrow Down

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Verb

1. Define clearly; "I cannot narrow down the rules for this game".

2. Define clearly; "Can you pin down the difficulties".

3. Become more special; "We specialize in dried flowers".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Narrow Down

Synonyms: nail down (v), narrow (v), peg down (v), pin down (v), specialise (v), specialize (v), specify (v). (additional references)
Antonym: diversify (v). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Narrow Down

English words defined with "narrow down": nail down, narrowpeg down, pin downRelaisspecify, Sprengel pump, Stool of a windowWindow stool. (references)
Specialty definitions using "narrow down": adobe flatdrill-split narrow-vein miningEmory picker, entry driverscroll bar, shothole bridge. (references)

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Non-Fiction Usage: Narrow Down

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

During the next few weeks, as additional cases of the disease were reported in the Four Corners area, physicians and other scientific experts worked intensively to narrow down the list of possible causes. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Narrow Down

Language Translations for "narrow down"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

German

  

sich konzentrieren (be concentrated, concentrate, to concentrate), sich beschränken (confine oneself, limit, restrict, restrict oneself), konzentrieren (center, centre, concentrate, concentration, focus, mass, package, pool, to concentrate), einschränken (confine, cut back, cut down, impinge, limit, moderate, pare down, qualify, reduce, restrain, restrict, retrench, stint, to retrench, to stint), einengen (constrict, curb, frustrate, hedge about, hedge around, hem in, pinch, restrict, to boil down, to concentrate by evaporation, to constrict, to inspissate), beschränken (bound, confine, constrict, limit, restrict, stint, straiten, tether, to bound, to stint). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

範囲'狭める (to narrow down the range). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

は"い'せばめる (to narrow down the range). (various references)

   

Manx

  

keyllaghey (narrow, narrowing). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

arrownay ownday.(various references)

   

Romanian

  

strâmta (diminish, narrow, straiten), restrânge (bound, confine, constrain, cut, diminish, drop, limit, localise, localize, narrow, restrict, restriction, retrench), reduce (abate, abridge, ax, axe, bear down, bring, cancel out, contract, curtail, cut, decrease, derogate, detract, diminish, discount, draw in, drop, extenuate, fine down, knock down, knock off, lessen, lower, make good, pare down, prune, recover, reduce, retrench, slacken, stint, stop, unbend, weaken), gâtui (choke, strangle, throttle), îngusta (narrow, shrink, straiten, taper, tighten). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

уменьшать (abate, decrease, detract, diminish, extenuate, lessen, minify, reduce, relieve, remit, retrench, scale down, shrinks, take off, throttle back). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Narrow Down

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-n-n-o-o-r-r-w-w"

-3 letters: nonword, warworn.

-4 letters: narrow, nonwar, onward.

-5 letters: adorn, adown, ardor, arrow, donna, donor, drawn, drown, radon, rondo, rowan.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Narrow Down


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4E 61 72 72 6F 77      44 6F 77 6E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001110 01100001 01110010 01110010 01101111 01110111 00100000 01000100 01101111 01110111 01101110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#78 &#97 &#114 &#114 &#111 &#119 &#32 &#68 &#111 &#119 &#110

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004E 0061 0072 0072 006F 0077      0044 006F 0077 006E

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

486784848189238818980

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Quotations: Non-fiction
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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