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Definitions: Narrow Down |
Narrow DownVerb1. 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 DownSynonyms: nail down (v), narrow (v), peg down (v), pin down (v), specialise (v), specialize (v), specify (v). (additional references) |
| Antonym: diversify (v). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Narrow Down |
| English words defined with "narrow down": nail down, narrow ♦ peg down, pin down ♦ Relais ♦ specify, Sprengel pump, Stool of a window ♦ Window stool. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "narrow down": adobe flat ♦ drill-split narrow-vein mining ♦ Emory picker, entry driver ♦ scroll bar, shothole bridge. (references) |
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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. | ||
| 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. | ||
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. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4E 61 72 72 6F 77      44 6F 77 6E |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001110 01100001 01110010 01110010 01101111 01110111 00100000 01000100 01101111 01110111 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)N a r r o w   D o w n |
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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