From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
small
adv 1: on a small scale; "think small" [ant: big]
adj 1: limited or below average in number or quantity or
magnitude or extent; "a little dining room"; "a little
house"; "a small car"; "a little (or small) group" [syn:
small, little] [ant: big, large]
2: limited in size or scope; "a small business"; "a newspaper
with a modest circulation"; "small-scale plans"; "a pocket-
size country" [syn: minor, modest, small, {small-
scale}, pocket-size, pocket-sized]
3: (of children and animals) young, immature; "what a big little
boy you are"; "small children" [syn: little, small]
4: slight or limited; especially in degree or intensity or
scope; "a series of death struggles with small time in
between"
5: low or inferior in station or quality; "a humble cottage"; "a
lowly parish priest"; "a modest man of the people"; "small
beginnings" [syn: humble, low, lowly, modest,
small]
6: lowercase; "little a"; "small a"; "e.e.cummings's poetry is
written all in minuscule letters" [syn: little,
minuscule, small]
7: (of a voice) faint; "a little voice"; "a still small voice"
[syn: little, small]
8: have fine or very small constituent particles; "a small misty
rain"
9: not large but sufficient in size or amount; "a modest
salary"; "modest inflation"; "helped in my own small way"
[syn: modest, small]
10: made to seem smaller or less (especially in worth); "her
comments made me feel small" [syn: belittled,
diminished, small]
n 1: the slender part of the back
2: a garment size for a small person
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Small \Small\, adv.
1. In or to small extent, quantity, or degree; little;
slightly. [Obs.] "I wept but small." --Chaucer. "It small
avails my mood." --Shak.
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2. Not loudly; faintly; timidly. [Obs. or Humorous]
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You may speak as small as you will. --Shak.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Small \Small\, n.
1. The small or slender part of a thing; as, the small of the
leg or of the back.
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2. pl. Smallclothes. [Colloq.] --Hood. Dickens.
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3. pl. Same as Little go. See under Little, a.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Small \Small\ (sm[add]l), a. [Compar. Smaller
(sm[add]l"[~e]r); superl. Smallest.] [OE. small, AS. smael;
akin to D. smal narrow, OS. & OHG. smal small, G. schmal
narrow, Dan. & Sw. smal, Goth. smals small, Icel. smali small
cattle, sheep, or goats; cf. Gr. mh^lon a sheep or goat.]
1. Having little size, compared with other things of the same
kind; little in quantity or degree; diminutive; not large
or extended in dimension; not great; not much;
inconsiderable; as, a small man; a small river.
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To compare
Great things with small. --Milton.
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2. Being of slight consequence; feeble in influence or
importance; unimportant; trivial; insignificant; as, a
small fault; a small business.
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3. Envincing little worth or ability; not large-minded; --
sometimes, in reproach, paltry; mean.
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A true delineation of the smallest man is capable of
interesting the greatest man. --Carlyle.
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4. Not prolonged in duration; not extended in time; short;
as, after a small space. --Shak.
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5. Weak; slender; fine; gentle; soft; not loud. "A still,
small voice." --1 Kings xix. 12.
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Great and small,of all ranks or degrees; -- used especially
of persons. "His quests, great and small." --Chaucer.
Small arms, muskets, rifles, pistols, etc., in distinction
from cannon.
Small beer. See under Beer.
Small coal.
(a) Little coals of wood formerly used to light fires.
--Gay.
(b) Coal about the size of a hazelnut, separated from the
coarser parts by screening.
Small craft (Naut.), a vessel, or vessels in general, of a
small size.
Small fruits. See under Fruit.
Small hand, a certain size of paper. See under Paper.
Small hours. See under Hour.
Small letter. (Print.), a lower-case letter. See
Lower-case, and Capital letter, under Capital, a.
Small piece, a Scotch coin worth about 21/4d. sterling, or
about 41/2cents.
Small register. See the Note under 1st Register, 7.
Small stuff (Naut.), spun yarn, marline, and the smallest
kinds of rope. --R. H. Dana, Jr.
Small talk, light or trifling conversation; chitchat.
Small wares (Com.), various small textile articles, as
tapes, braid, tringe, and the like. --M`Culloch.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Small \Small\, v. t.
To make little or less. [Obs.]
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From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008) [foldoc]:
SMALL
1. Functional, lazy, untyped.
["SMALL - A Small Interactive Functional System",
L. Augustsson, TR 28, U Goteborg and Chalmers U, 1986].
2. A toy language used to illustrate {denotational
semantics}.
["The Denotational Description of Programming Languages",
M.J.C. Gordon, Springer 1979].