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Narrow vs Minify - What's the difference?

narrow | minify |

As verbs the difference between narrow and minify

is that narrow is to reduce in width or extent; to contract while minify is to make smaller.

As an adjective narrow

is having a small width; not wide; slim; slender; having opposite edges or sides that are close, especially by comparison to length or depth.

As a noun narrow

is (chiefly|in the plural) a narrow passage, especially a contracted part of a stream, lake, or sea; a strait connecting two bodies of water.

narrow

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Having a small width; not wide; slim; slender; having opposite edges or sides that are close, especially by comparison to length or depth.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title=(A Cuckoo in the Nest)
    • , chapter=1 citation , passage=She was like a Beardsley Salome , he had said. And indeed she had the narrow eyes and the high cheekbone of that creature, and as nearly the sinuosity as is compatible with human symmetry.}}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
    • , chapter=14 citation , passage=Just under the ceiling there were three lunette windows, heavily barred and blacked out in the normal way by centuries of grime. Their bases were on a level with the pavement outside, a narrow way which was several feet lower than the road behind the house.}}
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author= Catherine Clabby
    • , magazine=(American Scientist), title= Focus on Everything , passage=Not long ago, it was difficult to produce photographs of tiny creatures with every part in focus. That’s because the lenses that are excellent at magnifying tiny subjects produce a narrow depth of field. A photo processing technique called focus stacking has changed that.}}
  • Of little extent; very limited; circumscribed.
  • * Bishop Wilkins
    • The Jews were but a small nation, and confined to a narrow compass in the world.
  • (figuratively) Restrictive; without flexibility or latitude.
  • Contracted; of limited scope; illiberal; bigoted.
    • a narrow''' mind; '''narrow views
  • * Macaulay
    • a narrow understanding
  • Having a small margin or degree.
    • The Republicans won by a narrow majority.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2011, date=September 18, author=Ben Dirs
    • , title=Rugby World Cup 2011: England 41-10 Georgia, work=BBC Sport citation , passage=As in their narrow defeat of Argentina last week, England were indisciplined at the breakdown, and if Georgian fly-half Merab Kvirikashvili had remembered his kicking boots, Johnson's side might have been behind at half-time.}}
  • (dated) Limited as to means; straitened; pinching.
    • narrow circumstances
  • Parsimonious; niggardly; covetous; selfish.
  • * Smalridge
    • a very narrow and stinted charity
  • Scrutinizing in detail; close; accurate; exact.
  • * Milton
    • But first with narrow search I must walk round / This garden, and no corner leave unspied.
  • (phonetics) 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.

    • Antonyms

    * wide * broad

    Derived terms

    * narrowboat, narrow boat * narrow-minded * narrowness

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To reduce in width or extent; to contract.
    • We need to narrow the search.
  • To get narrower.
    • The road narrows .
  • (knitting) To contract the size of, as a stocking, by taking two stitches into one.
    • Synonyms
    * taper

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (chiefly, in the plural) A narrow passage, especially a contracted part of a stream, lake, or sea; a strait connecting two bodies of water.
    • the Narrows of New York harbor
  • * Gladstone
    • Near the island lay on one side the jaws of a dangerous narrow .
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    minify

    English

    Verb

  • To make smaller.
  • * 1887 , Philip Schaff, Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 4: Augustine: The Writings Against the Manichaeans and Against the Donatists, "Bibliography: Modern Works"
    • Schneckenburger strives to make it appear that Baur unduly minifies the Christian element in Manichæism.
  • * 1942 , Lloyd C. Douglas, Green Light , Pocket Books Inc., page 170:
    • There must be something in the appeal of the Gothic that minifies one group of values leaving other considerations untouched, or actually magnifying them.
  • To reduce in apparent size, as for example objects viewed through a lens or mirror shaped so as to increase the field of view, such as a convex or aspheric mirror or a Fresnel lens
  • * 1935 , Lloyd C. Douglas, Green Light , Houghton Mifflin, Chapter 10:
    • But, mused Parker, this theory of one's perplexities being diminished by the vastly superior height of these Gothic arches cannot have any foundation in fact, for the same inverted telescope that minifies' my burdens also ' minifies my capacity to carry them, leaving me exactly of the same stature as before.
  • (computing) To remove white space and unnecessary characters from a web page's source code in order to reduce its size and improve download time.
  • * 2008 , Steve Souders, High Performance Web Sites: Essential Knowledge for Front-End Engineers, O'Reilly, page 69:
    • When code is minified , all comments are removed, as well as unneeded whitespace characters (space, newline, and tab).

    Related terms

    * minification (noun form) ** 2010 , Stoyan Stefanov, JavaScript Patterns, O'Reilly, page 36: **: Minification is the process of eliminating white space, comments, and other non-essential parts of the JavaScript code to decrease the size of the JavaScript files that need to be transferred from the server to the browser.

    Antonyms

    * magnify