Narrows

Definition

narrow /'nærǝƱ/ adj ( -er,-est) ၁။ က်ဥ္းေသာ။ a narrow bed/ bridge/ channel/path ❍ The lane was too narrow for cars to overtake. Compare BROAD 1 ၁, THIN ၁,WIDE ၁ (က) ၂။ သီသီကေလး။ ပြတ္ကာသီကာ။ ႏွာတစ္ဖ်ား။ have a narrow escape from death ❍ be elected by a narrow majority (eg when voting is 67to 64) ❍ have a narrow lead over (ie be not far ahead of) the rest. ၃။ (အျမင္) က်ဥ္းေျမာင္းေသာ။ a narrow mind ❍ She takes a rather narrow view of the subject. ၄။ (အေရအတြက္၊ အမ်ဳိးအစား) နည္းပါးေသာ။ က်ဥ္းေျမာင္းေသာ။ a narrow circle of friends ❍ within the narrow confines of political life. ၅။ အတိအက်။ What does the word mean in its narrowest sense? v က်ဥ္းေျမာင္းသည္။ က်ဥ္းေျမာင္းေစသည္။ The road narrows here. ❍ The gap between the two parties has narrowed considerably. ❍ Her eyes narrowed (ie She partly closed them) menacingly. ❍ He narrowed his eyes and frowned.  narrow sth down [ PHRV ] ေလွ်ာ့ပစ္သည္။ က်ဥ္းပစ္ သည္။ We' ve narrowed down the list to three possible candidates.  narrowly adv ၁။ သီသီကေလး။ be narrowly defeated ❍ He narrowly avoided a collision/ escaped death. ၂။ ေစ့ေစ့စပ္စပ္။ observe someone narrowly. narrowness n [U]: the narrowness of the road ❍ narrowness of mind.  narrow-minded /'maÇndÇd / adj သေဘာထား က်ဥ္း ေျမာင္းေသာ။ a narrow minded bigot. narrow- mindedness n [U]  narrows n [pl] ေရလက္ၾကား။

Examples

1. A narrow strip of land/water
2. Narrow
3. winding streets
4. We are left with a relatively narrow range of options.
5. The book takes a rather narrow view of what we mean by civilization.
6. The court’s narrow definition of a criminal act
7. A narrow victory/escape/defeat
8. Our resolution passed with the narrowest possible majority.