English-Spanish translations for narrow

• estrecho
  Nos encontramos en un camino muy estrecho en estas negociaciones. We are on a very narrow path in this discussion.
  En cambio, en la nieve rueda mejor un neumático muy estrecho. On the other hand, a narrow tyre works well on snow.
  Permítanme ser sincero, el margen de maniobra para las negociaciones es estrecho. Let me be candid: the room for negotiation is narrow.
• angostar
• angosto
  El marco actual de los Tratados es demasiado angosto para una Europa en vías de ampliación. The present framework of the Treaties is too narrow for an enlarging Europe.
  Hay unos pasos angostos que están muy expuestos a las emisiones medioambientales. There are narrow passes which are under considerable pressure from environmentally damaging emissions.
  Ayer, en el G-20, y en la conferencia sobre el cambio climático, mañana, la Unión Europea debe seguir un angosto camino entre dos amenazas igualmente importantes. At the G20 yesterday, and at the climate-change conference tomorrow, the European Union must tread a narrow path between two equally formidable threats.
• estrechar
  Al mismo tiempo, estrechará su alcance. At the same time it will also make them narrower in scope.
  El deseo de estrechar el foco en el marco de una situación compleja que se nos está escapando de las manos es, creo yo, un error de método. The desire to narrow the focus within the framework of a complex situation that is slipping from our graspis, I believe, an error of method.
  Al mismo tiempo, todas las resoluciones de la UE han declarado que nuestras políticas deberían trabajar con el objetivo de estrechar la brecha a la que se enfrentan las regiones más atrasadas. At the same time, all of the EU resolutions have stated that our policies should be working to narrow the gap that the more backward regions are facing.
• estrecharse

Definition of narrow

• Having a small width; not wide; having opposite edges or sides that are close, especially by comparison to length or depth
• Of little extent; very limited; circumscribed
• Restrictive; without flexibility or latitude
• Contracted; of limited scope; bigoted
• Having a small margin or degree
• Limited as to means; straitened
• Parsimonious; niggardly; covetous; selfish
• Scrutinizing in detail; close; accurate; exact
• Formed by a close position of some part of the tongue in relation to the palate; or by a tense condition of the pharynx; distinguished from wide
• A narrow passage, especially a contracted part of a stream, lake, or sea; a strait connecting two bodies of water
• To reduce in width or extent; to contract
• To get narrower
• To partially lower one's eyelids in a way usually taken to suggest a defensive, aggressive or penetrating look
• To contract the size of, as a stocking, by taking two stitches into one

Examples

• a narrow hallway
• a narrow interpretation
• a narrow mind
• narrow views
• a narrow escape
• The Republicans won by a narrow majority
• narrow circumstances
• the Narrows of New York harbor
• We need to narrow the search.
• The road narrows.
• He stepped in front of me, narrowing his eyes to slits.
• She wagged her finger in his face, and her eyes narrowed.
• to narrow an int variable to a short variable

Related words

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• narrow-minded
• narrow-mindedness
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• narrows
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• narrow-mindedly
• narrowness