small

adj

1. Not large or big; insignificant; few in number.

   “A small serving of ice cream.”

   “A small group.”

   “Here, in the transept and choir, where the service was being held, one was conscious every moment of an increasing brightness; colours glowing vividly beneath the circular chandeliers, and the rows of small lights on the choristers' desks flashed and sparkled in front of the boys' faces, deep linen collars, and red neckbands.”

   “Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. Piling debt onto companies’ balance-sheets is only a small part of what leveraged buy-outs are about, they insist. Improving the workings of the businesses they take over is just as core to their calling, if not more so. Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster.”

   “The orbiter has been observing the moon since 2009, and its reflector is a smaller version of reflector panels placed on the lunar surface during the Apollo 11, 14 and 15 landings on the moon. Soviet lunar robotic landers sent in 1970 and 1973 also carried smaller reflectors.”

2. Not large or big; insignificant; few in number.

   “The bullies had succeeded in making him feel small.”

   “For all the times that you made me feel small / I fell in love, now I feel nothing at all”

3. Not large or big; insignificant; few in number.

   “(of genitals)”

   “Though over six feet tall, the man was very small and ashamed to undress.”

4. (figuratively, not-comparable)Young, as a child.

   “Remember when the children were small?”

5. (not-comparable)Minuscule or lowercase, referring to written or printed letters.

   “"I've got catholic tastes. Catholic with a small "c", of course."”

6. Evincing little worth or ability; not large-minded; paltry; mean.

   “A true delineation of the smallest man is capable of interesting the greatest man.”

7. Not prolonged in duration; not extended in time; short.

   “a small space of time”

8. Synonym of little (“of an industry or institution(s) therein: operating on a small scale, unlike larger counterparts”).

   “small science”

9. (archaic)Slender, gracefully slim.
10. (especially)That is small (the manufactured size).

    “I'll have a small coffee, thanks.”

adv

1. In a small fashion

   “Don't write very small!”

2. In or into small pieces.

   “That's going to go in there. We've got some chives small chopped as well.”

3. (obsolete)To a small extent.

   “It small avails my mood.”

4. (obsolete)In a low tone; softly.

   “That's all one: you shall play it in a mask, and / you may speak as small as you will.”

noun

1. (especially, noun-from-verb, uncountable)One of several common sizes to which an item may be manufactured, smaller than a medium.
2. (countable, especially, noun-from-verb)An item labelled or denoted as being that size.

   “Two smalls and a large, please.”

3. (countable, especially, noun-from-verb)One who fits an item of that size.
4. (countable, noun-from-verb, rare)Any part of something that is smaller or slimmer than the rest, now usually with anatomical reference to the back.

   “I got a splitting pain in the small of my back”

verb

1. (noun-from-verb, obsolete, transitive)To make little or less.
2. (intransitive, noun-from-verb)To become small; to dwindle.

   “And smalled till she was nought at all.”

name

1. A surname.

   ““People have biases towards species that are glamorous,” said Dr. Ernie Small, author of the study and taxonomist for Agriculture Canada.”