small

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The best way to prevent burnout is to follow up a serious failure with doing small things that you know are going to work.

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Quick take

the slender part of the back

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of small gathered in one view.

noun

the slender part of the back

noun

a garment size for a small person

adjective

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"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for small.

noun

the slender part of the back

noun

a garment size for a small person

adjective

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"

adjective

limited in size or scope; "a small business"; "a newspaper with a modest circulation"; "small-scale plans"; "a pocket-size country"

adjective

(of children and animals) young, immature; "what a big little boy you are"; "small children"

adjective

slight or limited; especially in degree or intensity or scope; "a series of death struggles with small time in between"

adjective

low or inferior in station or quality; "a humble cottage"; "a lowly parish priest"; "a modest man of the people"; "small beginnings"

adjective

lowercase; "little a"; "small a"; "e.e.cummings's poetry is written all in minuscule letters"

adjective

(of a voice) faint; "a little voice"; "a still small voice"

adjective

have fine or very small constituent particles; "a small misty rain"

adjective

not large but sufficient in size or amount; "a modest salary"; "modest inflation"; "helped in my own small way"

adjective

made to seem smaller or less (especially in worth); "her comments made me feel small"

adverb

on a small scale; "think small"

Example sentences

The best way to prevent burnout is to follow up a serious failure with doing small things that you know are going to work.

I, who collaborated with a friend on one small part of the assignment, got worried and came in to see you during office hours.

Of course, the common man knows it's common sense that there's an inherent need for secrecy in conducting small scale covert operations.

Hiding important text off the screen, coloring the important text a light grey, even when the text is visible it is far down the right side in a small font.

Many years ago, before the creation of the Web, a small group of us used to meet at a little wooden church just off the Stanford campus to discuss a little-known idea called nanotechnology.

And, if someone already has vast power over you, it is but a small step to extend that power in a technological age by using technology to spy upon, intimidate, and control people.

I think they fragment human interaction into the smallest possible dopamine-inducing units.

No, not when they're being prototyped or tested or used in small scale settings - but definitely somewhere on the path from "tactical use" to "broad strategic dependence".These are not small issues, nor need they be at all partisan.