small

adj.

VERBS

▪ be, feel, look, seem

▪ become, get, grow

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The gap seemed to be getting smaller.

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The kite grew smaller and smaller and finally disappeared altogether.

▪ remain, stay

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Choose plants that will stay small.

▪ keep sth, make sth

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Technology has made the world smaller.

ADVERB

▪ extremely, fairly, very, etc.

▪ a little, slightly, etc.

▪ relatively

PREPOSITION

▪ for

▪

My coat was rather small for Bob.

PHRASES

▪ big and small, large and small

▪

Employers, large and small, face massive fines.

▪ smaller and smaller

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The phones are getting smaller and smaller.

Small is used with these nouns: ↑accident, ↑acquisition, ↑ad, ↑adjustment, ↑airport, ↑allowance, ↑alteration, ↑amendment, ↑amount, ↑apartment, ↑appetite, ↑area, ↑arms, ↑army, ↑attic, ↑audience, ↑baby, ↑bag, ↑band, ↑bank, ↑batch, ↑beak, ↑bedroom, ↑bet, ↑birthmark, ↑bit, ↑block, ↑boat, ↑bomb, ↑bouquet, ↑bow, ↑bowel, ↑boy, ↑brandy, ↑breast, ↑brother, ↑budget, ↑build, ↑building, ↑bump, ↑bunch, ↑bundle, ↑business, ↑businessman, businesswoman, ↑campus, ↑capacity, ↑cast, ↑catch, ↑cave, ↑celebration, ↑chain, ↑change, ↑chapel, ↑charge, ↑child, ↑chore, ↑chunk, ↑circle, ↑circulation, ↑city, ↑claim, ↑class, ↑click, ↑clientele, ↑closet, ↑clump, ↑cluster, ↑coke, ↑collection, ↑colony, ↑comfort, ↑commission, ↑community, ↑company, ↑compensation, ↑complaint, ↑concession, ↑confines, ↑congregation, ↑consolation, ↑contingent, ↑contribution, ↑corner, ↑correction, ↑cottage, ↑crack, ↑craft, ↑crater, ↑creature, ↑creek, ↑crowd, ↑crush, ↑cry, ↑crystal, ↑cubicle, ↑cupboard, ↑cut, ↑daughter, ↑decrease, ↑defect, ↑deficit, ↑degree, ↑delegation, ↑delivery, ↑dent, ↑depression, ↑desk, ↑detail, ↑detour, ↑diameter, ↑difference, ↑dimension, ↑dining room, ↑disappointment, ↑discrepancy, ↑distance, ↑distributor, ↑ditch, ↑donation, ↑dose, ↑dowry, ↑drop, ↑earthquake, ↑electric shock, ↑employer, ↑engine, ↑enterprise, ↑entrepreneur, ↑envelope, ↑errand, ↑error, ↑estate, ↑exclamation, ↑exhibit, ↑exhibition, ↑expedition, ↑explosion, ↑factory, ↑fall, ↑family, ↑farm, ↑farmer, ↑favour, ↑feat, ↑fee, ↑figure, ↑fine, ↑fireplace, ↑firm, ↑fist, ↑flame, ↑flap, ↑flashlight, ↑flat, ↑flaw, ↑fleet, ↑flicker, ↑flower, ↑fluctuation, ↑following, ↑foot, ↑force, ↑format, ↑fortune, ↑fraction, ↑frame, ↑frown, ↑fry, ↑gadget, ↑gain, ↑gap, ↑garden, ↑gash, ↑gasp, ↑gathering, ↑gesture, ↑gift, ↑giggle, ↑gin, ↑girl, ↑government, ↑grain, ↑grant, ↑graze, ↑grimace, ↑grin, ↑groan, ↑group, ↑growl, ↑grunt, ↑gust, ↑handful, ↑heap, ↑helping, ↑herd, ↑hiccup, ↑hill, ↑hint, ↑hip, ↑hoard, ↑hole, ↑hotel, ↑hour, ↑house, ↑huddle, ↑hut, ↑improvement, ↑incident, ↑incision, ↑income, ↑increase, ↑indulgence, ↑inheritance, ↑instrument, ↑intestine, ↑investment, ↑investor, ↑job, ↑jump, ↑kindness, ↑kitchen, ↑knife, ↑lake, ↑lane, ↑laugh, ↑lead, ↑leak, ↑leap, ↑ledge, ↑letter, ↑library, ↑loaf, ↑loan, ↑loss, ↑lot, ↑lump, ↑luxury, ↑magnitude, ↑majority, ↑mammal, ↑manufacturer, ↑margin, ↑market, ↑minority, ↑miracle, ↑moan, ↑moon, ↑mortgage, ↑motel, ↑motor, ↑mound, ↑mountain, ↑moustache, ↑mouth, ↑movement, ↑mystery, ↑nail, ↑nation, ↑niche, ↑nod, ↑noise, ↑nose, ↑number, ↑object, ↑office, ↑opening, ↑operation, ↑operator, ↑orchestra, ↑order, ↑organization, ↑outfit, ↑outlay, ↑package, ↑painting, ↑pan, ↑pang, ↑parcel, ↑part, ↑passage, ↑pause, ↑penis, ↑pension, ↑percentage, ↑piece, ↑pile, ↑pizza, ↑plane, ↑pleasure, ↑plot, ↑pocket, ↑pond, ↑pool, ↑population, ↑portion, ↑premium, ↑print, ↑procession, ↑producer, ↑profit, ↑project, ↑proportion, ↑publisher, ↑puff, ↑quantity, ↑rebellion, ↑reception, ↑recess, ↑reduction, ↑refrigerator, ↑region, ↑remnant, ↑repertoire, ↑replica, ↑reserve, ↑restaurant, ↑retailer, ↑return, ↑ripple, ↑rise, ↑risk, ↑river, ↑road, ↑rock, ↑role, ↑room, ↑salary, ↑sample, ↑saucepan, ↑saver, ↑scale, ↑scar, ↑scissors, ↑scrap, ↑scratch, ↑screen, ↑section, ↑selection, ↑settlement, ↑shack, ↑shake, ↑share, ↑shareholder, ↑sherry, ↑shiver, ↑shopkeeper, ↑shopping centre, ↑shrub, ↑shrug, ↑shudder, ↑sigh, ↑sip, ↑size, ↑skillet, ↑skirmish, ↑slice, ↑smirk, ↑snack, ↑snag, ↑sniff, ↑snippet, ↑snort, ↑sob, ↑son, ↑space, ↑specimen, ↑splash, ↑squeak, ↑stake, ↑statue, ↑stature, ↑step, ↑stool, ↑store, ↑stream, ↑stretch, ↑subsidy, ↑sum, ↑supplier, ↑supply, ↑surcharge, ↑surplus, ↑swing, ↑table, ↑task, ↑taste, ↑theatre, ↑thing, ↑tip, ↑token, ↑touch, ↑town, ↑trace, ↑trader, ↑tree, ↑tremor, ↑trickle, ↑triumph, ↑tug, ↑unit, ↑user, ↑valley, ↑variation, ↑victory, ↑village, ↑vocabulary, ↑voice, ↑volume, ↑wage, ↑waist, ↑waterfall, ↑wave, ↑weakness, ↑wedding, ↑whimper, ↑whisky, ↑window, ↑workforce, ↑world, ↑wrist, ↑writing, ↑yard, ↑yelp