narrows

n. restricted area of a waterway between 2 headlands

v. make narrow, limit, restrict; contract, lessen in width, taper

n. narrow place (valley, mountain pass, etc.); narrow passage

Narrows is a term for restricted land or water passages. Most commonly it refers to a strait, though it can also refer to a water gap.Used without qualification, it generally refers to The Narrows, which separates Staten Island from Brooklyn and connects the upper and lower sections of New York Bay.See The Narrows (disambiguation) for other places of the same name.
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Noun
1. a narrow strait connecting two bodies of water
(hypernym) strait, sound
(hyponym) Verrazano Narrows
(derivation) contract
Verb
1. make or become more narrow or restricted; "The selection was narrowed"; "The road narrowed"
(synonym) contract
(antonym) widen
(hypernym) change
(hyponym) bottleneck
(see-also) pin down, narrow down
2. define clearly; "I cannot narrow down the rules for this game"
(synonym) pin down, peg down, nail down, narrow down, specify
(hypernym) determine
(hyponym) concretize
3. become more special; "We specialize in dried flowers"
(synonym) specialize, specialise, narrow down
(hypernym) change, alter, vary
(hyponym) overspecialize, overspecialise
4. become tight or as if tight; "Her throat constricted"
(synonym) constrict, constringe
(hypernym) tighten
(hyponym) astringe
(derivation) narrowing
Adjective
1. not wide; "a narrow bridge"; "a narrow line across the page"
(antonym) wide, broad
(similar) constricting, constrictive, narrowing
(see-also) limited
(attribute) width, breadth
2. limited in size or scope; "the narrow sense of a word"
(similar) limited
3. lacking tolerance or flexibility or breadth of view; "a brilliant but narrow-minded judge"; "narrow opinions"
(synonym) narrow-minded
(similar) close-minded, closed-minded
4. very limited in degree; "won by a narrow margin"; "a narrow escape"
(antonym) wide
(similar) bare(a), marginal
5. characterized by painstaking care and detailed examination; "a minute inspection of the grounds"; "a narrow scrutiny"; "an exact and minute report"
(synonym) minute
(similar) careful

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Synonyms and related words:
arm, armlet, bay, bayou, belt, bight, boca, bottleneck, canal, channel, cove, creek, defile, estuary, euripus, fjord, frith, gulf, gut, harbor, inlet, isthmus, kyle, loch, mouth, narrow, narrow seas, natural harbor, neck, pass, reach, road, roads, roadstead, sound, strait, straits, throat