Polish English Dictionary

język polski - English

small in English:

1. tiny


Since he can read such tiny print, he is far from being near-sighted.
tiny spider
She appeared on the cover of magazines holding a tiny ampule of blood.
Each pancake comes with a dollop of suspiciously soft butter in a tiny plastic cup.
Parker Brothers ran out of thimbles and tiny cannons, amounting to a multimillion-dollar loss.
Fiber-optic cables are made up of tiny glass fibers which are as thin as human hairs.
Yesterday, I found a tiny piece of land for sale in a quiet residential area and I immediately decided to buy it.
Everybody always knows when the politicians do something wrong and how they should do it better, but only a tiny fraction of the population is ready to commit themselves to politics.
Unless you have really tiny veins, you shouldn't have any trouble.
It was a little dog, wasn't it?" "Little? It was tiny!
That tiny meal wasn’t enough for me. I’m still hungry.
In that moment I knew I never wanted to see a dead body, not even of a tiny animal.
Her tiny attic room had poor ventilation and in summer it became unbearably stuffy.
The latter one is particularly interesting as it allows to create an extremely tiny tests
She was a tiny girl, but she really held her own on the baritone sax. Nonetheless, I couldn't help but imagine the thing wrapping itself around her and devouring her like a boa constrictor.

English word "small"(tiny) occurs in sets:

Angielski I semestr

2. meagre


meagre supplies of food
Her earnings, though meagre, satisfy her needs.
they’d been robbed of all their meagre possessions

3. smaller the smallest



4. small


It's too small.
The village which I visited last summer was a small one in Nagano Prefecture.
It's only a small house but it meets my needs perfectly.
My what a narrow waist! Her face is small, she really looks just like a doll!
Small cars are very economical because of their low fuel consumption.
His company was singled out as the most successful small business in the region.
The small fork is for your salad, and the large one is for the main course.
I didn't realize till I visited Australia how small Japan really is.
Her hands are small, but not so small that she can't play the piano.
A small border dispute ballooned into a major international incident.
I like his new house, but I had not expected it to be so small.
Small businesses will have to tighten their belts to survive.
It's a small noisy apartment, but it's where I live and I call it home.
I doubt that Tom would ever consider driving such a small car.
Small children tend to wander off if you don't watch them all the time.

5. cramped


The tent was really cramped - we were squashed like sardines.
This room is cramped.
I want to move out of this cramped room as soon as I can.
My leg cramped up as I ran down the stairs to catch a train, and I had to sit down right there in the middle of the stairway.
A little cramped, but we'll make do.
There are a lot of tables for the size of the restaurant; so we felt a bit cramped.
Student flats can be quite cramped if there are a few students living together in one room.
There are a dozen of them living in a two-bedroom flat, so you can imagine how cramped the place is.
The troops slept in cramped conditions with up to 20 in a single room.
it was cramped on the train
It is a bit cramped in here, why don’t you move to a bigger flat?
a cramped ​room/​house / We have six ​desks in this ​room, so we're a little cramped (for ​space).
We had to move to a bigger house when the baby was born, as our flat was too cramped.
He lived for six months in a cold, cramped attic room.
Don`t put that big table into your kitchen, there will be too cramped.

6. minor


We should spend our time creating content for our website rather than wasting time worrying about minor cosmetic details.
It may seem like a minor thing to you, but for a lot of people this is really difficult to do.
Our city's transport problems are minor when measured against capitals like London and New York.
minor changes
It is important that a lawyer should leave no stone unturned even on minor points and harp on the same subject to achieve a break through in an impasse.
It's still minor league but in the not so distant future they'll be coming to a place near you.
Kouji was lucky; his traffic accident left only a minor scratch on the side of his car.
It's a pretty minor surgery so the doctor will probably only give you a local anaesthetic.
To do him justice, we must say that he is a minor musician.
If you ask a mathematician if he is an adult or a minor, don't be surprised if he answers "yes".
We have been discussing minor matters; it's high time we began talking turkey.
If a women walks on a public street exposing her lower body, it's public indecency. If she walks while exposing her upper body, then it's a violation of article 20(1) of the minor offenses act.
minor injuries; to undergo minor surgery; youths imprisoned for minor offences
Community service is the best punishment for young people who commit a minor offence.
small and not very important or serious, especially when compared with other things [≠ major]: We have made some minor changes to the program.

7. scant


We paid scant attention to him
with scant regard of my feelings
scant few will do all of them all the time.
scant information
As for startups, a scant few fit these criteria.
Scant difference.

8. talk


Don't talk!
Cats are like girls. If they talk to you it's great, but if you try to talk to them, it doesn't go so well.
Those who know do not talk. Those who talk do not know.
Many things are easy to talk about, but difficult to actually carry out.
He needs a few jokes to lighten up his talk.
He expected that their talk was going to be long.
Talk like that will raise suspicion.
Talk about the weather, the food at the party or your favorite drink.
He's shy, and never speaks unless spoken to. You have to talk to him.
The talk between labor and management yielded no definite results.
Tom and Mary always talk about the same old things. It gets kind of boring.
You can talk until you're blue in the face, but you'll never convince me.
If you heard him talk, you would suppose he was the master of the house.
She doesn't talk much, but once she does speak she is eloquent.
Can you take notes for me during the professor's talk?

English word "small"(talk) occurs in sets:

8 klasa (unit1)

9. smaller smallest



10. slim


There's little chance of keeping slim, unless you stick to a diet.
If you want to be slim, follow this diet.
Chances of promotion are slim in this firm.
She went on a diet to get slim for her wedding.
She's slim.
Therefore I'm giving up for now. I'll still try to check out other possibilities but ... I think hopes are slim.
He is one of those slim people who can eat anything they want.
The odds are slim to none that the true conspirators will be found.
A man called Slim was killed in the accident.
There's only a slim chance that anyone survived the crash.
I'm out of slims. I've gotta get some.
I simply love slim girls!
Those who wish to be slim do not necessarily have to starve.
If I ate less, I would have been slimmer.
Although she isn't very slim she looks attractive

English word "small"(slim) occurs in sets:

TŁUMACZENIA EXAM

11. micro