Stamp

Francis of Paola crosses the Strait of Messina

In January 27th 2007, was issued the commemorative stamp of the fifth centenary of San Francesco da Paola death.

The drawing reproduces the paint "San Francesco da Paola attraversa lo stretto di Messina" (Francis of Paola crosses the Strait of Messina), realized by Benedetto Luti and conserved in the Regional Museum of Messina.

Go to: http://xoomer.virgilio.it/artefrancobolli/luti.htm

Conceptual map

People - Gandhi

Gandhi, a man with wide thoughts.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was the pre-eminent political and ideological leader of India during the Indian independence movement. He pioneered satyagraha. This is defined as resistance to tyranny through mass civil disobedience, a philosophy firmly founded upon ahimsa, or total nonviolence. This concept helped India to gain independence, and inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world.

People - Long queue

When the people make a long queue, the queue becames more wide with some columns.

Data - Data communication service

Nowadays We often use wifi technology for internet. The purpose is exchanging the data without physical  line. And the baud rateid is different from wide band or narrow band.

History - English Channel ( La Manica) and The Battle of Britain

 The English Channel is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that separates Great Britain from northern France, and joins the North Sea to the Atlantic. It is about 560 km long and varies in width from 240 km  at its widest, to only 34 km (21 mi) in the Strait of Dover^. It is the smallest of the shallow seas around the continental shelf of Europe.

On the sky of the English Cannel, took place "The Battle of Britain" the air campaign waged by the German Air Force against the United Kingdom during the summer and autumn of 1940. The objective of the campaign was to gain air superiority over the Royal Air Force (RAF), especially Fighter Command. The Battle of Britain marked the first defeat of Hitler's military forces, with air superiority seen as the key to victory.The British triumph in the Battle of Britain was won at a heavy cost. The end of the battle allowed Britain to rebuild its military forces and establish itself as an Allied stronghold.

 

Go to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Britain#Aftermath

Geography - Strait of Magellan

The Strait of Magellan comprises a navigable sea route immediately south of mainland South America and north of Tierra del Fuego. The waterway is the most important natural passage between the Pacific and the Atlantic oceans, but it is considered a difficult route to navigate because of the unpredictable winds and currents and the narrowness of the passage.

Go to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strait_of_Magellan

Geography - Strait of Gibraltar

The Strait of Gibraltar  is a narrow strait that connects the Atlantic Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea and separates Spain in Europe from Morocco in Africa. The name comes from Gibraltar, which in turn originates from the Arabic Jebel Tariq (meaning "Tariq's mountain").

Go to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strait_of_Gibraltar#History

History - Colonization of the Moon

Advocates of space exploration have seen settlement of the Moon as a logical step in the expansion of humanity beyond the Earth.

Manned exploration of the Lunar surface began in 1968 when the Apollo 8spacecraft orbited the Moon with three astronauts on board. This was mankind's first direct view of the far side. The following year, the Apollo 11 Lunar moduleresearch work and bring back sample materials. landed two astronauts on the Moon, proving the ability of humans to travel to the Moon, perform scientific

Additional missions to the Moon continued this exploration phase. In 1969 the Apollo 12 mission landed next to the Surveyor 3 spacecraft, demonstrating precision landing capability.

Go to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonization_of_the_Moon 

Industry vs artisan culture - The concept of narrow in Industrial Culture

Entrance and metal detector

Nowadays we are often obliged to pass among wery narrow passages. These kind of passages are mostly used to controll people. Metal detectors are used for various purposes such as security maintenance. While the entrances of subway are used to arrange people and controll they have tickets.

Industry vs artisan culture - The concept of wide in Industrial Culture

Broadband Internet access (Banda Larga)

 

Broadband Internet access, often shortened to just "broadband", is a high data rate connection to the internet.

Broadband is often called "high-speed" access to the Internet, because it usually has a high rate of data transmission. Today the concept of wide could be extend to the condivision of data in the whole world in real time. 

Go to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadband_Internet_access 

Industry vs artisan culture - The concept of narrow in Artigian Culture

In the early Middle Ages windows were simply openings in the wall, that admitted wind, and even glazed windows were poorly insulated. Thus builders often made windows rather narrow to minimize drafts and loss of eath.

Paul B. Newman, Daily life in the Middle Ages, McFarland & Company, 2001

Windows in a castle in the middle ages were rare. On the second floor, where the royal family stayed, there might be a few windows to not spread eath. The only other window like things were small openings in the wall for arrows to be shot at enemies. 

Go to:

 

http://books.google.com/books?id=O8GKt_PPjr8C&pg=PA56&lpg=PA56&dq=narrow+window+middle+age&source=bl&ots=uBS4DtkIY1&sig=q7ig7RMtGLx0nyoRDkLBr7kOy10&hl=en&ei=7-bWTIGKMsGYOuvR9MQJ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CCgQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q&f=false 

Industry vs artisan culture - The concept of wide in Artisan Culture

"Via Larga", as the name suggests, is one of the most wide sreteet of the Florence'centre. It was often the host of market, feast, and manifestation.

Go to: http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Via_Cavour_%28Firenze%29#Via_Larga

 

Metaphor

 

The concept of "metaphor" itself could be expressed by the concept of wide-narrow. As we can see in the image above (that is the cover of the book "Metaphor: A Practical Introduction" by Zoltan Kovecses) the whole knowledge is obtained from a wide net of notions that men organize creating links that create metaphors. All this knowledge tighten itself to create immediate link in the mind of men. 

Go to : http://ebook68.com/metaphor-a-practical-introduction-second-edition.html

Concepts - Capsule hotel

A capsule hotel (カプセルホテル, kapuseru hoteru) is a type of hotel in Japan with a wide number of extremely narrow "rooms" (capsules).

Go to: http://www.capsuleinn.com/ 

Thing - Aperture

In optics, an aperture is a hole or an opening through which light travels. More specifically, the aperture of an optical system is the opening that determines the cone angle of a bundle of rays that come to a focus in the image plane. The aperture determines how collimated the admitted rays are, which is of great importance for the appearance at the image plane. If an aperture is narrow, then highly collimated rays are admitted, resulting in a sharp focus at the image plane. If an aperture is wide, then uncollimated rays are admitted, resulting in a sharp focus only for rays with a certain focal length. This means that a wide aperture results in an image that is sharp around what the lens is focusing on and blurred otherwise. The aperture also determines how many of the incoming rays are actually admitted and thus how much light reaches the image plane (the narrower the aperture, the darker the image for a given exposure time).

Go to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aperture 

Thing - Funnel

A funnel is a pipe with a wide, often conical mouth and a narrow stem. It is used to channel liquid or fine-grained substances into containers with a small opening. Without a funnel, spillage would occur.

Go to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funnel  

Architecture - The Olimpic Arc of Turin

The arc is so slim, whit its narrow structure,  but with ist wide radius it gives a sense of breadth.

 Go to: http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arco_olimpico_di_Torino

Alphabet of the pair of adjectives

Angle

 
Broadway

 
Cave

Door

Eye of the needle

Funnel

 

Gap 

 

Hourglass

  




Interval









  

Jeans

Kitchen









 
Lens

Mind

Neck

Ocean

Passage

Quadrangle

Range

Screen

Tunnel

U - underground, undersea, union, urrs


View

Window

XGA (Extended Graphics Adapter)

 
Youtube

 
Zoom

Synonyms- Wide, Narrow

Synonyms for wide

http://www.synonym.com

- wide (vs. narrow)

- broad

-  ample

- beamy

- bird's-eye

- panoramic

- broad-brimmed

- deep

- fanlike

- sweeping

- wide-screen

- spacious

 

Synonyms for narrow

Sense 1:

- contract
- constricting
- constrictive
- narrowing
- narrowed
- narrow-mouthed
- slender, thin
- strait
- straplike
- tapered, tapering, narrowing

 

Sense 2: 

- limited
- narrow-minded (vs. broad-minded)
- close-minded
- closed-minded
- dogmatic, dogmaticla
- illiberal, intolerant
- opinionated, opinionative, self-opinionated
- petty, small-minded

 

Literature - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (commonly shortened to Alice in Wonderland) is an 1865 novel written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll. It tells the story of a girl named Alice who falls down a rabbit hole into a fantasy world populated by peculiar and anthropomorphic creatures. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice%27s_Adventures_in_Wonderland ) 

In the novel we can often find the concepts of wide and narrow, as we can see below.

 

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson ( Lewis Carroll), Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, London, Macmillan and Co, 1865, pp.  43 - 54.

Dictionary - TheFreeDictionary

From internet dictionary "TheFreeDictionary"

wide

adjective

1. having a great extent from side to side

2. of vast size or scope; spacious or extensive

3.

  a.  (postpositive) having a specified extent, esp from side to side two yards wide

  b.  (in combination) covering or extending throughout nationwide

4. distant or remote from the desired point, mark, etc. your guess is wide of the mark

5. (of eyes) opened fully

6. loose, full, or roomy wide trousers

7. exhibiting a considerable spread, as between certain limits a wide variation

8. (Linguistics / Phonetics & Phonology) Phonetics another word for lax [4], open [34]

narrow

adjective

1. small in breadth, esp in comparison to length

2. limited in range or extent

3. limited in outlook; lacking breadth of vision

4. limited in means or resources; meagre narrow resources

5. barely adequate or successful (esp in the phrase a narrow escape)

6. painstakingly thorough; minute a narrow scrutiny

7. (Economics, Accounting & Finance / Banking & Finance) Finance denoting an assessment of liquidity as including notes and coin in circulation with the public, banks' till money, and banks' balances narrow money Compare broad [14]

8. Dialect overcareful with money; parsimonious

9. (Linguistics / Phonetics & Phonology) Phonetics

  a.  another word for tense1 [4]

  b.  relating to or denoting a transcription used to represent phonetic rather than phonemic distinctions

  c.  another word for close1 [21]

10. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Agriculture) (of agricultural feeds) especially rich in protein

narrow squeak Informal an escape only just managed

Literature

The Wide and the Narrow
Auther : M. E. Dilworth

Story Description
A man’s hunt for his missing cousin brings him face to face with agents of darkness. To rescue his cousin, he must now call enemies allies and face an even greater enemy. Two lonely souls find in each other the parts of themselves that they were missing, and in doing so, they find the balance between perfect discipline and perfect love. A boy succumbs to the brutality in his life and lashes out at everyone, only to find that what he had wanted all along had always been within his grasp. A heartbroken teenager fulfills a dream only to find in doing so he has ruined the lives of the people around him. Now it falls to him to set it right. But how? A pair of children in Western Haiti confront an ancient evil that has plagued their home for centuries. But can mere children defeat an evil that can manipulate the earth itself? A man confronts the evil of his past and must now fight fire with fire when an old enemy returns. Here are six tales of facing the darkness within and without in events that eerily mirror our own.

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