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.

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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


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Synonyms- Wide, Narrow

Synonyms for wide

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- 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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