What does narrow down mean?

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nar·row down

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. pin down, peg down, nail down, narrow down, narrow, specifyverb

    define clearly

    "I cannot narrow down the rules for this game"

  2. specialize, specialise, narrow, narrow downverb

    become more focus on an area of activity or field of study

    "She specializes in Near Eastern history"

Wiktionary

  1. narrow downverb

    Make more specific.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of narrow down in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of narrow down in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of narrow down in a Sentence

  1. Sven Spichiger:

    We did get an initial direction of the flight, we were able to meet with several of the property owners and get a few more eyewitness accounts of seeing hornets earlier the week before or earlier in the summer, and so we are starting to narrow down exactly where the hornets' nest is.

  2. Carolyn Spencer Brown:

    Critic Editors ' live and breathe cruising, sailing year-round and covering every aspect of the industry -- from new ships and programs to updated amenities and features, with so many wonderful cruise options available, it's never an easy list to narrow down, but these awards truly represent the lines that our experts have recognized as the best of the best.

  3. Wendy Setiawan:

    We need to have a better way to identify patients with early pancreatic cancer, so we wanted to understand what are the characteristics of people in our study and other populations that help narrow down who are the high-risk populations.

  4. Alex Yampolskiy:

    They’re going to try to do some forensic work because those documents probably have been changed [over time], so that enables them to narrow down the period to when they were taken, once you say ‘this seems like it was a snapshot from this particular time,’ then they can look at audit logs of who had access to the document during that time frame.

  5. Rajan Bargotra:

    It is important to know why ELT has not worked as it could have helped narrow down the location of the plane.


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  • सीमित कर लेनाHindi
  • குறுகிTamil

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