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ˈnær oʊznar·rows

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  1. narrowsnoun

    A narrow part of a navigable waterway.

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  1. Narrows

    A narrows or narrow (used interchangeably but usually in the plural form), is a restricted land or water passage. Most commonly a narrows is a strait, though it can also be a water gap. A narrows may form where a stream passes through a tilted bed of hard rock lying between two softer beds: "[i]f the hard beds are vertical, so that their outcrop does not shift as erosion proceeds, a narrows is developed". Like a dam, this "raises the water level for a short distance upriver". A narrows is also typically a good location for trapping migrating fish. Furthermore, a narrows is "an important topographical feature for wind mixing", an effect where a wind chill may form ice while the surrounding temperature remains above freezing.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Narrows

    of Narrow

Wikidata

  1. Narrows

    Narrows, named for the narrowing of the New River that flows past it, is a town in Giles County, Virginia, United States. The population was 2,029 at the 2010 census, a decline of 3.9% from the 2000 census count of 2,111. It is part of the Blacksburg–Christiansburg–Radford Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Dictionary of Nautical Terms

  1. narrows

    The most confined part of a channel between two lands, or any contracted part of a navigable river.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of narrows in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of narrows in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of narrows in a Sentence

  1. Jeff Weaver:

    At the end of the day, you got 10 people each night in a two-hour block. Until the race sort of narrows down, you're not really going to have, I think, a lot of substantive back-and-forth between the candidates. Just because there's not enough time to do it.

  2. Bill Gross:

    A purchase of Treasuries and a sale of Bunds allows for not only a potential capital gain if the spread narrows, but a yield pickup while the Rip Van Winkle investor potentially waits for a probable outcome.

  3. Yoshiaki Takahashi:

    Just at the time when stress increases for them, their world narrows, we need to open things out.

  4. Melanie Brucks:

    This visual focus on the screen narrows cognition. In other words, people are more focused when interacting on video, which hurts the broad, expansive idea generation process.

  5. Robert Frost:

    A definite purpose, like blinders on a horse, inevitably narrows its possessor's point of view.

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