Some articles on smaller:
... A corvette (sometimes corvet) is a small, maneuverable, lightly armed warship, originally smaller than a frigate (2000+ tons) and larger than a coastal patrol craft or fast ... During the Age of Sail, corvettes were smaller than frigates and larger than sloops-of-war, usually with a single gun deck ... Although almost all modern navies use ships smaller than frigates for coastal duty, not all of them use the term corvette (via Middle French, from a Dutch word corf, a type ...
... ji-zamurai (地侍?), also known as kokujin (国人?), were lords of smaller rural domains in feudal Japan ... One of the primary causes for the rise in the number of smaller land holders was a decline in the custom of primogeniture ... split among a lord's sons, making each heir's holdings, and thus their power, smaller ...
... which hoped to maintain the independence of the smaller states, and was the opponent of all attempts on the part of Prussia to attract them into a separate union ... In 1854 he took part in the Bamberg conferences, in which the smaller German states claimed the right to direct their own policy independently of Austria or of Prussia, and he was the leading ... that the smaller states should form a closer union among themselves against the preponderance of the great monarchies ...
... There is also a smaller version of Roboraptor available ... It is not an autonomous robot so much as it is a wind-up toy, though the smaller version does actually run on batteries ... It is a smaller, cheaper, less functional Roboraptor ...
... as the "thoppi" or "eda bhaaga" and the smaller aperture is known as the "valanthalai" or "bala bhaaga" ... The smaller membrane, when struck, produces higher pitched sounds with a metallic timbre ... The goat skin covering the smaller aperture is anointed in the center with a black disk made of rice flour, ferric oxide powder and starch ...
Famous quotes containing the word smaller:
“He [Robert Benchley] and I had an office so tiny that an inch smaller and it would have been adultery.”
—Dorothy Parker (1893–1967)
“It might be seen by what tenure men held the earth. The smallest stream is mediterranean sea, a smaller ocean creek within the land, where men may steer by their farm bounds and cottage lights. For my own part, but for the geographers, I should hardly have known how large a portion of our globe is water, my life has chiefly passed within so deep a cove. Yet I have sometimes ventured as far as to the mouth of my Snug Harbor.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Here is the paradox: What children take from us, they give. When we are not totally “free,” we learn how to cope with a smaller world, less time, less luxury,... We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply and love more deeply.”
—Sonia Taitz (20th century)