Definition: small

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Source: WordNet (r) 1.7 

small
     adj 1: limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude
            or extent; "a little dining room"; "a little house";
            "a small car"; "a little (or small) group"; " a small
            voice" [syn: little] [ant: large, large]
     2: limited in size or scope; "a small business"; "a newspaper
        with a modest circulation"; "small-scale plans"; "a
        pocket-size country" [syn: minor, modest, small-scale,
         pocket-size, pocket-sized]
     3: low or inferior in station or quality; "a humble cottage";
        "a lowly parish priest"; "a modest man of the people";
        "small beginnings" [syn: humble, low, lowly, modest]
     4: made to seem smaller or less (especially in worth); "her
        comments made me feel small" [syn: belittled, diminished]
     5: not fully grown; "what a big little boy you are"; "small
        children" [syn: little]
     6: too small to be seen except under a microscope [syn: microscopic,
         microscopical] [ant: macroscopic]
     7: not large but sufficient in size or amount; "a modest
        salary"; "modest inflation"; "helped in my own small way"
        [syn: modest]
     8: (of a voice) faint; "a little voice"; "a still small voice"
        [syn: little]
     9: (archaic) slight or limited; especially in degree or
        intensity or scope; "a series of death struggles with
        small time in between" [syn: small]
     10: lowercase; "little a"; "small a"; "e.e.cummings's poetry is
         written all in minuscule letters" [syn: little, minuscule]
     11: have fine or very small constituent particles; "a small
         misty rain"
     n 1: the slender part of the back
     2: a garment size for a small person
     adv : on a small scale; "think small" [ant: big]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) 

Small \Small\, adv.
   1. In or to small extent, quantity, or degree; little;
      slightly. [Obs.] ``I wept but small.'' --Chaucer. ``It
      small avails my mood.'' --Shak.

   2. Not loudly; faintly; timidly. [Obs. or Humorous]

            You may speak as small as you will.   --Shak.
Small \Small\, n.
   1. The small or slender part of a thing; as, the small of the
      leg or of the back.

   2. pl. Smallclothes. [Colloq.] --Hood. Dickens.

   3. pl. Same as Little go. See under Little, a.
Small \Small\, v. t.
   To make little or less. [Obs.]
Small \Small\ (sm[add]l), a. [Compar. Smaller; superl.
   Smallest.] [OE. small, AS. sm[ae]l; akin to D. smal narrow,
   OS. & OHG. smal small, G. schmal narrow, Dan. & Sw. smal,
   Goth. smals small, Icel. smali smal cattle, sheep, or goats;
   cf. Gr. mh^lon a sheep or goat.]
   1. Having little size, compared with other things of the same
      kind; little in quantity or degree; diminutive; not large
      or extended in dimension; not great; not much;
      inconsiderable; as, a small man; a small river.

            To compare Great things with small.   --Milton.

   2. Being of slight consequence; feeble in influence or
      importance; unimportant; trivial; insignificant; as, a
      small fault; a small business.

   3. Envincing little worth or ability; not large-minded; --
      sometimes, in reproach, paltry; mean.

            A true delineation of the smallest man is capable of
            interesting the greatest man.         --Carlyle.

Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (2003-OCT-10) 

SMALL

   1. Functional, lazy, untyped.

   ["SMALL - A Small Interactive Functional System",
   L. Augustsson, TR 28, U Goteborg and Chalmers U, 1986].

   2. A toy language used to illustrate denotational
   semantics.

   ["The Denotational Description of Programming Languages",
   M.J.C. Gordon, Springer 1979].