Collocations for small - adj.
VERBS
be,
feel,
look,
seem
become, get, grow
The gap seemed to be getting smaller.
The kite grew smaller and smaller and finally disappeared altogether.
become, get, grow
The gap seemed to be getting smaller.
The kite grew smaller and smaller and finally disappeared altogether.
remain,
stay
Choose plants that will stay small.
Choose plants that will stay small.
keep sth,
make sth
Technology has made the world smaller.
Technology has made the world smaller.
PHRASES
big and small,
large and small
Employers, large and small, face massive fines.
Employers, large and small, face massive fines.
smaller and smaller
The phones are getting smaller and smaller.
The phones are getting smaller and smaller.
Small is used with these nouns:
accident, acquisition, ad, adjustment, airport, allowance, alteration, amendment, amount, apartment, appetite, area, arms, army, attic, audience, baby, bag, band, bank, batch, beak, bedroom, bet, birthmark, bit, block, boat, bomb, bouquet, bow, bowel, boy, brandy, breast, brother, budget, build, building, bump, bunch, bundle, business, businessman, businesswoman, campus, capacity, cast, catch, cave, celebration, chain, change, chapel, charge, child, chore, chunk, circle, circulation, city, claim, class, click, clientele, closet, clump, cluster, coke, collection, colony, comfort, commission, community, company, compensation, complaint, concession, confines, congregation, consolation, contingent, contribution, corner, correction, cottage, crack, craft, crater, creature, creek, crowd, crush, cry, crystal, cubicle, cupboard, cut, daughter, decrease, defect, deficit, degree, delegation, delivery, dent, depression, desk, detail, detour, diameter, difference, dimension, dining room, disappointment, discrepancy, distance, distributor, ditch, donation, dose, dowry, drop, earthquake, electric shock, employer, engine, enterprise, entrepreneur, envelope, errand, error, estate, exclamation, exhibit, exhibition, expedition, explosion, factory, fall, family, farm, farmer, favour, feat, fee, figure, fine, fireplace, firm, fist, flame, flap, flashlight, flat, flaw, fleet, flicker, flower, fluctuation, following, foot, force, format, fortune, fraction, frame, frown, fry, gadget, gain, gap, garden, gash, gasp, gathering, gesture, gift, giggle, gin, girl, government, grain, grant, graze, grimace, grin, groan, group, growl, grunt, gust, handful, heap, helping, herd, hiccup, hill, hint, hip, hoard, hole, hotel, hour, house, huddle, hut, improvement, incident, incision, income, increase, indulgence, inheritance, instrument, intestine, investment, investor, job, jump, kindness, kitchen, knife, lake, lane, laugh, lead, leak, leap, ledge, letter, library, loaf, loan, loss, lot, lump, luxury, magnitude, majority, mammal, manufacturer, margin, market, minority, miracle, moan, moon, mortgage, motel, motor, mound, mountain, moustache, mouth, movement, mystery, nail, nation, niche, nod, noise, nose, number, object, office, opening, operation, operator, orchestra, order, organization, outfit, outlay, package, painting, pan, pang, parcel, part, passage, pause, penis, pension, percentage, piece, pile, pizza, plane, pleasure, plot, pocket, pond, pool, population, portion, premium, print, procession, producer, profit, project, proportion, publisher, puff, quantity, rebellion, reception, recess, reduction, refrigerator, region, remnant, repertoire, replica, reserve, restaurant, retailer, return, ripple, rise, risk, river, road, rock, role, room, salary, sample, saucepan, saver, scale, scar, scissors, scrap, scratch, screen, section, selection, settlement, shack, shake, share, shareholder, sherry, shiver, shopkeeper, shopping centre, shrub, shrug, shudder, sigh, sip, size, skillet, skirmish, slice, smirk, snack, snag, sniff, snippet, snort, sob, son, space, specimen, splash, squeak, stake, statue, stature, step, stool, store, stream, stretch, subsidy, sum, supplier, supply, surcharge, surplus, swing, table, task, taste, theatre, thing, tip, token, touch, town, trace, trader, tree, tremor, trickle, triumph, tug, unit, user, valley, variation, victory, village, vocabulary, voice, volume, wage, waist, waterfall, wave, weakness, wedding, whimper, whisky, window, workforce, world, wrist, writing, yard, yelp
accident, acquisition, ad, adjustment, airport, allowance, alteration, amendment, amount, apartment, appetite, area, arms, army, attic, audience, baby, bag, band, bank, batch, beak, bedroom, bet, birthmark, bit, block, boat, bomb, bouquet, bow, bowel, boy, brandy, breast, brother, budget, build, building, bump, bunch, bundle, business, businessman, businesswoman, campus, capacity, cast, catch, cave, celebration, chain, change, chapel, charge, child, chore, chunk, circle, circulation, city, claim, class, click, clientele, closet, clump, cluster, coke, collection, colony, comfort, commission, community, company, compensation, complaint, concession, confines, congregation, consolation, contingent, contribution, corner, correction, cottage, crack, craft, crater, creature, creek, crowd, crush, cry, crystal, cubicle, cupboard, cut, daughter, decrease, defect, deficit, degree, delegation, delivery, dent, depression, desk, detail, detour, diameter, difference, dimension, dining room, disappointment, discrepancy, distance, distributor, ditch, donation, dose, dowry, drop, earthquake, electric shock, employer, engine, enterprise, entrepreneur, envelope, errand, error, estate, exclamation, exhibit, exhibition, expedition, explosion, factory, fall, family, farm, farmer, favour, feat, fee, figure, fine, fireplace, firm, fist, flame, flap, flashlight, flat, flaw, fleet, flicker, flower, fluctuation, following, foot, force, format, fortune, fraction, frame, frown, fry, gadget, gain, gap, garden, gash, gasp, gathering, gesture, gift, giggle, gin, girl, government, grain, grant, graze, grimace, grin, groan, group, growl, grunt, gust, handful, heap, helping, herd, hiccup, hill, hint, hip, hoard, hole, hotel, hour, house, huddle, hut, improvement, incident, incision, income, increase, indulgence, inheritance, instrument, intestine, investment, investor, job, jump, kindness, kitchen, knife, lake, lane, laugh, lead, leak, leap, ledge, letter, library, loaf, loan, loss, lot, lump, luxury, magnitude, majority, mammal, manufacturer, margin, market, minority, miracle, moan, moon, mortgage, motel, motor, mound, mountain, moustache, mouth, movement, mystery, nail, nation, niche, nod, noise, nose, number, object, office, opening, operation, operator, orchestra, order, organization, outfit, outlay, package, painting, pan, pang, parcel, part, passage, pause, penis, pension, percentage, piece, pile, pizza, plane, pleasure, plot, pocket, pond, pool, population, portion, premium, print, procession, producer, profit, project, proportion, publisher, puff, quantity, rebellion, reception, recess, reduction, refrigerator, region, remnant, repertoire, replica, reserve, restaurant, retailer, return, ripple, rise, risk, river, road, rock, role, room, salary, sample, saucepan, saver, scale, scar, scissors, scrap, scratch, screen, section, selection, settlement, shack, shake, share, shareholder, sherry, shiver, shopkeeper, shopping centre, shrub, shrug, shudder, sigh, sip, size, skillet, skirmish, slice, smirk, snack, snag, sniff, snippet, snort, sob, son, space, specimen, splash, squeak, stake, statue, stature, step, stool, store, stream, stretch, subsidy, sum, supplier, supply, surcharge, surplus, swing, table, task, taste, theatre, thing, tip, token, touch, town, trace, trader, tree, tremor, trickle, triumph, tug, unit, user, valley, variation, victory, village, vocabulary, voice, volume, wage, waist, waterfall, wave, weakness, wedding, whimper, whisky, window, workforce, world, wrist, writing, yard, yelp