to whittle down to size

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• whittle down — verb cut away in small pieces • Syn: ↑whittle away, ↑wear away • Hypernyms: ↑damage • Verb Frames: Somebody s something Something s something * * * ˌ …   Useful english dictionary

• whittle down — phrasal verb [transitive] Word forms whittle down : present tense I/you/we/they whittle down he/she/it whittles down present participle whittling down past tense whittled down past participle whittled down to reduce the number of people or things …   English dictionary

• whittle something down — ˌwhittle sthˈdown derived to reduce the size or number of sth • I finally managed to whittle down the names on the list to only five. Main entry: ↑whittlederived …   Useful english dictionary

• whittle — whit|tle [ wıtl, hwıtl ] verb transitive to make an object out of wood by cutting pieces off the wood with a small knife ,whittle a way phrasal verb intransitive or transitive to gradually reduce the amount or importance of something: The team… …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

• ˌwhittle sth ˈdown — phrasal verb to reduce the number of people or things, or the size of something …   Dictionary for writing and speaking English

• Frank Whittle — Infobox Person name = Frank Whittle image size = 300px caption = birth name = birth date = birth date|1907|6|1|df=y birth place = Earlsdon, Coventry, England. death date = death date and age|1996|8|9|1907|6|1|df=y death place = Columbia, Maryland …   Wikipedia

• trim — v 1. clip, snip, nip, prune, pare; cut, bob, crop, shingle; shear, shave, fleece, pollard, poll, scalp, cut down to the quick; neaten, even up; shape, form, fashion, sculpt, sculp, sculpture. 2.Often trim off dock, bobtail, lop, chop, hack, cut… …   A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

• naval warfare — Military operations conducted on, under, or over the sea and waged against other seagoing vessels or targets on land or in the air. The earliest naval attacks were raids by the armed men of a tribe or town using fishing boats or merchant ships.… …   Universalium

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• Type 93 torpedo — The Type 93 was a 610 mm (24 inch) diameter torpedo of the Imperial Japanese Navy. Called the Long Lance by most modern English language naval histories (a nickname given by Samuel E. Morison, a historian who spent much of the war in the Pacific… …   Wikipedia

• Saison 5 de Chapeau melon et bottes de cuir (première série) — Article détaillé présentant les épisodes[1] de la cinquième saison (1967), en couleurs, de la série télévisée britannique Chapeau melon et bottes de cuir, première série (The Avengers). Sommaire 1 Données communes à tous les épisodes …   Wikipédia en Français