Crossword clues for fewest
fewest
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Few \Few\ (f[=u]),
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[Compar. Fewer (f[=u]"[~e]r); superl. Fewest.] [OE. fewe, feawe, AS. fe['a], pl. fe['a]we; akin to OS. f[=a]h, OHG. f[=o] fao, Icel. f[=a]r, Sw. f[*a], pl., Dan. faa, pl., Goth. faus, L. paucus, cf. Gr. pay^ros. Cf. Paucity.] Not many; small, limited, or confined in number; -- indicating a small portion of units or individuals constituting a whole; often, by ellipsis of a noun, a few people. ``Are not my days few?''
--Job x. 20.Few know and fewer care.
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Note: Few is often used partitively; as, few of them.
A few, a small number.
In few, in a few words; briefly.
--Shak.No few, not few; more than a few; many.
--Cowper.The few, the minority; -- opposed to the many or the majority.
Wiktionary
det. (form of superlative few English); the smallest number.
WordNet
adj. (superlative of `few' used with count nouns and usually preceded by `the') quantifier meaning the smallest in number; "the fewest birds in recent memory" [syn: fewest(a)] [ant: most(a)]
Usage examples of "fewest".
Can you give a correct solution that employs (1) the fewest possible signs, and (2) the fewest possible separate strokes or dots of the pen?
I have already said that the ideal solution to a cutting-out puzzle is always that which requires the fewest possible pieces.
The answer to the question is that the puzzle may be solved in four pieces—the fewest possible.
Hobson to cut the rug into the fewest possible pieces that will fit together and form a perfectly square rug?
I want to discover a way of cutting this piece of wood into the fewest possible pieces that will fit together and form two perfect squares of different sizes and of known dimensions.
Can you show how they perform their feat in the fewest possible moves?
Try to solve her difficulty in the fewest possible removals with counters on a sheet of paper.
If every queen must attack (or be protected by) another queen, there are at fewest 41 arrangements, and I have recorded some 150 ways in which some of the queens are attacked and some not, but this last case is very difficult to enumerate exactly.
The lion, curiously enough, also visited every cell once and only once in the fewest possible straight lines until he finally reached the man's cell.
Place the bishop on any square you like, and so contrive that (using the ordinary bishop's move of chess) he shall visit every one of his parishes in the fewest possible moves.
When you have succeeded in doing it at all, try to find the fewest possible moves.
How is the puzzle to be solved in the fewest possible moves without two dogs ever being together?
If you can show how it was to be done at all, then try to find the way that requires the fewest possible manipulations, every separate pouring from one vessel to another, or down a man's throat, counting as a manipulation.
The puzzle is to show how they got over the river in the fewest possible crossings, taking their treasure with them.
The reader should seek first to solve the puzzle in the fewest possible moves, and then see that the man who is burdened has the least possible amount of work to do.