'Belittle - to make small,unimportant.'

VOA: special.2010.08.08

Other companies such as Suzuki,Nissan, Toyota,and Honda have already announced plans to spend about $5 billion to make small cars in India or increase production at their existing plants over the next three years.

VOA: standard.2009.09.25

Turkey meat can also be cut into small pieces and added to vegetables and liquid to make soups and stews.

VOA: special.2010.05.28

This French artist uses small colorful squares of glass to make an image of a space creature.

VOA: special.2009.04.08

The small lights make up the exact pattern of stars in the sky on the day the park opened in two thousand one.

VOA: special.2009.05.06

Milton Levine did not want to make bobby pins, the small fasteners for women's hair.

VOA: special.2011.02.15

If the stock continues to rise in price in the next few minutes, the day trader sells the shares quickly to make a small profit.

VOA: special.2010.10.10

I tried to make myself small in the tree, as the branches rubbed against me.

VOA: special.2009.11.15

The idea is to make a small profit many times during the day.

VOA: special.2009.04.26

But these small differences make each person an individual, different from others.

VOA: special.2010.03.23

She says small changes multiplied by millions can make a huge difference.

VOA: special.2009.11.06

The huge old trees can make you feel very, very small.

VOA: special.2009.01.07

"It was just a project to see how small we could make robots." Mr. Spletzer came to the museum with a gift box of mini-robots that include the Miniature Autonomous Robotic Vehicle or MARV.

VOA: special.2011.06.21

President Obama said the government will make it easier for workers at small businesses to automatically enroll in retirement savings plans.

VOA: standard.2009.09.05

But in a small,short person, Skinner says,just 3 kilograms can make the difference between a healthy weight and obesity.

VOA: standard.2010.03.09

For them,the hope is that the plantations provide enough jobs to make up for the small farms lost.

VOA: standard.2010.06.02