What does Dwarf mean?

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. dwarf, midget, nanusnoun

    a person who is markedly small

  2. gnome, dwarfnoun

    a legendary creature resembling a tiny old man; lives in the depths of the earth and guards buried treasure

  3. dwarfverb

    a plant or animal that is atypically small

  4. shadow, overshadow, dwarfverb

    make appear small by comparison

    "This year's debt dwarfs that of last year"

  5. dwarfverb

    check the growth of

    "the lack of sunlight dwarfed these pines"

GCIDE

  1. Dwarfnoun

    Especially: A diminutive human being, small in stature due to a pathological condition which causes a distortion of the proportions of body parts to each other, such as the limbs, torso, and head. A person of unusually small height who has normal body proportions is usually called a midget.

  2. Dwarfnoun

    (Folklore) A small, usually misshapen person, typically a man, who may have magical powers; mythical dwarves were often depicted as living underground in caves.

Wiktionary

  1. dwarfnoun

    A creature from (especially Scandinavian and other Germanic) folklore, usually depicted as having supernatural powers and being skilled in metalworking. Sometimes pluralized dwarves, especially in modern fantasy literature.

  2. dwarfnoun

    A person with short stature, often one whose limbs are disproportionately small in relation to the body as compared with normal adults, usually as the result of a genetic condition.

  3. dwarfnoun

    An animal, plant or other thing much smaller than the usual of its sort.

  4. dwarfnoun

    A star of relatively small size.

  5. dwarfverb

    To render (much) smaller, turn into a dwarf (version)

  6. dwarfverb

    To make appear (much) smaller, puny, tiny

    The newly-built skyscraper dwarfs all older buildings in the downtown skyline.

  7. dwarfverb

    To make appear insignificant

    Bach dwarfs all other composers.

  8. dwarfverb

    To become (much) smaller

  9. dwarfadjective

    miniature

  10. Etymology: Via dwerf (variously spelt dwerf, dwergh and many other ways), from dweorg (variously dweorg, dweorh, duerg before 900), from dwergaz, cognate with Old High German twerc (German Zwerg), Old Norse dvergr (Swedish dvärg), Old Frisian dwirg, Middle Low German dwerch, dwarch, twerg (Low German Dwarg, Dwarch), Middle Dutch dwerch, dworch (Dutch dwerg). The Germanic word is perhaps from a dhu̯er- "harm, deceive"; compare Sanskrit dhvárati ("he bends, hurts"), dhvarás ("class of female demons").

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. DWARFnoun

    Etymology: dweorg, Sax. dwerg, Dutch; sherg, Scottish.

    Get you gone, you dwarf!
    You minimus, of hind’ring knot-grass made. William Shakespeare.

    Such dwarfs were some kind of apes. Thomas Browne, Vulg. Err.

    They but now who seem’d
    In bigness to surpass earth’s giant sons,
    Now less than smallest dwarfs in narrow room
    Throng numberless. John Milton, Paradise Lost, b. i. l. 779.

    It is a delicate plantation of trees, all well-grown, fair, and smooth: one dwarf was knotty and crooked, and the rest had it in derision. Roger L'Estrange.

    Saw off the head of the stock in a smooth place; and for dwarf trees, graft them within four fingers of the ground. John Mortimer, Art of Husbandry.

    The champion stout,
    Eftstoones dismounted from his courser brave,
    And to the dwarf a-while his needless spear he gave. F. Qu.

  2. To Dwarfverb

    To hinder from growing to the natural bulk; to lessen; to make little.

    Etymology: from the noun.

    It is reported that a good strong canvas, spread over a tree grafted low, soon after it putteth forth, will dwarf it, and make it spread. Francis Bacon, Natural History, №. 534.

    The whole sex is in a manner dwarfed, and shrunk into a race of beauties, that seems almost another species. Addison.

Wikipedia

  1. DWARF

    DWARF is a widely used, standardized debugging data format. DWARF was originally designed along with Executable and Linkable Format (ELF), although it is independent of object file formats. The name is a medieval fantasy complement to "ELF" that had no official meaning, although the backronym "Debugging With Arbitrary Record Formats" has since been proposed.

ChatGPT

  1. dwarf

    A dwarf is generally defined as 1) an individual, animal, or plant considered to be very small in comparison to other species or types of its kind, or 2) in astronomy, a star that is of relatively small size or mass. This term is often used in the classification of small planets, such as dwarf planets, or in the concept of dwarf stars in astronomy. In mythology and fantasy, a dwarf is also a member of a mythical race of short, stocky human-like creatures who are generally skilled in mining and metalworking.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Dwarfnoun

    an animal or plant which is much below the ordinary size of its species or kind; especially, a diminutive human being

  2. Dwarfverb

    to hinder from growing to the natural size; to make or keep small; to stunt

  3. Dwarfverb

    to become small; to diminish in size

  4. Etymology: [OE. dwergh, dwerf, dwarf, AS. dweorg, dweorh; akin to D. dwerg, MHG. twerc, G. zwerg, Icel. dvergr, Sw. & Dan. dverg; of unknown origin.]

Wikidata

  1. Dwarf

    In the fiction of J. R. R. Tolkien, the Dwarves are a race inhabiting the world of Arda, a fictional prehistoric Earth which includes the continent Middle-earth. They appear in his books The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and the posthumously published The Silmarillion, Unfinished Tales, and The History of Middle-earth series, the last three edited by his son and literary executor Christopher Tolkien.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Dwarf

    dwawrf, n. an animal or plant that does not reach the ordinary height: a diminutive man.—v.t. to hinder from growing: to make to appear small.—adjs. Dwarf′ish, Dwarf, like a dwarf: very small: despicable.—adv. Dwarf′ishly.—n. Dwarf′ishness.—Dwarfed trees, small trees growing in flower-pots, a characteristic ornament in Chinese and Japanese houses and gardens. [A.S. dweorg; Dut. dwerg, Ice. dvergr, Ger. zwerg.]

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Dwarf in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Dwarf in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of Dwarf in a Sentence

  1. Neil Gormley:

    When you add up all the costs and all the benefits, the health benefits of this rule dwarf the costs to the industry. The public gets 9 dollars of health benefits for every what 1 dollar the industry spends.

  2. Peter Williams:

    Even though brown dwarfs are completely covered in clouds, they're too far away for us to pick out individual clouds like we do on planets within our solar system. But we can still measure how long it takes for a group of clouds to do a lap around the atmosphere ; as clouds come in and out of view they change the brightness of the planet, this lap time depends on two things : how fast the brown dwarf itself is spinning, and how fast the wind is blowing on top of that.

  3. J. Petit-Senn:

    Where talent is a dwarf, self-esteem is a giant.

  4. Tinggui Wang:

    A white dwarf is a very compact star, as such, close to the star, the gradient of the gravitational field can be very large.

  5. Katelyn Allers:

    Since the magnetic field originates deep in the planet, or in this case brown dwarf, the radio data allows us to determine the interior period of rotation, when you have an interior rotation rate and an atmospheric rotation rate, you can compare them to see how fast the wind is blowing.

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