Definitions for dwarf
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Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:2.7 / 3 votes

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"

GCIDERate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

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.

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

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 DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. DWARFnoun

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

   1. A man below the common size of men.

   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.

   2. Any animal or plant below its natural bulk.

   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.

   3. An attendant on a lady or knight in romances.

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

   4. It is used often by botanists in composition; as, dwarf elder, dwarf honeysuckle.

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.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

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.

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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 DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

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.]

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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 DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

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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How to pronounce dwarf?

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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. David Bennett:

   Earth's future may not be so rosy because it is much closer to the Sun, if humankind wanted to move to a moon of Jupiter or Saturn before the Sun fried the Earth during its red supergiant phase, we'd still remain in orbit around the Sun, although we would not be able to rely on heat from the Sun as a white dwarf for very long.

2. Steven Parsons:

   This pulsating white dwarf we discovered is extremely important since we can use the binary motion and the eclipse to independently measure the mass and radius of this white dwarf, which helps us determine what it is made.

3. Jim Green:

   The New Horizons mission has taken what we thought we knew about Pluto and turned it upside down, the New Horizons mission's why we explore -- to satisfy our innate curiosity and answer deeper questions about how we got here and what lies beyond the next horizon. Related : Spacecraft achieves flyby of Pluto, then calls home September NASA, which is discussing a slew of Pluto discoveries at the 47th Annual Meeting of the American Astronomical Society’s Division for Planetary Sciences in National Harbor, Md. this week, highlighted the ‘ cryovolcanoes ’ as a key finding. Geologists on the New Horizons team combined images of Pluto’s surface to make 3-D maps that indicate two of Pluto’s most distinctive mountains could be ice volcanoes. In its statement September NASA explained that the ‘ cryovolcanoes ’ may even have been active in the recent past. The two candidates are large features on the dwarf planet’s surface measuring tens of miles across and several miles high. Related : September NASA releases first Pluto flyby images.

4. Ted Williams:

   But there is another class of compact objects called white dwarfs, bigger, the size of the earth. So rather than 10 kilometers in size we are looking at 6,000 kilometers and we’ve just discovered the very first white dwarf pulsar.

5. Andrew Feinstein:

   I fear that the corruption in this deal might dwarf the arms deal.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=dwarf
2. ^ GCIDE
   https://gcide.gnu.org.ua/?q=dwarf
3. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Dwarf
4. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=dwarf
5. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwarf
6. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
7. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dwarf
8. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=dwarf
9. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=dwarf
10. ^ Usage in printed sources
    https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=dwarf