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Gnome and Dwarf Definitions

Gnome

One of a fabled race of dwarflike creatures who live underground and guard treasure hoards.

Dwarf

A person with a usually genetic disorder resulting in atypically short stature and often disproportionate limbs.

Gnome

In the occult philosophy of Paracelsus, a being that has earth as its element.

Dwarf

An atypically small animal or plant.

Gnome

A pithy saying that expresses a general truth or fundamental principle; an aphorism.

Dwarf

A small creature resembling a human, often having magical powers, appearing in legends and fairy tales.
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Gnome

A brief reflection or maxim; a pithy saying.

Dwarf

A dwarf star.

Gnome

An elemental (spirit or corporeal creature associated with a classical element) associated with earth.

Dwarf

To check the natural growth or development of; stunt
"The oaks were dwarfed from lack of moisture" (John Steinbeck).

Gnome

One of a race of imaginary human-like beings, usually depicted as short and typically bearded males, who inhabit the inner parts of the earth and act as guardians of mines, mineral treasure, etc.; in modern fantasy literature and games, when distinguished from dwarves, gnomes are usually even smaller than dwarves and more focussed on engineering than mining.

Dwarf

To cause to appear small by comparison
"Together these two big men dwarfed the tiny Broadway office" (Saul Bellow).
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Gnome

A person of small stature or misshapen features, or of strange appearance.

Dwarf

To become stunted or grow smaller.

Gnome

The northern pygmy owl, Glaucidium gnoma, a small owl of the western United States.

Dwarf

(mythology) Any member of a race of beings from (especially Scandinavian and other Germanic) folklore, usually depicted as having some sort of supernatural powers and being skilled in crafting and metalworking, often as short with long beards, and sometimes as clashing with elves.

Gnome

A small statue of a dwarf-like character, often bearded, placed in a garden.

Dwarf

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

An upper atmospheric optical phenomenon associated with thunderstorms, a compact blue starter.

Dwarf

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

Gnome

A banker, especially a secretive international one.
The gnomes of Zurich

Dwarf

(star) A star of relatively small size.

Gnome

An imaginary being, supposed by the Rosicrucians to inhabit the inner parts of the earth, and to be the guardian of mines, quarries, etc.

Dwarf

Miniature.
The specimen is a very dwarf form of the plant.
It is possible to grow the plants as dwarf as one desires.

Gnome

A dwarf; a goblin; a person of small stature or misshapen features, or of strange appearance.

Dwarf

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

Gnome

A small owl (Glaucidium gnoma) of the Western United States.

Dwarf

(transitive) To make appear (much) smaller, puny, tiny.
The newly-built skyscraper dwarfs all older buildings in the downtown skyline.

Gnome

A brief reflection or maxim.

Dwarf

(transitive) To make appear insignificant.
Bach dwarfs all other composers.

Gnome

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

Dwarf

(intransitive) To become (much) smaller.

Gnome

A short pithy saying expressing a general truth

Dwarf

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

Dwarf

An animal or plant which is much below the ordinary size of its species or kind.

Dwarf

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.

Dwarf

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

Dwarf

To hinder from growing to the natural size; to make or keep small; to stunt.
Even the most common moral ideas and affections . . . would be stunted and dwarfed, if cut off from a spiritual background.

Dwarf

To become small; to diminish in size.
Strange power of the world that, the moment we enter it, our great conceptions dwarf.

Dwarf

A person who is abnormally small

Dwarf

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

Dwarf

Make appear small by comparison;
This year's debt dwarves that of last year

Dwarf

Check the growth of;
The lack of sunlight dwarfed these pines

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