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Look up: Dwarf

  1. dwarf
    person or smb much below the usual size 
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  2. Dwarf
    Shorter than its normal growth. Each family of plants has a height recommendation for dwarfness.
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  3. dwarf
    [adj] - atypically small 2. [n] - a person who is abnormally small
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  4. Dwarf
    Dwarf: Someone with dwarfism, which is now more correctly called short stature. People with dwarfism (short stature) also consider themselves little people, as in the Little People of America.
    Found on http://www.medterms.com/script/main/art.

  5. Dwarf
    Dwarf noun ; plural Dwarfs . [ Middle English dwergh , dwerf , dwarf , Anglo-Saxon dweorg , dweorh ; akin to Dutch dwerg , Middle High German twerc , German zwerg , Icelandic ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/D/133

  6. Dwarf
    Dwarf transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Dwarfed ; present participle & verbal noun Dwarfing .] To hinder from growing to the natural size; to make or keep small; to stunt. Ad...
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  7. Dwarf
    Dwarf intransitive verb To become small; to diminish in size. « Strange power of the world that, the moment we enter it, our great conceptions dwarf Beaconsfield.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/D/133

  8. dwarf
    Pl Dwarfs . [OE. Dwergh, dwerf, dwarf, AS. Dweorg, dweorh; akin to D. Dwerg, MHG. Twerc, G. Zwerg, Icel. Dvergr, Sw. & Dan. Dverg; of unknown origin. ... An animal or plant which is much below the ordinary size of its species or kind; especially, a diminutive human being. ... During the Middle A...
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  9. dwarf
    midget noun a person who is markedly small
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  10. dwarf
    verb check the growth of; `the lack of sunlight dwarfed these pines`
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  11. dwarf
    (dworf) an abnormally undersized person; see also dwarfism. adj., dwarfed, dwar´fish., adj.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/21001

  12. Dwarf
    • (v. t.) To hinder from growing to the natural size; to make or keep small; to stunt. • (v. i.) To become small; to diminish in size. • (n.) An animal or plant which is much below the ordinary size of its species or kind; especially, a diminutive human being.
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  13. dwarf
    an individual who is much below the ordinary stature or size for his ethnic group or species. (For the physiology of dwarf human beings, see ... [2 related articles]
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/d/86

  14. dwarf
    Type: Term Pronunciation: dwōrf Definitions: 1. An abnormally undersized person with disproportion among the body parts. See: dwarfism
    Found on http://www.medilexicon.com/medicaldictio

  15. dwarf
    • a person who is abnormally small
    • a legendary creature resembling a tiny old man; lives in the depths of the earth and guards buried treasure

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  16. Dwarf
    A very small person, short in stature, in which there is no expectation of reaching a size in the range for typical people of corresponding race and sex. Narrower term(s): Leri Weil Syndrome Dyschondrosteosis Broader term(s): Dwarfism
    Found on http://www.pregnology.com/AZ/D/4

  17. Dwarf
    (Germanic mythology) poem Völuspá`` (1895) by Lorenz Frølich In Germanic mythology, a `dwarf` (Old English `dweorg`, Old Norse `dvergr`, Old High German `zwerc` and `gitwerc`) is a being that dwells in mountains and in the earth, and is associated with wisdom, smithing, minin...
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  18. Dwarf
    (Middle-earth) 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 (1937), The Lord of the Rings (1954–55), and the posthumo...
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  19. 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.<ref name=eager>--> The name is a medieval fantasy complement to "ELF" that has no official mean...
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  20. Dwarf
    (Warhammer) In Games Workshop`s Warhammer Fantasy fictional universe, The `Dwarfs` are a race of short, stout humanoids very similar to the dwarves of Middle-Earth and the roleplaying game Dungeons & Dragons. Dwarfs in the Warhammer setting are proud warriors highly driven by honor...
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  21. Dwarf
    (Dungeons & Dragons) In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy roleplaying game, `dwarves` are a humanoid race, one of the primary races available for play as player characters. Variations from the standard dwarf archetype are commonly called subraces, which include hill dwarves, gray ...
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12 February 2012

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/calendar/ On February 12, 1809, Charles Robert Darwin was born at The Mount in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England. Darwin was one of the last of the eclectic scientists who preceded the age of professional specialization. His genius lay in his ability to select, from the facts which he so diligently collected, every relevant point and fit it into his bold and far-reaching theories. He was not the first to advance a theory of evolution; but his massive weight of evidence carried conviction where earlier theorists had failed. He was shy and modest and shrank from controversy, an unfortunate trait in the author of the most controversial book of the century. read more

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