Look up: dwarf

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   dwarf
   person or smb much below the usual size 
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   Dwarf
   Shorter than its normal growth. Each family of plants has a height recommendation for dwarfness.
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   dwarf
   [adj] - atypically small 2. [n] - a person who is abnormally small
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   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.
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   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 dvergr , Swedish & Danish dverg ; of unknown origin.] An animal or plant which is much below the ordinary size of its species or kind; es ...
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   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. Addison. « Even the most common moral ideas and affections . . . would be stunted and dwarfed , if cut off from a spiritual backgroun ...
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   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.
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   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 Ages dwarfs as well as fools shared the favor of cour ...
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   dwarf
   midget noun a person who is markedly small
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    dwarf
    verb check the growth of; `the lack of sunlight dwarfed these pines`
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    Dwarf
    A `dwarf` is a short, stocky humanoid creature in Norse mythology as well as other Germanic mythologies, fairy tales, fantasy fiction and role-playing games. The plural form `dwarfs` has been traced to the 17th century. The alternative plural `dwarves` has been recorded in the early 18th century, but was not generally accepted until used by philologist J. R. R. Tolkien in his fantasy novel `The Hobbit`. Neither spelling represents the regular p...
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    DWARF
    `DWARF` is a widely used, standardized debugging data format. DWARF was originally designed along with ELF, although it is independent of object file formats. The name is a pun on `ELF` that has no official meaning but `may be an acronym for 'Debug With Attributed Record Format'`.
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    dwarf
    (dworf) an abnormally undersized person; see also dwarfism. adj., dwarfed, dwar´fish., adj.
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    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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    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]
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    dwarf
    An abnormally undersized person with disproportion among the bodily parts. See: dwarfism [A.S. dweorh]
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    dwarf
    
    1. a person who is abnormally small
    2. a legendary creature resembling a tiny old man; lives in the depths of the earth and guards buried treasure
    
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    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
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