Meaning of Dwarf | Babel Free

Definitions

1. 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.
2. A standardized debugging file format.
3. 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.
   offensive, sometimes
4. An animal, plant or other thing much smaller than the usual of its sort.
5. A dwarf star.

Equivalents

Examples

“[T]he elf king and his queen made a royal progress every noon with a splendid retinue of dwarves and sprites, […]”

“Nidavellir, which is sometimes called Svartalfheim, where the dwarfs (who are also known as dark elves) live beneath the mountains and build their remarkable creations.”

“dwarf tree”

“dwarf honeysuckle”

“But none of those brown dwarfs were speeding along on a trajectory that would carry them out of the galaxy like “runaway” hypervelocity stars observed by astronomers in the last two decades.”

“In debug mode, a compiled binary will include debugging symbols in the DWARF debugging format.”

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