Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word DWARF

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Definitions of DWARF

1. An animal, plant or other thing much smaller than the usual of its sort.
2. To hinder from growing to the natural size; to make or keep small; to stunt.
3. (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.
4. (now, sometimesoffensive) 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.
5. (star) A dwarf star.
6. (especially inbotany) Miniature.
7. (transitive) To render (much) smaller, turn into a dwarf (version).
8. (transitive) To make appear insignificant.
9. (intransitive) To become (much) smaller.
10. (file format) A standardized debugging file format.
11. (transitive) To make appear (much) smaller, puny, tiny; to be much larger than.

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Examples of Using DWARF in a Sentence

• Anoa, also known as dwarf buffalo and sapiutan, are two species of the genus Bubalus, placed within the subgenus Anoa and endemic to the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia: the mountain anoa (Bubalus quarlesi) and the lowland anoa (Bubalus depressicornis).
• The Cheirogaleidae are the family of strepsirrhine primates containing the various dwarf and mouse lemurs.
• At the time of discovery, Pluto was considered a planet, but was reclassified as a dwarf planet in 2006.
• Cranberries are a group of evergreen dwarf shrubs or trailing vines in the subgenus Oxycoccus of the genus Vaccinium.
• Gaia Enceladus (or Enceladus Galaxy), the remains of a dwarf galaxy that merged with the Milky Way that was discovered by the Gaia space telescope.
• Stars on this band are known as main-sequence stars or dwarf stars, and positions of stars on and off the band are believed to indicate their physical properties, as well as their progress through several types of star life-cycles.
• ο Ceti is a binary stellar system, consisting of a variable red giant (Mira A) along with a white dwarf companion (Mira B).
• This type is usually created in a close binary star system consisting of a white dwarf and either a main sequence, subgiant, or red giant star.
• It results from the supernova explosion of a massive star—combined with gravitational collapse—that compresses the core past white dwarf star density to that of atomic nuclei.
• A planet is a large, rounded astronomical body that is generally required to be in orbit around a star, stellar remnant, or brown dwarf, and is not one itself.
• Other objects contained within the boundaries of the constellation include Lacaille 9352, one of the brightest red dwarf stars in the night sky (though still too faint to see with the naked eye); and PKS 2155-304, a BL Lacertae object that is one of the optically brightest blazars in the sky.
• A supernova occurs during the last evolutionary stages of a massive star, or when a white dwarf is triggered into runaway nuclear fusion.
• Sirius is a binary star consisting of a main-sequence star of spectral type A0 or A1, termed Sirius A, and a faint white dwarf companion of spectral type DA2, termed Sirius B.
• Additionally, astronomers have found 6 white dwarfs (stars that have exhausted all fusible hydrogen), 21 brown dwarfs, as well as 1 sub-brown dwarf, WISE 0855−0714 (possibly a rogue planet).
• SN 1987A was a type II supernova in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf satellite galaxy of the Milky Way.
• A white dwarf is very dense: its mass is comparable to the Sun's, while its volume is comparable to Earth's.
• From top left, clockwise: Hurricane Katrina kills 1,836 people throughout the southern United States; the funeral of Pope John Paul II is held in Vatican City; "Me at the zoo" is the first video ever to be uploaded to YouTube; Eris and its satellite Dysnomia are discovered by a Palomar Observatory-based team, becoming the tenth planet to be discovered and breaking ground for the discovery of new dwarf planets such as Haumea and Makemake; Saddam Hussein sits before an Iraqi judge at a courthouse in Baghdad; the shrine and resting place for Rafic Hariri; the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (designed to explore Mars) is launched from Cape Canaveral; the Live 8 concert in the Tiergarten, Berlin.
• It contains a stellar bar that is geometrically off-center, suggesting that it was once a barred dwarf spiral galaxy before its spiral arms were disrupted, likely by tidal interactions from the nearby Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) and the Milky Way's gravity.

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