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dwarfs

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for dwarfs.

Editorial note

Also, the billions that governments are spending on climate change policy and research easily dwarfs money on the other side.

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Quick take

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

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of dwarfs gathered in one view.

noun

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

verb

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

verb

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

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for dwarfs.

noun

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

verb

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

verb

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

verb

(transitive) To make appear (much) smaller, puny, tiny; to be much larger than.

Example sentences

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Also, the billions that governments are spending on climate change policy and research easily dwarfs money on the other side.

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There are of course many libraries on Hackage but the JVM ecosystem dwarfs most others.

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The costs of the server were tiny and getting a couple hundred dollars a month from V1 sales dwarfs the server cost.

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And yes, we do have a huge death rate from it, which dwarfs things like drug or terrorism-related deaths.

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Don't forget the use of gold for jewelry, which dwarfs the other uses.

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No love for Pluto:( There will be love for the dwarfs very soon!

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As such, for real-world performance, writing code that the engine understands how to optimize entirely dwarfs trivia like how Babel transpiled your default parameters.

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Population growth utterly dwarfs the impact of any feasible consumption reduction approaches.

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You are correct regarding the low tps and the incompatibility with stock market transactions, but the rest of wall street dwarfs the stock market in market capitalization.

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Unless the people are humans or elfs (hence orcs) or dwarfs or hobbits - then they aren't influenced or changed at all by the power of the ring.

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Disney doesn't have first dibs on the idea of an Evil Queen with a magical talking mirror, seven dwarfs who live in a little house and so on.

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The effort that's been poured into the JVM -- and even JVM concurrency alone -- dwarfs the effort put into Erlang at least by an order of magnitude.

Quote examples

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By US copyright laws existing up until 1978[1], "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" should have entered into the public domain sometime around 1993.

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Another theory is that it could be not dust but bigger chunks of stuff, like planets or brown dwarfs, so called "MaCHOs" (Massive Compact Halo Objects).

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I'm not really sure this applies in the unicorn case, though, since the amount of money that they're raising in the "private IPOs" they do dwarfs the reporting costs of being a public company.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use dwarfs in a sentence?

Also, the billions that governments are spending on climate change policy and research easily dwarfs money on the other side.

What does dwarfs mean?

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

What part of speech is dwarfs?

dwarfs is commonly used as noun, verb.