Dorf vs. Dwarf — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Dorf and Dwarf
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Dorf
A village in a Germanic-speaking area.
Dwarf
(in folklore or fantasy literature) a member of a mythical race of short, stocky humanlike creatures who are generally skilled in mining and metalworking.
Dorf
Term of disparagement; freak.
Dwarf
A star of relatively small size and low luminosity, including the majority of main sequence stars.
Dorf
Humorous, by extension; A dwarf.
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Dwarf
Cause to seem small or insignificant in comparison
The buildings surround and dwarf All Saints church
Dwarf
A person with a usually genetic disorder resulting in atypically short stature and often disproportionate limbs.
Dwarf
An atypically small animal or plant.
Dwarf
A small creature resembling a human, often having magical powers, appearing in legends and fairy tales.
Dwarf
A dwarf star.
Dwarf
To check the natural growth or development of; stunt
"The oaks were dwarfed from lack of moisture" (John Steinbeck).
Dwarf
To cause to appear small by comparison
"Together these two big men dwarfed the tiny Broadway office" (Saul Bellow).
Dwarf
To become stunted or grow smaller.
Dwarf
(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.
Dwarf
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.
Dwarf
An animal, plant or other thing much smaller than the usual of its sort.
Dwarf tree
Dwarf honeysuckle
Dwarf
(star) A star of relatively small size.
Dwarf
Miniature.
The specimen is a very dwarf form of the plant.
It is possible to grow the plants as dwarf as one desires.
Dwarf
(transitive) To render (much) smaller, turn into a dwarf (version).
Dwarf
(transitive) To make appear (much) smaller, puny, tiny.
The newly-built skyscraper dwarfs all older buildings in the downtown skyline.
Dwarf
(transitive) To make appear insignificant.
Bach dwarfs all other composers.
Dwarf
(intransitive) To become (much) smaller.
Dwarf
To hinder from growing to the natural size; to make or keep small; to stunt.
Dwarf
An animal or plant which is much below the ordinary size of its species or kind.
Dwarf
A diminutive human being, small in stature due to a pathological condition which causes a distortion of the proportions of body parts to each other, such as the limbs, torso, and head. A person of unusually small height who has normal body proportions is usually called a midget.
Dwarf
A small, usually misshapen person, typically a man, who may have magical powers; mythical dwarves were often depicted as living underground in caves.
Dwarf
To hinder from growing to the natural size; to make or keep small; to stunt.
Even the most common moral ideas and affections . . . would be stunted and dwarfed, if cut off from a spiritual background.
Dwarf
To become small; to diminish in size.
Strange power of the world that, the moment we enter it, our great conceptions dwarf.
Dwarf
A person who is abnormally small
Dwarf
A legendary creature resembling a tiny old man; lives in the depths of the earth and guards buried treasure
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