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.
[T]he elf king and his queen made a royal progress every noon with a splendid retinue of dwarves and sprites, […]
To render (much) smaller, turn into a dwarf (version).
A standardized debugging file format.
In debug mode, a compiled binary will include debugging symbols in the DWARF debugging format.
From Middle English dwergh, dwerw, dwerf, from Old English dweorg, from Proto-West Germanic *dwerg, from Proto-Germanic *dwergaz. Cognate with Scots droich, dwerch (“dwarf, midget”); Old High German t...
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To make appear (much) smaller, puny, tiny; to be much larger than.
The newly-built skyscraper dwarfs all older buildings in the downtown skyline.