dwarf
侏儒,矮人,矮子,矮小的人
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plural dwarves [dwawrvz], /dwɔrvz/, dwarfs.
- : a person of abnormally small stature owing to a pathological condition, especially a person with congenital hypothyroidism or some other disease that produces disproportion or deformation of features and limbs.
- : an animal or plant much smaller than the average of its kind or species.
- : a being in the form of a small, often misshapen and ugly, man, usually having magic powers.
- : Astronomy. dwarf star.
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- : of unusually small stature or size; diminutive.
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That’s a heck of a number, considering that Tesla posted a loss of $862 million in 2019, and generated a modest $799 million in free cash flow—a figure dwarfed 462 to 1 by its market cap.
It happened on July 14, 2015, when NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft flew behind dwarf planet Pluto on its way out of the solar system, and there are no plans for it to happen ever again.
A different type, red dwarfs, outnumber all other stars put together.
One international group of scientists is already proposing a mission called Calathus that would collect a sample from Ceres’s Occator crater to help assess how habitable the dwarf planet really is.
Whether or not competitive eaters ever reach that limit, the scale of improvement “completely dwarfs other athletic achievements,” Smoliga says.
Another group of mistletoes, dwarf mistletoes, does things a bit differently.
“Dwarf mistletoe is freaky, freaky, freaky stuff,” says David Watson, an ecologist at Charles Sturt University in Australia.
And he was followed by each one of them until the seventh dwarf looked at his bed and saw Little Snow White lying there asleep.
The city is incredibly violent for its size, on par with metropolises that dwarf the town.
If they succeed, their dismantling of the ACA will dwarf everything else that has happened in our era.
The third night, it being Christmas, this same dwarf returned to the chamber where I slept.