gnome

gnome
    n 1: a legendary creature resembling a tiny old man; lives in
         the depths of the earth and guards buried treasure [syn:
         {gnome}, {dwarf}]
    2: a short pithy saying expressing a general truth
    

Gnome \Gnome\, n. [F. gnome, prob. fr. Gr. gnw`mon one that
   knows, a guardian, i. e., of the treasures in the inner parts
   of the earth, or fr. ? intelligence, both fr. gnw^nai,
   gignw^skein, to know. See {Know}.]
   1. An imaginary being, supposed by the Rosicrucians to
      inhabit the inner parts of the earth, and to be the
      guardian of mines, quarries, etc.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. A dwarf; a goblin; a person of small stature or misshapen
      features, or of strange appearance.
      [1913 Webster]

   3. (Zool.) A small owl ({Glaucidium gnoma}) of the Western
      United States.
      [1913 Webster]

   4. [Gr. ?.] A brief reflection or maxim. --Peacham. Gnomic
    

GNOME, n.  In North-European mythology, a dwarfish imp inhabiting the
interior parts of the earth and having special custody of mineral
treasures.  Bjorsen, who died in 1765, says gnomes were common enough
in the southern parts of Sweden in his boyhood, and he frequently saw
them scampering on the hills in the evening twilight.  Ludwig
Binkerhoof saw three as recently as 1792, in the Black Forest, and
Sneddeker avers that in 1803 they drove a party of miners out of a
Silesian mine.  Basing our computations upon data supplied by these
statements, we find that the gnomes were probably extinct as early as
1764.
    

GNU Network Object Model Environment
GNOME

   <operating system> (GNOME) A project to build a complete,
   {user-friendly} {desktop} based entirely on {free software}.
   GNOME is part of the {GNU project} and part of the
   {OpenSource} movement.  The desktop will consist of small
   {utilities} and larger {applications} which share a consistent
   {look and feel}.  GNOME uses {GTK+} as the {GUI} {toolkit} for
   applications.

   GNOME is intended to run on any modern and functional
   {Unix}-like system.  The current version runs on {Linux},
   {FreeBSD}, {IRIX} and {Solaris}.

   (http://gnome.org/).

   (1998-10-17)
    

GNOME
       GNU Network Object Model Environment (GNU, GNOME, GUI)
       
    

93 Moby Thesaurus words for "gnome":
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      Titania, Tom Thumb, adage, ana, analects, aphorism, apothegm,
      axiom, banshee, brocard, brownie, byword, catchword, cluricaune,
      collected sayings, current saying, dictate, dictum, distich, dwarf,
      elemental, elemental spirit, elf, epigram, expression, fairy,
      fairy queen, fay, goblin, golden saying, gremlin, hob, homunculus,
      imp, kobold, leprechaun, manikin, maxim, midge, midget, moral, mot,
      motto, oracle, ouphe, peewee, peri, phrase, pip-squeak,
      pithy saying, pixie, pooka, precept, prescript, proverb,
      proverbial saying, proverbs, puca, pwca, pygmy, rule, runt,
      salamander, saw, saying, sentence, sententious expression, shrimp,
      sloka, sprite, stock saying, sutra, sylph, sylphid, teaching, text,
      truism, undine, verse, wart, wisdom, wisdom literature,
      wise saying, witticism, word, words of wisdom