GNOME

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim An elemental (spirit or corporeal creature associated with a classical element) associated with earth.

   “He adopts the Rosycrusian fancy of Gnomes, spirits which inhabit the earth, and who by their power form the ores of metals, and all the wonders met with in the inmost recesses of the globe.”

2. isim One of a race of imaginary human-like beings, usually depicted as short and typically bearded males, who inhabit the inner parts of the earth and act as guardians of mines, mineral treasure, etc.; in modern fantasy literature and games, when distinguished from dwarves, gnomes are usually smaller than dwarves and more focused on engineering than mining.

   “When the trees were disposed of, the gnomes vanished again.”

3. isim A person of a small stature or misshapen features, or of a strange appearance.
4. isim The mountain pygmy owl, Glaucidium gnoma, a small owl of the western United States.
5. isim A small statue of a dwarf-like character, often bearded, placed in a garden.

   “There were ornamental ponds and shrubs clipped into animal shapes, painted concrete gnomes sitting on mushrooms, pink flamingos standing on one leg[.]”

6. isim An upper atmospheric optical phenomenon associated with thunderstorms, a compact blue starter.
7. isim A banker, especially a secretive international one.

   “the gnomes of Zurich”

8. isim A brief reflection or maxim; a pithy saying.

   “Thus, the gnome concerning the precarious nature of, and the potential suffering in, human life sent by the gods uttered by Electra is deconstructed by her choice of paradigm. By using Tantalos as an illustration, the play overturns the apparent meaning of the gnome.”

9. özel isim An open-source, free software computer desktop environment for Unix operating systems.
10. fiil To unintentionally boot a GNOME desktop environment.

    “This new package got my system GNOME'd.”