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Definition: Gnome |
GnomeNoun1. A legendary creature resembling a tiny old man; lives in the depths of the earth and guards buried treasure. 2. A short pithy saying expressing a general truth. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "gnome" was first used: 1712. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Satire | 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. Source: Devil's Dictionary. |
Computing | GNOME GNU Network Object Model Environment. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A gnome is a mythical creature. In certain traditions and certain kinds of magickal practice, gnomes are elemental spirits of the element of earth. In other traditions, they are simply small, mischievous sprites or goblins.
Gnomes are often represented in small ornamental statues called garden gnomes, a German tradition. These are the target of a lot of pranks: people have been known to "return to the wild" these garden gnomes, most notably France's "Front de Liberation des Nains de Jardins" (Garden Gnome Liberation Front). Some kidnapped garden gnomes have been sent on trips around the world, being passed from person to person and photographed at different famous landmarks, with the photos being returned to the owner.
- See also : tomte
The GNOME desktop environment is a graphical user interface for computers running Unix-like operating systems, specially Linux. Gnome for Debian Linux is called Gnobian.
One South Park episode features an organization of gnomes who gather underpants; see Underpants Gnomes.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Gnome."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
\r \r
\r\r \r GNOME is an easy to use Graphical User Interface for UNIX-like operating systems. It is the official desktop of the GNU Project.\r \rOrigin
\r \r The GNOME (GNU Network Object Model Environment) project was started in August 1997 by Miguel de Icaza as an attempt to provide a Free desktop for the GNU/Linux operating system. At the time, the only serious alternative for the non-technical user was KDE.\r However, there were a number of problems associated with KDE: it was based on Trolltech's Qt toolkit, which had a number of licensing issues, and its language of implementation was C++ (the licensing issues with Qt have since been substantially resolved). \r \r\r\r \r The GNOME framework is written in C, rather than C++, to avoid the problems associated with using different C++ compilers, and to ease the task of using other languages to write GNOME applications. Instead of Qt, the GTK toolkit was chosen as the basis for future GNOME development. This had a number of advantages: it was written in C, its license was the Lesser General Public License, and it was already used by The Gimp, a major Free software project.
\r GNOME screenshot showing: RhythmBox (music), gthumb (image manager), Abiword and the Nautilus file manager viewing the available network shares. (Larger image)\r \r
Organisation
\r \r GNOME project development, like most Free software projects, is loosely organised -- preferring to rely on the dedication of those working on it. Most discussion regarding GNOME occurs on a variety of open mailing lists (see GNOME website). The GNOME foundation was set up in August 2000 to deal with administration tasks, press interest and companies interested in GNOME development or distribution.\r \r \rGNOME platforms
Although originally a GNU/Linux desktop, GNOME now runs on most Unix-like systems (*BSD variants, AIX, IRIX, HP-UX), and in particular it has been adopted by Sun Microsystems as the standard desktop for its Solaris platform, replacing the ageing CDE. There is also a port of GNOME to Cygwin, allowing it to run on Microsoft Windows
Versions
\r \r\r \r
- GNOME development announced - August 1997\r
- GNOME 1.0 - March 1999\r
- "October GNOME" 1.0.55 - October 1999\r
- "Bongo" GNOME - May 2000\r
- GNOME 1.4 - ??\r
- GNOME 2.0 (major upgrade based on GTK 2.0) - June 2002\r
- GNOME 2.2 - February 2003\r
- GNOME 2.4 - September 2003\r
Architecture
\r \r Several vital pieces of technology make up the advanced infrastructure of GNOME:\r \r\r \r
- GTK+ - Widget toolkit.\r
- Pango - Layout and rendering of internationalized text.\r
- ATK - Accessibility toolkit.\r
- Orbit - a CORBA ORB for software components.\r
- Bonobo - a compound document technology.\r
- GNOME VFS - a virtual File system.\r
- GConf - for storing application settings\r
- Gstreamer - The multimedia framework for Gnome applications.\r
Major native applications
\r \r\r
- Abiword - Word processor.\r
- Anjuta - Software Integrated Development Environment (IDE).\r
- Dia - Structured drawing.\r
- Gabber - Instant messaging (and Gaim, although not strictly a GNOME project).\r
- Galeon - Web browser for GNOME (based on Mozilla).\r
- Gedit - Text editor. \r
- The Gimp - Advanced image editor.\r
- Gnucash - personal/small business accounting.\r
- Gnumeric - Spreadsheet.\r
- Nautilus - File manager.\r
- Pan - Usenet newsreader.\r
- Sodipodi - vector drawing.\r
- Ximian Evolution - Contacts/Time management and e-mail. \r
See also
\r\r
- The Linux Documentation Project\r
- Debian\r
- Gnoppix, LiveCD with Gnome for Debian (Gnobian).\r
- Red Hat\r
- Ximian\r
External links
\r \r
- GNOME's official homepage\r
- The GNOME Foundation site\r
- http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gdp/ Gnome Documentation Project\r
- A GNOME news site and Wiki about Gnome.\r
- The Story of the GNOME project written by Miguel de Icaza\r
- All GNU:Gnome for Debian.\r
- Gnome2-Live a bootable LiveCD from Hispalinux.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "GNOME."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
GNOME | English | GNU Network Object Model Environment | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonym: GnomeSynonym: dwarf (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Demon | Vampire, ghoul; afreet, barghest, Loki; ogre, ogress; gnome, gin, jinn, imp, deev, lamia; bogie, bogeyman, bogle; nis, kobold, flibbertigibbet, fairy, brownie, pixy, elf, dwarf, urchin; Puck, Robin Goodfellow; leprechaun, Cluricaune, troll, dwerger, sprite, ouphe, bad fairy, nix, nixie, pigwidgeon, will-o'-the wisp. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Gnome |
| English words defined with "gnome": Pygmy owl. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "gnome": Gnome Computers, GNU Network Object Model Environment ♦ Number Nip. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "gnome": Gnomon. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Gnome" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (brownie, gnome, goblin), German (gnomes). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Stupid gnome! (Undergrads; writing credit: Kid Vegas) You're a furry little gnome and we feed you too much (The Golden Girls; writing credit: Philip Broadley; Gabriel Castro) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Desastre do Monoplano Gnome na Amadora (1913) A Gnome Named Gnorm (1992) David the Gnome (1985) | |
Song Titles | Gnome, The (performing artist: Pink Floyd) | |
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| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Music |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Gnome. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Hallway with liquor cabinet and living room decorated with mistletoe ball and Christmas gnome by fireplace. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Garden gnome" by Jared Swafford Commentary: "Garden gnome." | "Gnome Forest" by Erika Thorpe Commentary: "Gnomes live here.......really!." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Author | Quotation |
Emily Dickinson | Drab Habitation of Whom? Tabernacle or Tomb -- or Dome of Worm -- or Porch of Gnome -- or some Elf's Catacomb? |
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| "Gnome" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 89.47% of the time. "Gnome" is used about 57 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 89.47% | 51 | 47,619 |
| Noun (proper) | 10.53% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Total | 100.00% | 57 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "gnome": garden gnome ♦ gnome Computers. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "gnome": gnome-dotted, gnome-hat, gnome-like, gnome-snaffling. | |
Ending with "gnome": garden-gnome. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
gnome | 2,130 | gnome kde vs | 9 |
garden gnome | 984 | gnome lawn picture | 9 |
david the gnome | 75 | gnome icon | 9 |
lawn gnome | 74 | gnome history | 9 |
tom clark gnome | 60 | gnome wallpaper | 8 |
gnome picture | 57 | amelie gnome | 8 |
gnome theme | 44 | fairy gnome | 8 |
yard gnome | 23 | gnome statue | 8 |
gnome underpants | 19 | garden gnome plastic | 7 |
door gnome | 19 | cygwin gnome | 7 |
gnome linux | 18 | art gnome | 7 |
the gnome mobile | 17 | home gnome | 7 |
gnome pic | 15 | gnome swiss | 7 |
audio gnome | 15 | gnome house | 7 |
gnome name | 13 | gnome underwear | 7 |
gnome life secret | 10 | ever quest gnome | 6 |
gnome project | 10 | gnome tattoo | 6 |
garden gnome picture | 10 | gnome poortvliet rien | 6 |
game gnome | 9 | evil gnome | 6 |
gnome kde | 9 | gnome desktop | 6 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "gnome"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | aardmannetjie (brownie, goblin), aardgees (brownie, goblin). (various references) | |
Albanian | gnom, xhuxh (dwarf, lilliputian, manikin, midget, pigmy, pygmy, shorty). (various references) | |
Arabic | مثل (act, adage, aphorism, appear, as, be a symbol for, be typical of, byword, case, depict, describe, example, exemplify, illustrate, illustration, instance, like, like this, maxim, perform, play, play act, portray, proverb, represent, saying, sculpt, show, stand before, stand for, such, such as, symbolize, typify), قول مأثور (adage, aphorism, byword, maxim, proverb, saw, saying), قزم (bantam, dwarf, elf, homunculus, lilliputian, manikin, midget, pigmy, pygmy, runt), عفريت (demon, evil genius, evil spirit, genius, goblin, imp, pixy, puck, rascal, rogue, tinker). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | сентенция (dictum, saw, sentence), гнома, гном, опасен международен финансист, афоризъм (aphorism, dictum), джудже (dwarf, elf, manikin, midget, pygmy). (various references) | |
Czech | trpaslík (dwarf, midget, pigmy, pygmy), skřítek (elf, elves, Goblin, gremlin, hobgoblin, imp, manikin, pixie, pixy, pygmy, sprite). (various references) | |
Dutch | gnoom (brownie, goblin), aardmannetje (brownie, goblin, imp). (various references) | |
Esperanto | gnomo (brownie, goblin). (various references) | |
Farsi | کوتوله (Dwarf, Grub, Runt, Stub), گورزاد, جنی زیرزمینی , دیو (Bogey, Goblin, Spook). (various references) | |
Finnish | menninkäinen (earth sprite), haltija (fairy, genius, goblin, guardian spirit, holder, occupant, owner, possessor). (various references) | |
French | gnome. (various references) | |
Frisian | ierdmantsje (brownie, goblin). (various references) | |
German | gnom (brownie, goblin, leprechaun). (various references) | |
Greek | καλικάντζαροσ (gobblin, hob), νάνοσ (dwarf, elf, lilliputian, manikin, midget, minim, pigmy, pygmy, runt, troll), φάντασμα (apparition, bogey, bogy, genie, ghost, hobgoblin, phantasm, phantom, pixy, specter, spook, sprite, wraith). (various references) | |
Hebrew | שדון (elf, imp, leprechaun, sprite). (various references) | |
Hungarian | törpe (dwarf, dwarfish, elf, elfin, lilliput, lilliputian, manikin, midget, modicum, pigmy, pint-sized, pygmean, pygmy, scrogged, shorty, urchin), gnóm. (various references) | |
Indonesian | orang kerdil. (various references) | |
Italian | gnomo (dwarf, elf, Goblin). (various references) | |
Manx | trollag (dwarf, elf, pixie, puck, sprite, troll). (various references) | |
Norwegian | dverg (dwarf). (various references) | |
Papiamen | kabouter (brownie, goblin). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | omegnay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | gnomo (dwarf, elf, goblin, hop-o'-my-thumb, puck), máxima (adage, dictum, maxim, precept, proverb), aforismo (aphorism, maxim). (various references) | |
Romanian | gnom (elf, fairy, hobgoblin, sprite), pitic (dwarf, dwarfish, hop-o'-my-thumb, manikin, midget, minikin, peewee, shrimp), maximã (dictum, Maxim, saw, saying, sentence), aforism (aphorism, apophthegm, dictum, wise saw). (various references) | |
Russian | гном (dwarf, goblin, leprechaun). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | gnoma, gnom, patuljak (dwarf, elf, elves, lilliputian, midget). (various references) | |
Spanish | gnomo (troll). (various references) | |
Swedish | gnom, levnadsregel, jordande (interment), dvärg (dwarf, manikin, midget, pigmy, pygmy). (various references) | |
Thai | สัตว์หรือมนุษย์แคระในนิทาน, คำสอน. (various references) | |
Turkish | vecize (aphorism, apophthegm, apothegm, dicta, dictum, epigram, Maxim, motto, posy, sentence), hikmet (mystery, profoundness, profundity, reason, the divine wisdom, wisdom), cin (clever person, demon, elf, Geneva, genie, gin, Goblin, gremlin, hob, hobgoblin, Hollands, jinnee, puck, sprite, white satin), cüce (dwarf, elf, ground-, homunculus, hop-o'-my-thumb, lilliputian, manikin, midget, nano-, pigmy, pygmean, pygmy, runt, scrub, scrubby, shrimp, tom thumb), banker (bank clerk, bank official, banker), atasözü (adage, byword, proverb, Rede, saw, saying), özdeyiş (adage, aphorism, apophthegm, apothegm, byword, dicta, dictum, epigraph, morals, saying, sentence). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | сентенція (epigram, word), гнома, гном (dwarf, leprechaun, pygmy), афоризм (aphorism, dictum, saw). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "gnome": gnomelike, gnomes. (additional references) | |
Words containing "gnome": agnomen, agnomens, cognomen, cognomens. (additional references) | |
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"Gnome" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: anome, ganome, genoma, geome, ghom, ghome, gno, gnode, gnoe, gnom, gnoma, gnomb, gnomed, gnomen, gnomr, gnore, gnum, gome, Gomel, gomme, gonbee, gonne, gonome, grome, Ngami, ngema, Ngom, Ngoma, ngonde, Ngumu, noem, nomex, Znojmo. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words ending with "ome": Brome, Mome, tome. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: genom. | |
| Words within the letters "e-g-m-n-o" | |
-1 letter: gone, meno, nome, omen. | |
-2 letters: ego, eng, eon, gem, gen, meg, men, mog, mon, nog, nom, one. | |
-3 letters: em, en, go, me, mo, ne, no, oe, om, on. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-g-m-n-o" | |
+1 letter: genome, genoms, gnomes, monger, mongoe, morgen. | |
+2 letters: agnomen, bogymen, demoing, emoting, frogmen, genomes, genomic, goodmen, hogmane, magneto, mangoes, marengo, megaton, mendigo, meouing, meowing, mitogen, mongers, mongoes, mongrel, montage, morgens, nongame, omening, tongmen, zymogen. | |
+3 letters: agnomens, amidogen, amylogen, becoming, bogeyman, bogeymen, boogymen, cameoing, cognomen, comanage, comingle, cymogene, demoting, dragomen, egomania, embowing, endogamy, gambeson, gammoned, gammoner, gemstone, geomancy, gownsmen, hegemony, hogmanes, hogmenay, homering, homogeny, lodgment, longsome, longtime, magneton, magnetos, mangonel, mangrove, megatons, mendigos, menology, mignonne, mimeoing, mitogens, modeling, moneybag, mongeese, mongered, mongoose, mongrels, monogeny, monogerm, montaged, montages, moseying, mungoose, myogenic, nonimage, removing, renogram, smidgeon, venogram, venoming, xenogamy, zymogene, zymogens. | |
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