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  • 41gnome — [18] Gnome comes via French from Latin gnomus, a word coined by the 16thcentury Swiss physician Paracelsus for a type of being that lives in the earth, in the same way that fish live in water. It seems to have been a pure invention on his part,… …

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  • 42gnome — 1. n. 1 a a dwarfish legendary creature supposed to guard the earth s treasures underground; a goblin. b a figure of a gnome, esp. as a garden ornament. 2 (esp. in pl.) colloq. a person with sinister influence, esp. financial (gnomes of Zurich).… …

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  • 43gnome — I. noun Etymology: Greek gnōmē, from gignōskein to know more at know Date: 1577 maxim, aphorism II. noun Etymology: French, from New Latin gnomus Date: 1661 1. an ageless and often deformed dwarf of folklore who lives in the earth …

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  • 44GNOME — noun /ɡəˈnəʊm,ɡəˈnoʊm,nəʊm,noʊm/ an open source, free software computer desktop environment for Unix operating systems. (GNOME is an acronym for GNU Network Object Model Environment .) …

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  • 45gnome — noun Gnome is used after these nouns: ↑garden …

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  • 46GNOME — GNU Network Object Model Environment (LINUX Desktop, vergl. KDE, http://www.gnome.org/) …

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  • 47gnome — ġnò·me, gnò·me s.f.inv. TS lett. spec. nella letteratura greca, massima, sentenza morale {{line}} {{/line}} DATA: av. 1643. ETIMO: dal gr. gnōmē …

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  • 48Gnome — Gno|me die; , n <über lat. gnome aus gleichbed. gr. gno̅mē, dies zu gigno̅skein »erkennen, kennen«> lehrhafter [Sinn , Denk]spruch in Versform od. in Prosa; ↑Sentenz (1 b) …

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  • 49GNOME — GNU Network Object Model Environment (LINUX Desktop, vergl. KDE, http://www.gnome.org/) …

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  • 50gnome — Anyone with horrid spelling who hangs out in forums or chat rooms and just says mindless garbage like a spammer but the gnome only posts one message with really bad spelling. Gnomes would say this in a video games forum. Duus anywun no the… …

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