(n.) An imaginary being, supposed by the Rosicrucians to inhabit the inner parts of the earth, and to be the guardian of mines, quarries, etc.
(n.) A dwarf; a goblin; a person of small stature or misshapen features, or of strange appearance.
(n.) A small owl (Glaucidium gnoma) of the Western United States.
Example Sentences:
(1) Referee: Peter Bankes (Merseyside) This gnome, who lives in the shrubbery of Guardian gardening expert Jane Perrone, will be rooting for Luton Town this afternoon.
(2) I had cooked, sometimes, with difficulty, yet woke one day to find I had somehow assembled a bizarre array of crockery on my floor, like a gnomes' tea party but with much scurf; I daily grew too fatigued to lift things and spent increasing hours abed.
(3) But six letters – as immortalised in David Bowie’s best-forgotten 1960s hit The Laughing Gnome – was also common, with those really, really amused expressing ‘hahaha’ and ‘hehehe’.
(4) For this tale of a young waitress with an insouciant approach to haircuts, garden gnomes, and life, Craig Lucas supplies the book, Daniel Messé and Nathan Tyse the music and lyrics.
(5) It was preceded by the novelty single The Laughing Gnome , a flop at the time but a top 10 hit when reissued in 1973.
(6) But a spokeswoman for the RHS said the gnomes were safe and well-guarded in their offices.
(7) Poundland sold more than 6m boxes of Maltesers, 2m umbrellas, more than 2.5m CDs and 500,000 garden gnomes during the past year.
(8) A semisterile F1 male mouse from an X-ray experiment produced about 25 percent lethal gnome young in outcrosses.
(9) Wilf, possibly the first garden gnome in 100 years to legitimately show his face at Chelsea, looked as if he wanted to hide in a massive display of delphiniums, but Robinson was having none of it, thrusting him into the bright light and sweet smells of the main marquee.
(10) The gnomes of the ratings agencies have had a dire crisis.
(11) By scanning EM (SEM), gnome's hat-shaped organisms with beaded borders correspond to the crescent-shaped cysts noted by TEM.
(12) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Bowie during the Laughing Gnome period in 1968.
(13) Elton John has reportedly garnished his with glitter and given him sunglasses, but those of Dolly Parton, Dames Maggie Smith and Judi Dench, Rob Brydon and others will not be seen until the royal family and the garden grandees who have so long opposed the gnomes' introduction have had a look on Monday.
(14) Meanwhile financial speculators, back then called the Gnomes of Zurich, were making large profits at Britain’s expense.
(15) With almost no bylines in the magazine besides the likes of Lord Gnome, Glenda Slagg, Dr B Ching, Remote Controller and Lunchtime O'Boulez, Hislop seems content to be its public face, as was shown when he led the charge in fighting Andrew Marr's injunction in April – a point of principle which cost Private Eye six-figure legal bills and produced only a few paragraphs of copy.
(16) The typical stigmata are a "gnome" facies with a saddle nose, broad mouth, large and low-set ears, hirsutism, cutis laxa with atrophy of adipose tissue, dwarfism, extreme wasting, and dysphagia requiring parenteral feeding.
(17) Next week, the RHS will unveil over 100 gnomes, painted for charity by celebrities.
(18) And rude-sounding phrases abounded: "There'll be finger bogling and massed goat pandering at the Royal Nobblers Institute all next week"; "An exhibition of gnome clenching in the corset department of Sparkslaw and Towser".
(19) If it is red, white and blue it is flying off the shelves, according to several retailers, with sales of 30,000 official jubilee tea towels, 3,000 B&Q royal garden gnomes and 1,500 miles of Tesco bunting.
(20) On Friday, neither the Garden Gnome Liberation Front , nor the supposedly less militant Garden Gnome Emancipation Movement – which take gnomes from gardens to "free them" from "enslavement" in flower beds, lawns, gardens and centres – could be contacted.
Pixie
Definition:
(n.) An old English name for a fairy; an elf.
(n.) A low creeping evergreen plant (Pyxidanthera barbulata), with mosslike leaves and little white blossoms, found in New Jersey and southward, where it flowers in earliest spring.
Example Sentences:
(1) I resented my own parents on far flimsier grounds (unwillingness to buy me purple suede pixie boots, for instance).
(2) Their European tour , which finishes in London on Monday, is sold out and there seems to be a general consensus that Pixies, who suddenly find themselves with everything to prove, are playing ferociously.
(3) • Black Francis speaks of Kim Deal's departure from the Pixies
(4) We started seriously talking about recording new music about four years ago,” Pixies drummer David Lovering explained.
(5) Aside from asking Essex to "put a ring on it", she'll debut that new pixie cut in the UK.
(6) The rights of women and of minority populations and vulnerable and low-income people are under threat and we must do everything we can to protect these rights and fight for true equality.” Musician Pixie Geldof, writer Stella Duffy, activist Jack Monroe and US rock musician Thurston Moore are supporting the London march, while in the US organisers claim that many of the musicians who have refused to play at Trump’s inauguration will join them.
(7) Scott Morrison says Labor 'selling a unicorn' with negative gearing savings Read more “I can sell them a fantasy or whatever you want to call it, pixie horses, whatever your preferred analogy is, but I’m not going to spin the public a line that there is some simple answer to getting expenditure down,” Morrison told 3AW on Friday.
(8) Whatever they’ve been talking about in public – tax cuts, steel workers’ jobs, unicorns, pixie horses , negative gearing, etc – behind the scenes politicians from all parties have been utterly preoccupied for months with this proposed change.
(9) The inhibition by PIXI of factor XIa-catalyzed activation of factor IX and its capacity to prevent factor XIa inactivation by alpha 1-protease inhibitor, combined with the specificity of PIXI for factor XIa among serine proteases found in blood, suggest a role for PIXI in the regulation of intrinsic coagulation.
(10) He has engineered more than 2,000 records – by bands you mostly won’t have heard of, although a few of them you will, including PJ Harvey, Joanna Newsom, Pixies, Fugazi and that little three-piece out of Seattle, Nirvana .
(11) But unlike, say, Duran Duran or the Pixies, they've never really been away, so there's no opportunity to key into the nostalgia circuit.
(12) pIXY 321 may offer significant clinical advantages over the individual cytokines.
(13) Pixies made me forget I was dressed in a bin-liner I wasn't expecting too much from the Pixies before their second from top slot on the Other stage .
(14) Clockwise from top left: Grimshaw with Kelly Osborne; Sara Cox and Annie Mac at the Brit awards; Queens of Noize DJ Tabitha Denholm; dressed as Lily Allen, off to Mark Ronson’s birthday party; at Amy Winehouse’s funeral; with Henry Holland; Pixie Geldof and Alexa Chung at the NME awards afterparty; predecessor Chris Moyles.
(15) Look, Pixie Geldof has found a big conker made of twigs, and it might have something to do with River Island, and she looks quite pleased .
(16) The full title of this event is the artistic gymnastics, and for 2012 the event seems to want to place the emphasis on art; thus the competitors were played in with a curious acoustic set from singer Pixie Lott, standing in the middle of the floor mat, surrounded by feline acrobats in latex body stockings.
(17) The festival in question, Summer in the City, has officially announced some of its July performers: Pixies and Royal Blood on 10 July, and James with Starsailor on 11 July.
(18) Double dissolution is a 'live option' as Morrison rules out 'pixie horse' tax cuts Read more The Coalition government kept the option of calling a double-dissolution election up its sleeve, he said, and could pull the trigger if the Senate “becomes inoperable”.
(19) Widely read, with a quick wit and sharp intelligence, she was also a devoted partner and mother to her and Geldof's extravagantly-named daughters, Fifi Trixibelle, Peaches and Pixie.
(20) "Today, the thrill and pixie dust of Barack Obama's presidency is gone."