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"GNOMES" is a plural of: gnome. |
Date "GNOMES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1808. (references) |
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Finance | Wall Street slang for 15-year Participation Certificates sold by the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation. (references) |
Literature | Gnomes (1 syl.), according to the Rosicrucian system, are the elemental spirits of earth, and the guardians of mines and quarries. (Greek, gnoma knowledge, meaning the knowing ones, the wise ones.) (See Fairy, Salamanders.) "The four elements are inhabited by spirits called sylphs, gnomes, nymphs, and salamanders. The gnomes, or demons of the earth, delight in mischief, but the sylphs, whose habitation is in air, are the best conditioned creatures imaginable." - Pope: Pref. Letter to the Rape of the Lock. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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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."
Crosswords: GNOMES |
| English words defined with "GNOMES": gnomic. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "GNOMES": Dom-Daniel ♦ GNOME ♦ Stable Keys, sylph. (references) |
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Screenplays | It's better to help people than garden gnomes. (Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain, Le; writing credit: Guillaume Laurant; Jean-Pierre Jeunet) Like where fairies and gnomes live (Band of Brothers; writing credit: Stephen Ambrose; Erik Jendresen) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Gnomes of Dulwich (1969) Gnomes (1980) | |
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| "Gnome Forest" by Erika Thorpe Commentary: "Gnomes live here.......really!." |
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Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | SYLPH, n. An immaterial but visible being that inhabited the air when the air was an element and before it was fatally polluted with factory smoke, sewer gas and similar products of civilization. Sylphs were allied to gnomes, nymphs and salamanders, which dwelt, respectively, in earth, water and fire, all now insalubrious. Sylphs, like fowls of the air, were male and female, to no purpose, apparently, for if they had progeny they must have nested in accessible places, none of the chicks having ever been seen. |
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| "GNOMES" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 82.24% of the time. "GNOMES" is used about 107 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 (plural) | 82.24% | 88 | 35,154 |
| Noun (proper) | 17.76% | 19 | 80,337 |
| Total | 100.00% | 107 | N/A |
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| Language | Translations for "GNOMES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
German | Gnomen, Gnome. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | omesgnay.(various references) | |
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Misspellings | |
"GNOMES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ghnomes, ghome, gnaes, gnode, gnom, gnoma, gnomed, gnomen, gnomos, gnoses, gomez, gonnes, Gonnos, gonome, goumes, Ngoma, noems, nomes, yn-mes. (additional references) | |
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| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "GNOMES" (pronounced nō"mz) |
| 3 | -ō" m z | biomes, Combes, combs, domes, foams, homes, ohms, roams, tomes. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: genoms. | |
| Words within the letters "e-g-m-n-o-s" | |
-1 letter: genom, gnome, meson, nomes, omens, segno. | |
-2 letters: egos, engs, eons, gems, gens, goes, gone, megs, meno, mogs, mons, noes, nogs, nome, noms, nose, omen, ones, sego, smog, snog, some, sone, song. | |
-3 letters: ego, ems, eng, ens, eon, gem, gen, gos, meg, men, mog, mon, mos, nog, nom, nos, oes, oms, one, ons, ose. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-g-m-n-o-s" | |
+1 letter: genomes, mangoes, mongers, mongoes, morgens. | |
+2 letters: agnomens, gambeson, gemstone, gownsmen, hogmanes, longsome, magnetos, megatons, mendigos, mitogens, mongeese, mongoose, mongrels, montages, moseying, mungoose, smidgeon, zymogens. | |
+3 letters: amidogens, amylogens, becomings, besmoking, cheongsam, cognomens, comanages, comingles, cymogenes, egomanias, embosking, embossing, epigonism, gambesons, gammoners, gemstones, groomsmen, hogmenays, lodgments, magnetons, mangonels, mangroves, misgovern, modelings, molesting, moneybags, mongooses, morseling, mungooses, neologism, renograms, smidgeons, something, strongmen, venograms, zymogenes. | |
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