Dwarf vs. Swarf — What's the Difference?

(in folklore or fantasy literature) a member of a mythical race of short, stocky humanlike creatures who are generally skilled in mining and metalworking.

Swarf, also known as chips or by other process-specific names (such as turnings, filings, or shavings), are pieces of metal, wood, or plastic that are the debris or waste resulting from machining, woodworking, or similar subtractive (material-removing) manufacturing processes. Swarf or chips can be small particles (such as the gritty swarf from grinding metal or the sawdust from sawing or sanding wood); long, stringy tendrils (such as the springy chips from turning tough metals, or long shavings from whittling); slag-like waste (such as is produced within pipe during pipefitting work); or stone fragments and dust (as in masonry).Some of these terms are mass nouns (such as swarf and sawdust) and some of them are count nouns (such as chips, filings, or shavings).

A star of relatively small size and low luminosity, including the majority of main sequence stars.

Fine metallic filings or shavings removed by a cutting tool.

Cause to seem small or insignificant in comparison

(uncountable) The waste chips or shavings from an abrasive activity, such as metalworking, a saw cutting wood, or the use of a grindstone or whetstone.

A person with a usually genetic disorder resulting in atypically short stature and often disproportionate limbs.

(countable) A particular waste chip or shaving.

An atypically small animal or plant.

(obsolete) A faint or swoon.

A small creature resembling a human, often having magical powers, appearing in legends and fairy tales.

(transitive) To grind down.

A dwarf star.

To grow languid; to faint.

To check the natural growth or development of; stunt

To grow languid; to faint.

To cause to appear small by comparison

The grit worn away from grindstones in grinding cutlery wet.

To become stunted or grow smaller.

(mythology) Any member of a race of beings from (especially Scandinavian and other Germanic) folklore, usually depicted as having some sort of supernatural powers and being skilled in crafting and metalworking, often as short with long beards, and sometimes as clashing with elves.

A person of short stature, often one whose limbs are disproportionately small in relation to the body as compared with typical adults, usually as the result of a genetic condition.

An animal, plant or other thing much smaller than the usual of its sort.

(star) A star of relatively small size.

Miniature.

(transitive) To render (much) smaller, turn into a dwarf (version).

(transitive) To make appear (much) smaller, puny, tiny.

(transitive) To make appear insignificant.

(intransitive) To become (much) smaller.

To hinder from growing to the natural size; to make or keep small; to stunt.

An animal or plant which is much below the ordinary size of its species or kind.

A diminutive human being, small in stature due to a pathological condition which causes a distortion of the proportions of body parts to each other, such as the limbs, torso, and head. A person of unusually small height who has normal body proportions is usually called a midget.

A small, usually misshapen person, typically a man, who may have magical powers; mythical dwarves were often depicted as living underground in caves.

To hinder from growing to the natural size; to make or keep small; to stunt.

To become small; to diminish in size.

A person who is abnormally small

A legendary creature resembling a tiny old man; lives in the depths of the earth and guards buried treasure

Make appear small by comparison;

Check the growth of;