Gnome

The word Gnome can mean different things:

 A Gnome is a creature of myth.
 Gnomes are elemental spirits of earth.
 Gnomes are tiny, shaped like humans, with long beards.  A gnome is like a dwarf but smaller.  Gnomes like gems and mining.
 The GNOME desktop is a desktop environment for computers running Unix and Unix-like computer operating systems.