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Giant
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- 1 Very large. not-comparable
"The San Juan market is Mexico City's most famous deli of exotic meats, where an adventurous shopper can hunt down hard-to-find critters …. But the priciest items in the market aren't the armadillo steaks or even the bluefin tuna. That would be the frozen chicatanas – giant winged ants – at around $500 a kilo."
- 1 of great mass; huge and bulky wordnet
- 1 A mythical human of very great size.
- 2 A player for the San Francisco Giants.
- 3 any creature of exceptional size wordnet
- 4 Specifically:; Any of the gigantes, the race of giants in the Greek mythology.
- 5 A player for the New York Giants.
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- 6 an unusually large enterprise wordnet
- 7 Specifically:; An eoten or jotun.
"The giants also had been outlawed along with Satan because they had fought against god."
- 8 a very bright star of large diameter and low density (relative to the Sun) wordnet
- 9 A very tall and large person.
""It's barbarous, Norsus." "It's Rome," said the giant flatly."
- 10 an imaginary figure of superhuman size and strength; appears in folklore and fairy tales wordnet
- 11 A tall species of a particular animal or plant.
- 12 a person of exceptional importance and reputation wordnet
- 13 A star that is considerably more luminous than a main sequence star of the same temperature (e.g. red giant, blue giant).
- 14 someone that is abnormally large and powerful wordnet
- 15 An Ethernet packet that exceeds the medium's maximum packet size of 1,518 bytes.
- 16 a very large person; impressive in size or qualities wordnet
- 17 A very large organization.
"The retail giant is set to acquire two more struggling high-street chains."
- 18 A person of extraordinary strength or powers, bodily or intellectual.
"But then I had the flintlock by me for protection. ¶ There were giants in the days when that gun was made; for surely no modern mortal could have held that mass of metal steady to his shoulder. The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window[…]."
- 19 A maneuver involving a full rotation around an axis while fully extended.
Etymology
From Middle English geaunt, geant, from Old French geant, gaiant (Modern French géant) from Vulgar Latin *gagās, gagant-, from Latin gigās, gigant-, from Ancient Greek γίγας (gígas, “giant”) Cognate to giga- (“1,000,000,000”). Displaced native Old English ent. Compare Modern English ent (“giant tree-man”).
From Middle English geaunt, geant, from Old French geant, gaiant (Modern French géant) from Vulgar Latin *gagās, gagant-, from Latin gigās, gigant-, from Ancient Greek γίγας (gígas, “giant”) Cognate to giga- (“1,000,000,000”). Displaced native Old English ent. Compare Modern English ent (“giant tree-man”).
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