giant
IPA: dʒˈaɪʌnt
noun
- A mythical human of very great size.
- (mythology) Specifically:
- Any of the gigantes, the race of giants in the Greek mythology.
- A jotun.
- A very tall and large person.
- A tall species of a particular animal or plant.
- (astronomy) A star that is considerably more luminous than a main sequence star of the same temperature (e.g. red giant, blue giant).
- (computing) An Ethernet packet that exceeds the medium's maximum packet size of 1,518 bytes.
- A very large organisation.
- A person of extraordinary strength or powers, bodily or intellectual.
- (gymnastics) A maneuver involving a full rotation around an axis while fully extended.
- (baseball) A player for the San Francisco Giants.
- (American football) A player for the New York Giants.
adjective
- Very large.
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Examples of "giant" in Sentences
- The Colossus is a giant statue.
- Giants are living in the forest.
- They beat the Giants in overtime.
- Giant Insects are of the vermin type.
- In the huddle, the Giants were incredulous.
- The cataclysmic battle between the two giant monsters then begins.
- The enormous body of the giant takes up the centre of the composition.
- A large assortment of giant robots are used by the monsters of the series.
- The Checkered Giant is outweighed by the Giant Chinchilla and Flemish Giant.
- He discovered the squid giant axon and the corresponding squid giant synapse.
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