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noun. A person or thing of great size.

noun. A person or thing of extraordinary power, significance, or importance.

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noun. One of a race of humanlike beings of enormous strength and stature who were destroyed in battle with the Olympians.

noun. A being in folklore or myth similar to one of these beings.

noun. A gymnastic maneuver in which the body is swung, fully extended, around a horizontal bar.

adjective. Marked by exceptionally great size, magnitude, or power.

noun. In gold-mining, a large nozle used to direct the powerful streams employed in hydraulic work. See cut under hydraulic.

noun. In classical mythology, one of a divine but monstrous race, children of Uranus (Heaven) and Gæa (Earth), and personifying destructive physical phenomena, as those of volcanic origin.

noun. Some other imaginary being of human form but superhuman size: as, Giant Despair, in Bunyan's “Pilgrim's Progress.”

noun. Figuratively, a person of unusual size or of extraordinary powers, physical or mental.

Gigantic; of extraordinary size or force, actual or relative: as, “the giant world,” ; a giant intellect.

noun. A man of extraordinari bulk and stature.

noun. A person of extraordinary strength or powers, bodily or intellectual.

noun. Any animal, plant, or thing, of extraordinary size or power.

noun. a vast collection of basaltic pillars, in the county of Antrim on the northern coast of Ireland.

adjective. Like a giant; extraordinary in size, strength, or power

adjective. See Myeloplax.

adjective. a bivalve shell of the genus Tridacna, esp. T. gigas, which sometimes weighs 500 pounds. The shells are sometimes used in churches to contain holy water.

adjective. a very large African heron (Ardeomega goliath). It is the largest heron known.

adjective. a pothole of very large dimensions, as found in Norway in connection with glaciers. See Pothole.

adjective. See Nitroglycerin.

adjective. a fungus (Lycoperdon giganteum), edible when young, and when dried used for stanching wounds.

adjective. a very large aquatic salamander (Megalobatrachus maximus), found in Japan. It is the largest of living Amphibia, becoming a yard long.

adjective. one of several species of very large squids, belonging to Architeuthis and allied genera. Some are over forty feet long.

noun. A mythical human of very great size

noun. Specifically, any of the Gigantes, the race of giants in the Greek mythology.

noun. A very tall person.

noun. A tall species of a particular animal or plant.

noun. A star that is considerably more luminous than a main sequence star of the same temperature (eg. red giant, blue giant).

noun. An Ethernet packet that exceeds the medium's maximum packet size of 1,518 bytes.

noun. A very large organisation.

adjective. very large

noun. a very large person; impressive in size or qualities

noun. someone or something that is abnormally large and powerful

noun. a person of exceptional importance and reputation

noun. an unusually large enterprise

adjective. of great mass; huge and bulky

noun. any creature of exceptional size

noun. an imaginary figure of superhuman size and strength; appears in folklore and fairy tales

noun. a very bright star of large diameter and low density (relative to the Sun)