Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English - giant
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Giant
giant
~1 adj only before noun extremely big and much bigger than other things of the same type (a giant sized box of detergent | a giant supermarket just outside town) ~2 n 1 a very tall, strong man in children's stories who is often bad and cruel 2 a very large, successful company (the German chemicals giant, BASF) 3 a very big man 4 someone who is very good at doing something (Scorcese is a giant of the American cinema.)
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(giants) Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. Something that is described as giant is much larger or more important than most others of its kind. ...Italy’s giant car maker, Fiat. ...a giant oak table. ...a giant step towards unification with the introduction of monetary union. = huge ADJ: ADJ n 2. Giant is often used to refer to any large, successful business organization or country. (JOURNALISM) ...Japanese electronics giant Sony. ...one of Germany’s industrial giants, Daimler-Benz. N-COUNT: usu n N 3. A giant is an imaginary person who is very big and strong, especially one mentioned in old stories. ...a Nordic saga of giants. N-COUNT 4. You can refer to someone, especially a man, as a giant, if they seem important or powerful or if they are big and strong. The biggest man in the patrol, a giant of a man, lifted Mattie on to his shoulders. N-COUNT: usu a N of n 5. You can refer to someone such as a famous musician or writer as a giant, if they are regarded as one of the most important or successful people in their field. He was without question one of the giants of Japanese literature. N-COUNT: usu N of n ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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I. noun Etymology: Middle English giaunt, from Anglo-French geant, from Latin gigant-, gigas, from Greek Date: 14th century 1. a legendary humanlike being of great stature and strength 2. a. a living being of great size b. a person of extraordinary powers 3. something unusually large or powerful • ~like adjective II. adjective Date: 15th century having extremely large size, proportion, or power ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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n. & adj. --n. 1 an imaginary or mythical being of human form but superhuman size. 2 (in Greek mythology) one of such beings who fought against the gods. 3 an abnormally tall or large person, animal, or plant. 4 a person of exceptional ability, integrity, courage, etc. 5 a large star. --attrib.adj. 1 of extraordinary size or force, gigantic; monstrous. 2 colloq. extra large (giant packet). 3 (of a plant or animal) of a very large kind. Phrases and idioms giant-killer a person who defeats a seemingly much more powerful opponent. Derivatives giantism n. giant-like adj. Etymology: ME geant (later infl. by L) f. OF, ult. f. L gigas gigant- f. Gk ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1) великанский 2) гигантский 3) исполинский giant-pulse radiation — моноимпульсное излучение manually operated giant — гидромонитор с ручным управлением single giant pulse — мощный одиночный импульс - cutting giant - giant ice floe - giant oscillations - giant pulse - self-propelled giant - short-range giant - sluicing giant - suspended giant ...Англо-русский Русско-английский научно-технический словарь
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1. великан, гигант 2. исполин, титан mental giant —- гигант мысли giant of the faith —- столп веры a giant among poets —- титан среди других поэтов 3. тех. монитор 4. астр. звезда-гигант 5. громадный, гигантский, исполинский, колоссальный a man of giant strength —- человек огромной силы he had a giant helping —- ему дали огромную порцию (пищи) giant planets —- большие планеты (Юпитер, Сатурн, Уран и Нептун) ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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panda гигантская панда GIANT 1. noun 1) великан, гигант, исполин; титан 2) tech. гидромонитор 2. adj. гигантский, громадный, исполинский Syn: see large ...Англо-русский словарь
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- c.1300, from O.Fr. geant, from V.L. *gagantem (nom. gagas), from L. gigas "giant," from Gk. gigas (gen. gigantos), one of a race of savage men eventually destroyed by the gods. Replaced O.E. ent, eoten. Gigantic (1612) replaced earlier gigantine. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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