Cartel vs Giant - What's the difference?
cartel | giant |
A group of businesses or nations that collude to limit competition within an industry or market.
A combination of political groups (notably parties) for common action.
A written letter of defiance or challenge.
* Sir Walter Scott
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An official agreement concerning the exchange of prisoners.
(nautical) A ship used to negotiate with an enemy in time of war, and to exchange prisoners.
A mythical human of very great size.
(lb) Specifically, any of the Gigantes, the race of giants in the Greek mythology.
A very tall person.
A tall species of a particular animal or plant.
(lb) A star that is considerably more luminous than a main sequence star of the same temperature (e.g. red giant, blue giant).
(lb) 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.
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Very large.
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As nouns the difference between cartel and giant
is that cartel is cartel while giant is (baseball) a player on the team the san francisco giants.cartel
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(wikipedia cartel)Noun
(en noun)- He is cowed at the very idea of a cartel .
- Xerxes'' whipped the Sea, and writ a cartell of defiance to the hill ''Athos .
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Anagrams
* ----giant
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Alternative forms
* giaunt (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- 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.
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(-)Nick Miroff
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