What is the difference between colossus and behemoth?
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A statue of gigantic size. The name was especially applied to certain famous statues in antiquity, as the Colossus of Nero in Rome and the Colossus of Rhodes, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
Any creature or thing of gigantic size.
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(label) Somebody or something very greatly admired and respected.
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A great and mighty monster.
Something which has the qualities of great power and might, and monstrous proportions.
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Lo now, his strength is in his loins, and his force is in the navel of his belly.
He moveth his tail like a cedar: the sinews of his stones are wrapped together.
His bones are as strong pieces of brass; his bones are like bars of iron. * 2001 — , Artemis Fowl , p 58 *: Next she doused the smouldering troll with the contents of the restaurant's fire extinguisher, hoping the icy powder wouldn't revive the sleeping behemoth .
Behemoth is a synonym of colossus.
As nouns the difference between colossus and behemoth
is that colossus is a statue of gigantic size. The name was especially applied to certain famous statues in antiquity, as the Colossus of Nero in Rome and the Colossus of Rhodes, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World while behemoth is a great and mighty beast God shows Job in Job 40:15-24.colossus
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(en-noun)- [“]The Empire has always been a realm of colossal resources. They’ve calculated everything in planets, in stellar systems, in whole sectors of the Galaxy. Their generators are gigantic because they thought in gigantic fashion.
- To supply light and heat to a city, they have motors six stories high?—?I saw them?—?where ours could fit into this room. And when I told one of their atomic specialists that a lead container the size of a walnut contained an atomic generator, he almost choked with indignation on the spot.
- Why, they don’t even understand their own colossi any longer. The machines work from generation to generation automatically, and the caretakers are a hereditary caste who would be helpless if a single D-tube in all that vast structure burnt out.[”]
Ben “Yahtzee” Croshaw], “[http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/1924-Shadow-of-the-Colossus Shadow of the Colossus]” reviewed by [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation Zero Punctuation, 3:27–3:42 and 3:56–4:08
- What I love about the colossi is that they actually feel colossal ?: they move ponderously around, sending out tremours with each step; their ancient husks richly detailed with dirt and plant life. They really do feel like something that has been sleeping in the ground for so long they’ve almost become part of the landscape, now rudely awoken and sleepily pawing at you, like you’re an unusually aggressive snooze button.
- So Shadow of the Colossus has its gripes: one or two of the colossi phone it in a bit, especially the ones that are only about the size of a bull, which is disappointing when held against flying-snakey-speeding-horsey-leapy-stabby wahey, like a big gift box containing five thousand packing peanuts and a Kinder Surprise.
Magician’s brain, passage=The truth is that [Isaac] Newton was very much a product of his time. The colossus of science was not the first king of reason, Keynes wrote after reading Newton’s unpublished manuscripts. Instead “he was the last of the magicians”.}}
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* (Colossus of Rhodes) ----behemoth
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(wikipedia behemoth)Noun
(en noun)citation, page= , passage=The diehards who did turn out were at least rewarded with a first sight of Jon Parkin, the behemoth striker signed from Preston, who scored a stunning goal on his debut at Norwich last weekend.}}
Synonyms
* (something of great size and power ): colossus, leviathan, mammoth, titanQuotations
* *: Behold now behemoth , which I made with thee; he eateth grass as an ox.Lo now, his strength is in his loins, and his force is in the navel of his belly.
He moveth his tail like a cedar: the sinews of his stones are wrapped together.
His bones are as strong pieces of brass; his bones are like bars of iron. * 2001 — , Artemis Fowl , p 58 *: Next she doused the smouldering troll with the contents of the restaurant's fire extinguisher, hoping the icy powder wouldn't revive the sleeping behemoth .