Giant vs Dramatic - What's the difference?
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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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Striking in appearance or effect.
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As a noun giant
is (baseball) a player on the team the san francisco giants.As an adjective dramatic is
dramatic.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.
Synonyms
See also:Adjective
(-)Nick Miroff
Mexico gets a taste for eating insects […], passage=The San Juan market is Mexico City's most famous deli of exotic meats, where an adventurous shopper can hunt down hard-to-find critters […]. But the priciest items in the market aren't the armadillo steaks or even the bluefin tuna. That would be the frozen chicatanas – giant winged ants – at around $500 a kilo.}}
Synonyms
* colossal, enormous, gigantic, immense, prodigious, vast * See alsoAntonyms
* dwarf * midgetDerived terms
* giant cell * giant clam * giantess * giant heron * giantism * giant kettle * giant powder * giant puffball * giant salamander * giant squid * giant white radishAnagrams
*dramatic
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Alternative forms
* dramatickAdjective
(en adjective)Best and brightest, passage=Poland has made some dramatic gains in education in the past decade. Before 2000 half of the country’s rural adults had finished only primary school. Yet international rankings now put the country’s students well ahead of America’s in science and maths (the strongest predictor of future earnings), even as the country spends far less per pupil. }}
