Giant vs Gaunt - What's the difference?
giant | gaunt |
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.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-26, author=
, volume=189, issue=7, page=32, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= lean, angular and bony
* {{quote-book
, year=1894
, author=Joseph Jacobs
, title=The Fables of Aesop
, chapter=1
haggard, drawn and emaciated
* {{quote-book
, year=1917
, author=Arthur Conan Doyle
, title=His Last Bow
, chapter=5
bleak, barren and desolate
* {{quote-book
, year=1908
, author=William Hope Hodgson
, title=The House on the Borderland
, chapter=14
As a noun giant
is (baseball) a player on the team the san francisco giants.As an adjective gaunt is
lean, angular and bony.giant
English
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
*gaunt
English
Alternative forms
* (l) * (l) (Scotland)Adjective
(er)citation, passage=A gaunt Wolf was almost dead with hunger when he happened to meet a House-dog who was passing by.}}
citation, passage=In the dim light of a foggy November day the sick room was a gloomy spot, but it was that gaunt , wasted face staring at me from the bed which sent a chill to my heart.}}
citation, passage=Behind me, rose up, to an extraordinary height, gaunt , black cliffs. }}