Giant vs Insect - What's the difference?
giant | insect |
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=
1=antenna 2=lower ocelli 3=upper ocelli 4=compound eye 5=brain 6=prothorax 7=dorsal artery 8=tracheal tubes 9=mesothorax 10=metathorax 11=first wing 12=second wing 13=midgut (stomach) 14=heart 15=ovary 16=hindgut 17=anus 18=vagina 19=nerve chord 20=Malpighian tubes 21=pillow 22=claws 23=tarsus 24=tibia 25=femur 26=trochanter 27=foregut 28=thoracic ganglion 29=coxa 30=salivary gland 31=subesophageal ganglion 32=mouthparts , detail3= }} An arthropod in the class Insecta, characterized by six legs, up to four wings, and a chitinous exoskeleton.
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, title= (colloquial) Any small arthropod similar to an insect including spiders, centipedes, millipedes, etc
A contemptible or powerless person.
As nouns the difference between giant and insect
is that giant is (baseball) a player on the team the san francisco giants while insect is an arthropod in the class insecta, characterized by six legs, up to four wings, and a chitinous exoskeleton.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
*insect
English
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Noun
(en noun)William E. Conner
An Acoustic Arms Race, volume=101, issue=3, page=206-7, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Nonetheless, some insect prey take advantage of clutter by hiding in it. Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close (less than half a meter) above vegetation and effectively blending into the clutter of echoes that the bat receives from the leaves and stems around them.}}