Giant vs Raven - What's the difference?
giant | raven |
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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, title= A common name for several, generally large and lustrous black species of birds in the genus Corvus'', especially the common raven, ''Corvus corax .
Of the color of the raven; jet-black
(archaic) To obtain or seize by violence.
To devour with great eagerness.
To prey with rapacity; to be greedy; to show rapacity.
As nouns the difference between giant and raven
is that giant is (baseball) a player on the team the san francisco giants while raven is .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
*raven
English
Etymology 1
(wikipedia raven) (Corvus corax) From (etyl) ).Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* (Australian raven) () * (brown-necked raven) () * (Chatham raven) () * (Chihuahuan raven) () * common raven (Corvus corax ) * (dwarf raven) () * (fan-tailed raven) () * (forest raven) () * (little raven) () * (New Zealand raven) () * northern raven (Corvus corax ) * (pied raven) * (relict raven) () * (Somali raven) () * (Tasmanian raven) () * (thick-billed raven) () * (western raven) () * (white-necked raven) ()Adjective
(-)- raven curls
- raven darkness
- She was a tall, sophisticated, raven-haired beauty.
Derived terms
* nonraven * raven-black * raven-haired * ravenhood * raven standardEtymology 2
From (etyl) .Alternative forms
* ravin, ravineVerb
(en verb)- The raven is both a scavenger, who ravens''' a dead animal almost like a vulture, and a bird of prey, who commonly '''ravens to catch a rodent.