Giant vs Thick - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between giant and thick

is that giant is (baseball) a player on the team the san francisco giants while thick is the thickest, or most active or intense, part of something.

As an adjective thick is

relatively great in extent from one surface to the opposite in its smallest solid dimension.

As an adverb thick is

in a thick manner.

As a verb thick is

(archaic|transitive) to thicken.

giant

English

Alternative forms

* giaunt (obsolete)

Noun

(en noun)

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.

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

Adjective

(-)

Very large.

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Synonyms

* colossal, enormous, gigantic, immense, prodigious, vast * See also

Antonyms

* dwarf * midget

Derived terms

* giant cell * giant clam * giantess * giant heron * giantism * giant kettle * giant powder * giant puffball * giant salamander * giant squid * giant white radish

Anagrams

thick

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Adjective

(er)

Relatively great in extent from one surface to the opposite in its smallest solid dimension.

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)

, chapter=17 citation , passage=The face which emerged was not reassuring. It was blunt and grey, the nose springing thick and flat from high on the frontal bone of the forehead, whilst his eyes were narrow slits of dark in a tight bandage of tissue. […].}}

Measuring a certain number of units in this dimension.

Heavy in build; thickset.

* 2007 , James T. Knight, Queen of the Hustle

As she twirled around in front of the mirror admiring how the dress showed off her thick booty, she felt like a princess in a children's storybook.

Densely crowded or packed.

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, title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=My hopes wa'n't disappointed. I never saw clams thicker than they was along them inshore flats. I filled my dreener in no time, and then it come to me that 'twouldn't be a bad idee to get a lot more, take 'em with me to Wellmouth, and peddle 'em out. Clams was fairly scarce over that side of the bay and ought to fetch a fair price.}}

Having a viscous consistency.

Abounding in number.

Impenetrable to sight.

Difficult to understand, or poorly articulated.

(informal) Stupid.

(informal) Friendly or intimate.

* T. Hughes

We have been thick ever since.

Deep, intense, or profound.

* Shakespeare

thick sleep

Synonyms

* (relatively great in extent from one surface to another) broad * (measuring a certain number of units in this dimension) * (heavy in build) chunky, solid, stocky, thickset * (densely crowded or packed) crowded, dense, packed * (having a viscous consistency) glutinous, viscous * (abounding in number) overflowing, swarming, teeming * (impenetrable to sight) dense, opaque, solid * (sense) unclear * dense, dumb (informal), stupid, thick as pigshit (taboo slang), thick as two short planks (slang) * (sense) chummy (qualifier), close, close-knit, friendly, pally (informal), intimate, tight-knit * great, extreme * See also

Antonyms

* (relatively great in extent from one surface to another) slim, thin * (heavy in build) slender, slight, slim, svelte, thin * (densely crowded or packed) sparse * (having a viscous consistency) free-flowing, runny * (abounding in number) * (impenetrable to sight) thin, transparent * (sense) clear, lucid * brainy (informal), intelligent, smart * (sense) unacquainted

Derived terms

* blood is thicker than water * thick and thin * thick as a brick * thick as a plank * thick as thieves * thick as two short planks * thicket * thickhead * thickish * thickly * thicko * thickness * thickset * thick-skinned * thick-un * thicky

Adverb

(er)

In a thick manner.

Snow lay thick on the ground.

Thickly.

Bread should be sliced thick to make toast.

Frequently; in great numbers.

The arrows flew thick and fast around us.

Noun

(-)

The thickest, or most active or intense, part of something.

It was mayhem in the thick of battle.

* Dryden

He through a little window cast his sight / Through thick of bars, that gave a scanty light.

A thicket.

* Drayton

gloomy thicks

* Spenser

Through the thick they heard one rudely rush.

A stupid person; a fool.

* 2014 , Joseph O'Connor, The Thrill of It All (page 100)

If there was doctorates in bollocksology and scratching yourself in bed, the two of you'd be professors by now. Pair of loafing, idle thicks .

Derived terms

* in the thick of * through thick and thin

Verb

(en verb)

(archaic) To thicken.

The nightmare Life-in-death was she, / Who thicks man's blood with cold. — Coleridge.

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