Giant vs Towering - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between giant and towering

is that giant is a mythical human of very great size while towering is the act or condition of being high above others.

As adjectives the difference between giant and towering

is that giant is very large while towering is very tall or high, particularly used to denote something that is taller than anything around it.

As a verb towering is

present participle of lang=en.

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

towering

English

Verb

(head)

Adjective

(en adjective)

Very tall or high, particularly used to denote something that is taller than anything around it.

*:So this was my future home, I thought!Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.

* {{quote-news, year=2010, date=December 28, author=Marc Vesty, work=BBC

, title= Stoke 0-2 Fulham , passage=And it was not until Ryan Shawcross's towering header was cleared off the line by Danny Murphy on the stroke of half-time that Stoke started to crank up the pressure and suggest they were capable of getting back into the match.}}

Noun

(en noun)

The act or condition of being high above others.

* 1829 , John Timbs, Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors

Gaiety seldom fails to give some pain; the hearers either strain their faculties to accompany its towerings , or are left behind in envy or despair.

* (Robert Burns)

But I am an old hawk at the sport; and wrote her such a cool, deliberate, prudent reply, as brought my bird from the aerial towerings pop down at my foot like Corporal Trim's hat.