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robust | giant |

As an adjective robust

is evincing strength; indicating vigorous health; strong; sinewy; muscular; vigorous; sound; as, a robust body; robust youth; robust health.

As a noun giant is

(baseball) a player on the team the san francisco giants.

robust

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Evincing strength; indicating vigorous health; strong; sinewy; muscular; vigorous; sound; as, a robust body; robust youth; robust health.
    • He was a robust man of six feet four.
  • * Anthony Trollope (1815-1882)
    • She was stronger, larger, more robust physically than he had hitherto conceived.
  • Violent; rough; rude.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=October 1 , author=Phil McNulty , title=Everton 0 - 2 Liverpool , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=As a frenetic opening continued, Cahill - whose robust approach had already prompted Jamie Carragher to register his displeasure to Atkinson - rose above the Liverpool defence to force keeper Pepe Reina into an athletic tip over the top.}}
  • Requiring strength or vigor; as, robust employment.
  • Sensible (of intellect etc.); straightforward, not given to or confused by uncertainty or subtlety;
  • (systems engineering) Designed or evolved in such a way as to be resistant to total failure despite partial damage.
  • (software engineering) Resistant or impervious to failure regardless of user input or unexpected conditions.
  • (statistics) Not greatly influenced by errors in assumptions about the distribution of sample errors.

    • Usage notes

    * "More" and "most robust" are much more common than the forms ending in "-er" or "-est".

    Derived terms

    * robustness

    See also

    * (Robust statistics)

    Anagrams

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    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

    See also:

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Very large.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-26, author= Nick Miroff
    • , volume=189, issue=7, page=32, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= 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 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

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