Titanic vs Vast - What's the difference?
titanic | vast | Related terms |
(inorganic chemistry) Of or relating to titanium, especially tetravalent titanium
Very large or wide (literally or figuratively).
Very great in size, amount, degree, intensity, or especially extent.
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(obsolete) Waste; desert; desolate; lonely.
* William Shakespeare, the Life and Death of Richard the Third Act I, scene IV:
(poetic) A vast space.
* 1608': they have seemed to be together, though absent, shook hands, as over a '''vast , and embraced, as it were, from the ends of opposed winds. — William Shakespeare, ''The Winter's Tale , I.i
Titanic is a related term of vast.
As an adjective titanic
is of, or relating to the titans, a race in ancient mythology.As a proper noun titanic
is , a cruise liner that sank on its maiden voyage on april 14, 1912 after colliding with an iceberg.As a noun vast is
west (compass point).titanic
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(-)Derived terms
* fluotitanic acid * titanate * titanic acid * titanico- * titanic oxide * titanic iron ore * titanic schorlvast
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(en-adj)- The Sahara desert is vast .
- There is a vast difference between them.
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- the empty, vast , and wandering air