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giant

/jahy-uhnt/US // ˈdʒaɪ ənt //UK // (ˈdʒaɪənt) //

巨人,巨大的,巨头,巨型

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a being with human form but superhuman size, strength, etc.
    • : a person or thing of unusually great size, power, importance, etc.; major figure; legend: a giant in her field; an intellectual giant.
    • : Classical Mythology. any of the Gigantes.
    • : Mining. monitor.
    • : Astronomy. giant star.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : unusually large, great, or strong; gigantic; huge.
    • : greater or more eminent than others.

Synonyms & Antonyms

adj.very large
Forms: giants

Examples

  • At Chapman University in Southern California, students are given a self-administered nasal swab test that is then sent to a commercial laboratory in a partnership with diagnostics giant LabCorp.

  • In North Africa, they’re up against a giant owned by tech titan Google — and one that catered to the region, when no one else would.

  • Inside were 864 servers, and their submersion was part of the second phase of the software giant’s Project Natick.

  • In the British oil and gas giant’s Energy Outlook, published Monday, BP outlines three possible growth scenarios between now and 2050—dubbed Rapid, Net Zero and Business as Usual.

  • Meanwhile, quiet giant Shopify is leveraging its website-as-a-service business to offer financial products to its millions of merchant customers.

  • Yeah, the “Giant man-puppy” that is Gronkowski won't hold a sexual candle to the blue-eyed dreamboat.

  • I knew there would be good times and bad, sickness and health, broken dishwashers and giant cockroaches in the bathroom.

  • No alarms were triggered as she strolled out of the Giant supermarket in Limerick, Pennsylvania, and nobody thought otherwise.

  • Until Levonuk reappeared an hour later wielding the soothing stuff at another Giant store 20 minutes away.

  • The forests were lush and filled with life, from giant snakes to monkeys.

  • The lazy giant was sprawling on the most comfortable of the sofas; the pair were alone in the dainty little drawing-room.

  • There he was found by old Makitok, and for some time the giant and the wizard held converse together.

  • And the nightmare clutch laid hold upon his heart with giant pincers.

  • In the second part of the poem the lady is threatened by an unwelcome suitor, in the person of a hideous giant.

  • The wind sang in his ears, and rock, bush, and stunted tree flashed by like so many missiles hurled at him by a giant hand.