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giant

A giant is a very big man or woman, often in fairy tales. Jack climbed the beanstalk and found a land ruled by a giant.

giant

If a thing is giant, it is very big. He bought a giant doll at the fair.

giant

(= jumbo) of great mass; huge and bulky a jumbo jet jumbo shrimp any creature of exceptional size an unusually large enterprise Walton built a retail giant (= colossus) a person of exceptional importance and reputation a very large person; impressive in size or qualities someone or something that is abnormally large and powerful an imaginary figure of superhuman size and strength; appears in folklore and fairy tales (= giant star) a very bright star of large diameter and low density (relative to the Sun)

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Simple sentences

Giant pandas live only in China.
The giant plane screamed down in an almost vertical dive.
I've never seen such a giant watermelon!
Nancy had never seen a giant panda.
That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.
Reaching into his pocket, Dima pulled out a giant briefcase.
Those shadows appeared in a way like giant dinosaurs, with a long neck and a very big jaw without teeth.
This giant table occupies the entire room.
Lonesome George was the last giant tortoise of his kind.
I have a giant's strength to win your favor; but to lose you, none.
There will be a giant crop of corn this year.
Tom was killed by a giant hornet.
Even if I were a dwarf, I would still be a giant.
The children made a giant snowman.
Nancy had never seen a giant panda before.
The Great Dane is a breed of domestic dog known for its giant size.
I live in a giant bucket.
The Galapagos Islands giant tortoise known as Lonesome George is dead.
Something cold and slimy touched Nastya's cheek, and she cringed, seeing it was a giant tentacle.
The giant awoke!
Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.

Movie subtitles

While it's been a spectacular ride in the last decade to find these planets, most of them are giant planets.
You never know when some giant fiendish beast Will strike at us with its horrible fanged tentacles.
See, when a star is dying, it transforms into a red giant.
And if the red giant does not have enough mass to fuse carbon, an inert mass of carbon and oxygen builds up in the center, transforming into a dense white dwarf.
Yeah, it looks like a giant dump.
That giant espresso machine from Italy, Rie put that together herself.
Yeah, I got this giant knife and I went to this girl's house and was gonna find her, but she wasn't there, so I just slashed her tires.
A giant came in here and woke me up.
It was a giant and he woke me up.
No, he was a nice giant.
You're pretty much of a giant yourself, aren't you?
It must be that book Jack the Giant Killer. that's got into his head with his great imagination.
Now, Peter. I want you to tell me all about the elephants, the tigers. and that giant.
But what about the giant?
But from the Neanderthal man to the Cardiff Giant it has been an absolute theory.
The decision has been made to send a second interplanetary giant on a voyage.
Do you have the necessary clout and authority over that giant doorman to get me onto the lot?
Maybe the giant doorman is a member of the cabal.
Giant?
It's stimulating when two giant intellects get together.
But some woman is down there. under 10 fathoms of green water. all alone in a dead ship. where the shark and the giant squid swim through the dark shadows.
That there's from a giant squid.
Tarzan catch giant bird.
Giant trees and climbing plants, parasites live here everything struggles for survival, dangerously and beautifully, silently and murderously.
Lhasa and its surroundings have become one giant temple these days, filled with the pilgrims' prayers.
Look at it, like a giant chessboard.
The strange death of ex-President Murillo. The Giant Rat of Sumatra, ghastly affair.
At night, the giant bat would seek its victims.
Or maybe they're all just giant pens.
Am I really in the presence of the great giant Rumpus?
The magician giant Rumpus?
The clever and good-hearted giant Rumpus?
Listen, Marty, I know you're no mental giant but try to juggle this, all of you.
Now does he feel his title hang loose about him, like a giant's robe upon a dwarfish thief.
Like a giant racer.
The vast wilderness of giant, lush foliage.
Of tropical birds and fierce animal life. the killer tiger. the cunning hyena. the deadly python that can crush a giant elk. the proud lion.
When high on a mountaintop in Southern California, a giant telescope searches the heavens for the secrets there contained.
Dr. Mitchell, what puzzles me is that you've had the giant telescope for years. Why are you just getting these pictures now?

News and current affairs

It might have gained more support just a few days later - after senators witnessed the bailout of the giant eurozone banks.
Even if Japan had never experienced a real-estate and stock-market bubble, the meteoric rise of its giant neighbor China would have been a huge challenge.
Telecom research centers and consortia have flocked to Texas, even from the Canadian telecommunications giant Nortel.
The American dollar soared, the Japanese yen went into orbit, the euro fell to earth, and the British pound crashed, leaving a giant crater.
The creation of America as a major economic power, after all, was made possible by giant steel mills, integrated railway systems, and the mobilization of enormous energy reserves through such ventures as Standard Oil.
PALO ALTO - The United States and Europe are two giant free-trade areas, each wealthy but with serious short-run problems and immense long-run challenges.
E. B. Wilson, the proverbial giant of cell biology, had the last word, concluding in a brief paper following Rashevsky's presentation that mathematics may be helpful in studying the growth of populations, but not individuals.
Fourth, and finally, the failure of Lehman Brothers and near failure of the insurance giant AIG, incited a financial panic, in which even healthy firms are unable to obtain short-term bank loans or sell short-term commercial paper.
A contest for China's soul is now underway in that giant country, pitting two powerful forces and two very different stances toward the outside world against each other.
The telecommunications giant Ericsson and the pop singer Madonna are teaming up to get kids into school and connected worldwide through wireless broadband.
Likewise, Russian gas giant Gazprom could increase the price it charges its European customers only by breaking existing contracts.
The surprise decision by Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to propose a constitutional amendment that would allow direct and competitive presidential elections may be a giant step for democracy in Egypt and the Arab World.
True, the assembly line, a brain-numbing experience, was a feature of capitalism from the pin factor that Adam Smith wrote about in 1776 until Henry Ford's giant plants in the 1920's.
The winner of this year's Nobel prize for economics, Edmund Phelps, is a giant in the field.
In Afghanistan last year, the US installed Hamid Karzai, a former consultant for oil giant Unocal, as interim leader.
India's rise as an economic giant is also linked to the post-1989 events.
Without a strong capacity for innovation and creativity, even a giant has feet of clay.
And when a giant falls, many are hurt.
But China's rulers would take a giant step forward by recognizing that such aspirations are not a threat to the country's wellbeing.
In the days and weeks ahead, there could arise occasions when the news from Cairo is not uplifting, but let us never forget that Egypt has taken a giant step, which in reality is a giant step for all Arabs.
After slowing its dam-building program in response to the serious environmental consequences of completion in 2006 of the Three Gorges Dam - the world's largest - China is now rushing to build a new generation of giant dams.
The Salween, which runs from Tibet through Yunnan Province into Burma and Thailand, will cease to be Asia's last largely free-flowing river, with work on the first project - the giant, 4,200-megawatt Songta Dam in Tibet - to begin shortly.
But the attack on the arts and humanities is a giant step in the direction of a pliable, dumbed-down citizenry.
Historically squeezed between its two giant neighbors, China and Japan, South Korea had long been perceived as an underdog with a fuzzy cultural identity.
This is as silly as contending that antiretroviral drugs won't work in the region, and that treating HIV is all a giant plot on the part of big pharmaceutical companies.
For half a century, the process of European integration proceeded - sometimes with setbacks, sometimes with giant steps forward - joining formerly separate markets by creating very close trade relations.

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