Giant vs. Demon — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Giant and Demon
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Giant
In folklore, giants (from Ancient Greek: gigas, cognate giga-) are beings of human-like appearance, but are at times prodigious in size and strength or bear an otherwise notable appearance. The word giant is first attested in 1297 from Robert of Gloucester's chronicle.
Demon
A demon is a supernatural being, typically associated with evil, prevalent historically in religion, occultism, literature, fiction, mythology, and folklore; as well as in media such as comics, video games, movies, anime, and television series. In Ancient Near Eastern religions and in the Abrahamic traditions, including ancient and medieval Christian demonology, a demon is considered a harmful spiritual entity which may cause demonic possession, calling for an exorcism.
Giant
A person or thing of great size.
Demon
An evil supernatural being; a devil.
Giant
A person or thing of extraordinary power, significance, or importance
A giant in the field of physics.
Automotive industry giants.
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Demon
A persistently tormenting person, force, or passion
The demon of drug addiction.
Giant
Greek Mythology One of a race of humanlike beings of enormous strength and stature who were destroyed in battle with the Olympians.
Demon
One who is extremely zealous, skillful, or diligent
Worked away like a demon.
A real demon at math.
Giant
A being in folklore or myth similar to one of these beings.
Demon
Variant of daimon.
Giant
A gymnastic maneuver in which the body is swung, fully extended, around a horizontal bar.
Demon
An evil supernatural spirit.
Giant
Marked by exceptionally great size, magnitude, or power
A giant wave.
A giant impact.
Demon
An evil spirit resident in or working for Hell; a devil.
Giant
A mythical human of very great size.
Demon
A false god or idol; a Satanic divinity.
Giant
(mythology) Specifically:
Demon
A very wicked or malevolent person; also in weakened sense a mischievous person, especially a child.
Giant
Any of the gigantes, the race of giants in the Greek mythology.
Demon
A source (especially personified) of great evil or wickedness; a destructive feeling or character flaw.
The demon of stupidity haunts me whenever I open my mouth.
Giant
A jotun.
Demon
(in plural) A person's fears or anxieties.
Giant
A very tall and large person.
Demon
A neutral supernatural spirit.
Giant
A tall species of a particular animal or plant.
Demon
A person's inner spirit or genius; a guiding or creative impulse.
Giant
(astronomy) A star that is considerably more luminous than a main sequence star of the same temperature (e.g. red giant, blue giant).
Demon
(Greek mythology) A tutelary deity or spirit intermediate between the major Olympian gods and mankind, especially a deified hero or the entity which supposedly guided Socrates, telling him what not to do.
Giant
(computing) An Ethernet packet that exceeds the medium's maximum packet size of 1,518 bytes.
Demon
A spirit not considered to be inherently evil; a (non-Christian) deity or supernatural being.
Giant
A very large organisation.
The retail giant is set to acquire two more struggling high-street chains.
Demon
A hypothetical entity with special abilities postulated for the sake of a thought experiment in philosophy or physics.
Giant
A person of extraordinary strength or powers, bodily or intellectual.
Demon
Someone with great strength, passion or skill for a particular activity, pursuit etc.; an enthusiast.
He’s a demon at the card tables.
Giant
(gymnastics) A maneuver involving a full rotation around an axis while fully extended.
Demon
(card games) A type of patience or solitaire (card game) played in the UK and/or US.
Giant
Very large.
Demon
Any of various hesperiid butterflies of the genera Notocrypta and Udaspes.
Giant
A man of extraordinari bulk and stature.
Giants of mighty bone and bold emprise.
Demon
A spirit, or immaterial being, holding a middle place between men and deities in pagan mythology.
The demon kind is of an intermediate nature between the divine and the human.
Giant
A person of extraordinary strength or powers, bodily or intellectual.
Demon
One's genius; a tutelary spirit or internal voice; as, the demon of Socrates.
Giant
Any animal, plant, or thing, of extraordinary size or power.
Demon
An evil spirit; a devil.
That same demon that hath gulled thee thus.
Giant
Like a giant; extraordinary in size, strength, or power; as, giant brothers; a giant son.
Demon
One of the evil spirits of traditional Jewish and Christian belief
Giant
Any creature of exceptional size
Demon
A cruel wicked and inhuman person
Giant
A person of exceptional importance and reputation
Demon
Someone extremely diligent or skillful;
He worked like a demon to finish the job on time
She's a demon at math
Giant
An unusually large enterprise;
Walton built a retail giant
Giant
A very large person; impressive in size or qualities
Giant
Someone or something that is abnormally large and powerful
Giant
An imaginary figure of superhuman size and strength; appears in folklore and fair tales
Giant
A very bright star of large diameter and low density (relative to the Sun)
Giant
Of great mass; huge and bulky;
A jumbo jet
Jumbo shrimp
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