Giant vs. Huge — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Giant and Huge
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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.
Huge
Of exceedingly great size, extent, or quantity.
Giant
A person or thing of great size.
Huge
Of exceedingly great scope or nature
The huge influence of the Hellenic world.
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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Huge
(Informal) Contributing in a major way to success; very important
The defensive line was huge in the second half.
Giant
Greek Mythology One of a race of humanlike beings of enormous strength and stature who were destroyed in battle with the Olympians.
Huge
Very large.
Giant
A being in folklore or myth similar to one of these beings.
Huge
(informal) Very strong, powerful, or dedicated.
Both of my parents are huge supporters of animal rights.
Giant
A gymnastic maneuver in which the body is swung, fully extended, around a horizontal bar.
Huge
(informal) Very interesting, significant, or popular.
The band's next album is going to be huge.
In our league our coach is huge!
Giant
Marked by exceptionally great size, magnitude, or power
A giant wave.
A giant impact.
Huge
Very large; enormous; immense; excessive; - used esp. of material bulk, but often of qualities, extent, etc.; as, a huge ox; a huge space; a huge difference.
Doth it not flow as hugely as the sea.
Giant
A mythical human of very great size.
Huge
Unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scope;
Huge government spending
Huge country estates
Huge popular demand for higher education
A huge wave
The Los Angeles aqueduct winds like an immense snake along the base of the mountains
Immense numbers of birds
At vast (or immense) expense
The vast reaches of outer space
The vast accumulation of knowledge...which we call civilization
Giant
(mythology) Specifically:
Giant
Any of the gigantes, the race of giants in the Greek mythology.
Giant
A jotun.
Giant
A very tall and large person.
Giant
A tall species of a particular animal or plant.
Giant
(astronomy) A star that is considerably more luminous than a main sequence star of the same temperature (e.g. red giant, blue giant).
Giant
(computing) An Ethernet packet that exceeds the medium's maximum packet size of 1,518 bytes.
Giant
A very large organisation.
The retail giant is set to acquire two more struggling high-street chains.
Giant
A person of extraordinary strength or powers, bodily or intellectual.
Giant
(gymnastics) A maneuver involving a full rotation around an axis while fully extended.
Giant
Very large.
Giant
A man of extraordinari bulk and stature.
Giants of mighty bone and bold emprise.
Giant
A person of extraordinary strength or powers, bodily or intellectual.
Giant
Any animal, plant, or thing, of extraordinary size or power.
Giant
Like a giant; extraordinary in size, strength, or power; as, giant brothers; a giant son.
Giant
Any creature of exceptional size
Giant
A person of exceptional importance and reputation
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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