Word Finder - giants

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A mythical human of very great size.

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Specifically, any of the gigantes, the race of giants in the Greek mythology.

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A very tall and large person.

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A tall species of a particular animal or plant.

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A star that is considerably more luminous than a main sequence star of the same temperature (e.g. red giant, blue giant).

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An Ethernet packet that exceeds the medium's maximum packet size of 1,518 bytes.

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A very large organisation.

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The retail giant is set to acquire two more struggling high-street chains.

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A person of extraordinary strength or powers, bodily or intellectual.

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He lived and he loved like one of the giants of old.

The giants battled, and she couldn't help feeling awed by the prisoner's abilities as he met the blows of all three foes and remained standing.

He was shorter than the seven-foot giants around him, standing right at Romas's height.

The tombs of their inhabitants are of two classes - the so-called tombe dei giganti, or giants' tombs, and the domus de gianas, or houses of the spirits.

He next helped the gods in the great battle against the giants.

Since then, all major biotech giants are investing in rice research.

In the Southern Sierra Madre, the " oyamel " and " ocote pine are the giants of the forest, sometimes rising to a height of 100 ft.

Like most gods, they had struggles for pre-eminence with Titanic opponents, the Asuras, who partly answer to the Greek Titans and the Hawaiian foes of the divine race, or to the Scandinavian giants and the enemies who beset the savage creative beings.

This is the overwhelming view of Financial Mail readers in a survey into the power of the retail giants.

A little armadillo, the mulita, is the living representative of the antediluvian giants Mylodon, Megatherium, &c. The ostrich-Rhea americana-roams everywhere in the plains; and there are a few specimens of the vulture tribe, a native crow (lean, tall and ruffed), partridges and quails.

He was one of the Anakim, or giants of Palestine; he read the books of Abraham, where he got the name Yahweh, by virtue of which he predicted the future, and got from God whatever he asked.

Brugsch (q.v.) was the author of a hieroglyphic and demotic dictionary which still holds the field, and from time to time carried forward the study of demotic by a giants stride.

The Potsdam regiment of giants was disbanded, but the real interests of the army were carefully studied, for Frederick realized that the two pillars of the Prussian state were sound finances and a strong army.

The question then is - How long must the name of Ulysses have been familiar in the legend (Sage) of Troy before it made its way into the tales of giants and ogres (Mdrehen), where the poet of the Odyssey found it ?

This was regafded as a miraculous feat brought about by the incantations of the magician Merlin, who caused a great stone circle in Ireland (said to have been previously carried thither out of Africa by giants) to be transported to Salisbury Plain, where, at Merlin's "word of power," all the stones moved into their proper places.

There is no doubt that both Gargantua and Pantagruel were popular names of giants in the Middle Ages, though, curiously enough, no mention of the former in French literature much before Rabelais's time has been traced.

The other incidents in which he appears in a purely triumphal character are his transforming into dolphins the Tyrrhene pirates who attacked him, as told in the Homeric hymn to Dionysus and represented on the monument of Lysicrates at Athens, and his part in the war of the gods against the giants.

Odysseus in his wanderings arrived at the coast inhabited by the Laestrygones, and escaped with only one ship, the rest being sunk by the giants with masses of rock.

In general, it appears that those narratives wherein the histories of Saul and David are combined-very much in the favour of the latterwere originally distinct from those where (a) Saul's figure is more in accord with the old poem from the Book of Jashar, and (b) where David's victories over prehistoric giants and his war like movements to Jerusalem pave the way for the foundation-from a particular Judaean standpoint-of his remarkably long dynasty.

Several giants with Romas's shade of blond hair and similar blue eyes seated themselves across from them.

It all bodes well for the album ' Standing On The Shoulder Of Giants ' which is due on the 28th February.

Neville is in the tradition of gentle giants of the keyboard.

The pharmaceutical giants who are pushing GMOs bank some $ 161 billion dollars between them every year.

Cable firms can package the service to existing customers and telecom giants like AT&T are beginning to enter the market.

Teixeira already has 107 homers and 340 RB Giants Stadium New York phone calls seeking comment.

The limestone outcrops are popularly believed to be the petrified bodies of trolls and giants, rendered immobile by the witches.

The late impresario and life peer Lew Grade fled the Ukraine to become one of the giants in British television.

Trekking in Tanzania and Kenya The major mountain massifs of East Africa are solitary giants.

Pupils at The Clarendon School had the chance to meet the self-made millionaires, who are now giants in the computer gaming world.

There's a nod too to They Might Be Giants, especially on ' Precious Metals ', which some might find off-putting.

Sa(h)m exhorts the other giants to cheer up and eat but they are too sorrowful to eat and instead fall asleep.

Clyde won the East Kilbride invitational tournament with a 6 -0 victory over Ayrshire Junior Giants Auchinleck Talbot.

These giants have a massive wingspan of over 3 meters and have inspired countless books, movies, and stunt attempts.

Martial music (cp. 'ABi i vn vaXorty,, "trumpet") and the Pyrrhic dance, in which she herself is said to have taken part to commemorate the victory over the giants, and the building of war-ships were attributed to her.

Her power is irresistible, even greater than that of the gods; to her was due the strife (battles with Titans, Giants) that raged amongst them of old, before the rule of love began; the world revolves round the spindle, which she holds in her lap. According to the Egyptian theory, she is one of the four deities present at the birth of every human being, her companions being the Daemon (guardian spirit), Tyche (Fortune) and Eros.

But there are exceptions even among the male giants, such as Aegir, whom we find on friendly terms with the gods.

Another story is that six babes, miraculously conceived, were born of the six nymphs, and that Parvati, the wife of Siva, in her great affection for them, embraced the infants so closely that they became one, but preserved six faces, twelve arms, feet, eyes, &c. Kartikeya became the victor of giants and the leader of the armies of the gods.

The hoax was finally exposed by Professor Othniel C. Marsh of Yale; and George Hall of Binghamton, N.Y., confessed to the fraud, his object having been to discredit belief in the "giants" of Genesis vi.

From the blood of Uranus (this feature is common in Red Indian and Egyptian myths) were born furies, giants, ash-nymphs and Aphrodite.

So what can we learn from the latest skirmish in the battle of the giants?

With a great thumping soundtrack by They Might Be Giants.

Clyde won the East Kilbride Invitational Tournament with a 6 -0 victory over Ayrshire Junior Giants Auchinleck Talbot.

These cats get along well with children and other pets, and they are often referred to as "gentle giants".

The trend now is leaning toward this-entire lines are being introduced by well-known cosmetic giants that dedicate makeup and skincare to men.

He is a graduate of the Makeup Studio of Milano, and his early jobs included working for such fashion giants as Versace, Armani, and Dolce and Gabbana.

Arbus' photos of transvestites, dwarves, giants, prostitutes and mental patients, in poses and settings that convey a disturbing humanity are still influential today.

Listed below are a few of the current tween marketing giants, which provide the perfect gift ideas for that special young person in your life.

He is also a loyal San Francisco Giants fan, and is very proud of his collection of autographed baseballs.

In vigour, branching habit, freedom of flowering, stature, and fine presence, they are immeasurably superior to the older sorts; giants many of them, and of beauty unknown till recent years.

Some produce small, almost individual-sized fruits, while others promise massive giants.