giant

«giant» in Mova's school dictionary: an imaginary person who is enormously big and strong — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a giant, giants); adjective

meaning for a pupil

1) In stories, a giant is an imaginary person who is enormously big and strong. tree →

2) Giant (adjective) means very, very large. tree →

3) A giant is a person, company or thing that is very important or successful, like a giant of science. tree →

sense in the lessons

In stories and fairy tales (Jack and the Beanstalk, The BFG), giants are usually huge and scary or sometimes kind; they tell the reader about size, danger and courage. In science, there are giant animals and plants: blue whales, giant pandas, giant tortoises, giant squid, giant sequoias; Jupiter is a gas giant. «Giant's Causeway» in Northern Ireland is made of rock columns. Phrases: «a giant step», «giant panda», «gentle giant», «gas giant», «on the shoulders of giants».

examples

• The giant lived in a castle above the clouds. tree →
• A blue whale is a giant of the sea. tree →
• We saw a giant tortoise at the zoo. tree →
• That's a giant sandwich! tree →
• Jupiter is a gas giant. tree →
• The friendly dog is a gentle giant. tree →
• Learning to read was a giant step for my sister. tree →
• The Giant's Causeway is in Northern Ireland. tree →
• 'Greater than who?' asked the giant. tree →

note

Plural giants. Pronounced «JY-ant». Giants in stories are not real; very tall real people are just tall. «Gigantic» is the adjective meaning extremely large.

In the corpora

• Chatbots run on giant computers in data centres; the words appearing one by one is just how the answer is shown.
• In the 1933 film King Kong the giant gorilla was a small model moved by hand a tiny bit at a time.
• Wetlands soak up flood water like giant sponges and let it out slowly, and reed roots trap mud and clean the water.
• Jonathan, a giant tortoise on the island of St Helena, hatched around 1832 and is the oldest known living land animal.
• Sperm whales dive deep to hunt giant squid, and many sperm whales carry round scars left by the squid's suckers.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «giant» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.