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Giant and Dwarf Definitions

Giant

A person or thing of great size.

Dwarf

A person with a usually genetic disorder resulting in atypically short stature and often disproportionate limbs.

Giant

A person or thing of extraordinary power, significance, or importance
A giant in the field of physics.
Automotive industry giants.

Dwarf

An atypically small animal or plant.

Giant

Greek Mythology One of a race of humanlike beings of enormous strength and stature who were destroyed in battle with the Olympians.

Dwarf

A small creature resembling a human, often having magical powers, appearing in legends and fairy tales.
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Giant

A being in folklore or myth similar to one of these beings.

Dwarf

A dwarf star.

Giant

A gymnastic maneuver in which the body is swung, fully extended, around a horizontal bar.

Dwarf

To check the natural growth or development of; stunt
"The oaks were dwarfed from lack of moisture" (John Steinbeck).

Giant

Marked by exceptionally great size, magnitude, or power
A giant wave.
A giant impact.

Dwarf

To cause to appear small by comparison
"Together these two big men dwarfed the tiny Broadway office" (Saul Bellow).
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Giant

A mythical human of very great size.

Dwarf

To become stunted or grow smaller.

Giant

(mythology) Specifically:

Dwarf

(mythology) Any member of a race of beings from (especially Scandinavian and other Germanic) folklore, usually depicted as having some sort of supernatural powers and being skilled in crafting and metalworking, often as short with long beards, and sometimes as clashing with elves.

Giant

Any of the gigantes, the race of giants in the Greek mythology.

Dwarf

A person of short stature, often one whose limbs are disproportionately small in relation to the body as compared with typical adults, usually as the result of a genetic condition.
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Giant

A jotun.

Dwarf

An animal, plant or other thing much smaller than the usual of its sort.
Dwarf tree
Dwarf honeysuckle

Giant

A very tall and large person.

Dwarf

(star) A star of relatively small size.

Giant

A tall species of a particular animal or plant.

Dwarf

Miniature.
The specimen is a very dwarf form of the plant.
It is possible to grow the plants as dwarf as one desires.

Giant

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

Dwarf

(transitive) To render (much) smaller, turn into a dwarf (version).

Giant

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

Dwarf

(transitive) To make appear (much) smaller, puny, tiny.
The newly-built skyscraper dwarfs all older buildings in the downtown skyline.

Giant

A very large organisation.
The retail giant is set to acquire two more struggling high-street chains.

Dwarf

(transitive) To make appear insignificant.
Bach dwarfs all other composers.

Giant

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

Dwarf

(intransitive) To become (much) smaller.

Giant

(gymnastics) A maneuver involving a full rotation around an axis while fully extended.

Dwarf

To hinder from growing to the natural size; to make or keep small; to stunt.

Giant

Very large.

Dwarf

An animal or plant which is much below the ordinary size of its species or kind.

Giant

A man of extraordinari bulk and stature.
Giants of mighty bone and bold emprise.

Dwarf

A diminutive human being, small in stature due to a pathological condition which causes a distortion of the proportions of body parts to each other, such as the limbs, torso, and head. A person of unusually small height who has normal body proportions is usually called a midget.

Giant

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

Dwarf

A small, usually misshapen person, typically a man, who may have magical powers; mythical dwarves were often depicted as living underground in caves.

Giant

Any animal, plant, or thing, of extraordinary size or power.

Dwarf

To hinder from growing to the natural size; to make or keep small; to stunt.
Even the most common moral ideas and affections . . . would be stunted and dwarfed, if cut off from a spiritual background.

Giant

Like a giant; extraordinary in size, strength, or power; as, giant brothers; a giant son.

Dwarf

To become small; to diminish in size.
Strange power of the world that, the moment we enter it, our great conceptions dwarf.

Giant

Any creature of exceptional size

Dwarf

A person who is abnormally small

Giant

A person of exceptional importance and reputation

Dwarf

A legendary creature resembling a tiny old man; lives in the depths of the earth and guards buried treasure

Giant

An unusually large enterprise;
Walton built a retail giant

Dwarf

Make appear small by comparison;
This year's debt dwarves that of last year

Giant

A very large person; impressive in size or qualities

Dwarf

Check the growth of;
The lack of sunlight dwarfed these pines

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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