giant vs scant

giant

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

  • A maneuver involving a full rotation around an axis while fully extended. 

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

  • A mythical human of very great size. 

  • A tall species of a particular animal or plant. 

  • A very tall and large person. 

  • A very large organisation. 

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

  • A jotun. 

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

adj
  • Very large. 

scant

verb
  • To fail, or become less; to scantle. 

  • To limit in amount or share; to stint. 

adj
  • Not full, large, or plentiful; scarcely sufficient; scanty; meager. 

  • Sparing; parsimonious; chary. 

det
  • Very little, very few. 

noun
  • A sheet of stone. 

  • Scarcity; lack. 

  • A small piece or quantity. 

  • A slightly thinner measurement of a standard wood size. 

  • A block of stone sawn on two sides down to the bed level. 

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