giant vs snub

giant

adj
  • Very large. 

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. 

snub

verb
  • To slight, ignore or behave coldly toward someone. 

  • To check; to reprimand. 

  • To halt the movement of a rope etc by turning it about a cleat or bollard etc; to secure a vessel in this manner. 

  • To turn down insultingly; to dismiss. 

  • To sob with convulsions. 

  • To stub out (a cigarette etc). 

  • To clip or break off the end of; to check or stunt the growth of. 

noun
  • A deliberate affront or slight. 

  • A sudden checking of a cable or rope. 

adj
  • Derived from a simpler polyhedron by the addition of extra triangular faces. 

  • Conspicuously short. 

  • Flat and broad, with the end slightly turned up. 

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