giant vs troll

giant

noun
  • A mythical human of very great size. 

  • 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 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. 

troll

noun
  • A supernatural being of varying size, now especially a grotesque humanoid creature living in caves or hills or under bridges. 

  • An instance of trolling, especially, in fishing, the trailing of a baited line. 

  • The act of moving round; routine; repetition. 

  • A song whose parts are sung in succession; a catch; a round. 

  • An ugly person of either sex, especially one seeking sexual experiences. 

  • A person who posts or says inflammatory, insincere, digressive, extraneous, or off-topic messages to provoke others on the Internet for their own personal amusement or to manipulate others' perception. 

  • Optical ejections from the top of the electrically active core regions of thunderstorms that are red in color that seem to occur after tendrils of vigorous sprites extend downward toward the cloud tops. 

verb
  • To trundle, to roll from side to side. 

  • To draw someone or something out, to entice, to lure as if with trailing bait. 

  • To saunter. 

  • To fish using a line and bait or lures trailed behind a boat similarly to trawling; to lure fish with bait. 

  • To fish in; to try to catch fish from. 

  • To post or make inflammatory or insincere statements so as to attempt to lure others into combative argument for purposes of personal entertainment or to manipulate others' perception, especially in an online community or discussion. 

  • To stroll about in order to find a sexual partner. 

  • To angle for with a trolling line, or with a hook drawn along the surface of the water; hence, to allure. 

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