What's the difference between behemoth and giant?

Behemoth


Definition:

  • (n.) An animal, probably the hippopotamus, described in Job xl. 15-24.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The R&D team at Unilever, the British-Dutch behemoth that makes 40% of the ice creams we eat in the UK – Magnum, Ben & Jerry's, Cornetto and Carte D'Or among them – has invested heavily to create products that are both healthier and creamier.
  • (2) The blog, which used to chronicle the discoveries OkCupid made by observing its users’ behaviour, has been mothballed for three years, since OkCupid was purchased by dating behemoth Match.com in February 2011.
  • (3) The tech behemoth reported strong sales of its signature phone in its third-quarter financial report – fully 47.5m iPhones, up more than a third year-over-year, for a net revenue of $31.4bn.
  • (4) To be in the bowels of West Ham’s London Stadium last week was to experience the distilled essence of the modern, multi-billion pound Premier League behemoth.
  • (5) Later, Lord Birt said he admired the "bold, buccaneering spirit" of Rupert Murdoch but warned that Sky was "a financial behemoth now dwarfing other players, including the BBC, financially".
  • (6) Over time, this first wave of dating sites began to be subsumed and crushed by the behemoths: Udate, match.com, datingdirect.com , offering simple functionality, instant messaging features and lots of room for photographs.
  • (7) What's really surprising is that the No 1 British act in America isn't Elton John or Paul McCartney or any of those obvious British behemoths abroad (although Irish band U2 did come in higher and Coldplay haven't released anything recently).
  • (8) Dahl’s heroine, Sophie, is a lonely young girl plucked from her bed in an orphanage by the titular behemoth, and carried off to Giant Land, his home, lest she alert the normal world to the presence of giants.
  • (9) The past few years have seen unprecedented consolidation between insurance companies as they’ve merged and become behemoths.
  • (10) Twelve months ago, Murdoch characterised the publicly funded BBC as a threat to the rest of the industry, a behemoth that distorts every market it enters, from magazines to websites.
  • (11) But the past weeks saw several signs that the network he turned into a ratings behemoth was cooling in its support.
  • (12) Presented as a benevolent behemoth of fast-track regeneration, the Games were supposed to leave behind a shiny new world of 12,000 homes and 10,000 jobs, set amid the rolling hills of the largest new park in Europe.
  • (13) Europe can’t expect its digital talent to take on the Googles, Facebooks, Amazons and Apples without some assurance that law will prevent the behemoths from handing them an offer they can’t refuse: be acquired, pay hefty fees for ads or placement, or risk total obscurity.
  • (14) The reality is the Democratic Senate and the administration have been involved in this at every level.” Louise Slaughter, ranking Democrat on the House rules committee, argued the “behemoth” of a bill was “submitted in the dark of night at the last minute in the hope that we would not find out what was in it.” “The House of Representatives is about to show us the worst of government for the rich and powerful,” said Senator Elizabeth Warren in a speech on Wednesday that served to rally opposition.
  • (15) This vast scale has given it an air of an unstoppable behemoth trampling over rivals and across borders.
  • (16) The company responsible for the the Charge HR , the Surge and the eponymous Fitbit Tracker is the behemoth of the $3bn fitness tracking industry with a 68% share of the market, but is it worth the valuation?
  • (17) I would rather they actually contract out to a large number of smaller production companies rather than have a behemoth themselves,” Bridgen said.
  • (18) Since 2007 the price of food in real terms increased by 12% across the board, while the buying power of the behemoth retailers allowed them to push the prices paid to farmers – whether traditional or organic – ever closer to a bankruptcy cliff.
  • (19) It’s possible Mary Berry is in fact a trojan behemoth, and viewers might wonder what dark secrets she’s hiding as a highly strung web administrator from Kettering furiously puts the finishing touches to a multi-tiered woodland-themed Genoese sponge.
  • (20) The NRA’s commitment to Trump was underscored when Chris Cox, the NRA’s top lobbyist gave a primetime speech at the GOP convention this summer, a first for the increasingly GOP-oriented pro-gun lobbying behemoth.

Giant


Definition:

  • (n.) A man of extraordinari bulk and stature.
  • (n.) A person of extraordinary strength or powers, bodily or intellectual.
  • (n.) Any animal, plant, or thing, of extraordinary size or power.
  • (a.) Like a giant; extraordinary in size, strength, or power; as, giant brothers; a giant son.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Implantation of the mouse embryo involves the invasion of the secondary trophoblast giant cells of the ectoplacental cone (EPC) into the uterine decidua.
  • (2) The PUP founder made the comments at a voters’ forum and press conference during an open day held at his Palmer Coolum Resort, where he invited the electorate to see his giant robotic dinosaur park, memorabilia including his car collection and a concert by Dean Vegas, an Elvis impersonator.
  • (3) A 25-year-old woman presented with a giant leiomyoma in the lower third of the esophagus.
  • (4) The authors recently observed 2 elderly female patients with ischemic pain of the upper extremity as the first manifestation of giant cell arteritis.
  • (5) Critics of wind power peddle the same old myths about investment in new energy sources adding to families' fuel bills , preferring to pick a fight with people concerned about the environment, than stand up to vested interests in the energy industry, for the hard-pressed families and pensioners being ripped off by the energy giants.
  • (6) The aim was to clarify the nature of their constituent cells, specifically the giant ganglion-like cells and spindle cells, and to discuss the implications for histogenesis.
  • (7) In the synovia, size and number of the multinuclear giant cells are less pronounced.
  • (8) October 27, 2013 7.27pm GMT Around the league And here’s how things look elsewhere, as we head into the fourth quarter: Cowboys 13-7 Lions Browns 17-20 Chiefs Dolphins 17-20 Patriots Bills 10-28 Saints Giants 15-0 Eagles 49ers 35-10 Jaguars 7.25pm GMT End of 3rd quarter: 49ers 35-10 Jaguars The quarter ends with the Jaguars facing a third-and-one at their own 32.
  • (9) The authors consider giant cell myocarditis to be one type of sarcoidosis occurring in the heart.
  • (10) The presence of alkaline phosphatase-positive cells forming woven bone in giant cell granulomas suggests that osteoblasts are present in the lesion.
  • (11) In fact, the lowest-rated game of last year's World Series between the Giants and the Tigers edged out the opening round of the draft by only 2.4 million viewers.
  • (12) Radiographically the bone cyst distinguishes itself by its central localisation in the metaphysis, where as the giant cell tumor has an excentric position in the epiphysis with a tendency of extending into the metaphysis.
  • (13) This may be one mechanism in the development of a giant vesical calculus.
  • (14) The cells with the polyribosomes contained the giant mitochondria.
  • (15) The skin lesions resembled disseminated subacute lupus erythematosus on clinical examination, but actinic granuloma or annular elastolytic giant cell granuloma was seen in biopsy specimens of the lesions.
  • (16) The clinical and pathological features of a patient with giant cell arteritis of the uterus and ovaries are described.
  • (17) Given how Bank forecasts have been all over the shop, it is possible that the Old Lady's spreadsheet wizards could scupper Mr Carney's plans by spying a speck of price pressure and panicking about it turning into a giant inflationary boulder.
  • (18) Although the intraoperative cytologic examination showed a picture suggestive of malignancy, including giant cells and atypical mitotic figures, the clinical and radiologic history militated against a malignant nature for the lesion, which was thus classified as a low-grade giant-cell astrocytoma.
  • (19) Anthopleurin-A produced two distinct responses in crayfish giant axons: depolarization and prolongation of action potentials.
  • (20) In some areas of the ligament, extracellular plasma membrane-invested matrix vesicles and thick wall-bound matrix giant bodies with or without mineralized deposits were present.