(a.) Pertaining to the elephant, or resembling an elephant (commonly, in size); hence, huge; immense; heavy; as, of elephantine proportions; an elephantine step or tread.
Example Sentences:
(1) My biggest sin is that I have an elephantine memory – I remembered far back, and I didn't forget his talents."
(2) In case his writers are wondering what word to use instead, he offers a "handy list of synonyms" that includes "huge", "prodigious", "elephantine" and the very adult Swiftian term "Brobdingnagian".
(3) Support for shale gas Plans for a new nuclear power station at Hinkley in Somerset have also come under fire recently, with the Conservative peer Lord Howell of Guildford warning of rising costs of the “elephantine” project and HSBC criticising the £25bn cost for Hinkley’s new reactors .
(4) Modern Aswan sits on the bank of the Nile, but Yebu, site of the area's first settlement, is on the adjacent Elephantine Island.
(5) Club Med moved out, the French Sofitel chain manages the Old Cataract Hotel – or will do when it reopens next January – and the Swiss-run Mövenpick does its best with a concrete block on Elephantine Island.
(6) Bet el Kerem ( betelkerem.com ; doubles from £26) is one of the guesthouses on Elephantine Island.
(7) He depicted a legal aid budget grown out of control, one whose elephantine annual spend of £914m could no longer be defended.
(8) They suck money from consumer spending and redirect it to oil-exporting countries, which typically hoard it in elephantine foreign exchange reserves or unspent bank deposits.
(9) For in all this no one mentions the elephantine figure in the room – America's debt, last estimated to be $16,699tn .
(10) The image of Aunt Jemima, the elephantine mammy figure whose image was emblazoned on a pancake mix, seems to be the most frequently reproduced icon.
Jumbo
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Scintigraphic pictures of the uterine cavity and oviducts were obtained with a Jumbo Toshiba gamma-camera; they were subsequently analysed by an Informatek SIMIS-3 data processing system.
(2) Chief executive Louis Gallois said Beijing's refusal to allow Hong Kong Airlines to complete a $4bn order for the A380 super-jumbos amounted to "retaliation measures" over the policy, which came into force at the beginning of the year.
(3) But normally, shaven-headed and shaven-faced, he could pass for a jumbo-sized Bob Crow .
(4) Jumbo Records in Leeds has been in business for 43 years.
(5) Talked up as "Britain's proudest creation", it was housed in a tent so big and strong that its roof could, apparently, support the weight of a jumbo jet.
(6) Another group of art students is in, and Wilson is giving them a talk, telling them how a jumbo jet crash inspector visited and identified at once that the plane had been crushed deliberately rather than crashed - the sort of technical detail that he appreciates.
(7) Hofland gave the LottoNL-Jumbo team their first victory of the season as he edged out IAM Cycling’s Matteo Pelucchi on the final stretch in the shadow of York racecourse.
(8) He has applied the same philosophy to a series of books that have included such unlikely successes as an account of the life of maverick journalist and Labour politician Tom Driberg, a biography of Marx that has been translated into 25 languages, and a tour d'horizon of contemporary counter-enlightenment thinking, How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World, that led the charge of books reasserting the primacy of reason.
(9) At Jumbo Records, seven bands will be playing in a pop-up venue put together in a vacant unit next door.
(10) This is better than the Jumbo Jet, which can only fly for 12 h.
(11) She could see a hole that ripped open at the back of the jumbo jet where the bathroom had been and carried her son to safety.
(12) Rolls-Royce, which makes engines for Boeing’s 787 Dreamliners and Airbus A380 superjumbos, has been betting on wide-bodied aircraft and by 2020 half the world’s jumbo jets will be powered by its engines.
(13) I always remember the startled look of the platitudinous young vicar who visited our house after my grandad died, when my mum said, "Don't come round here with your mumbo-jumbo.
(14) The world he inadvertently summoned into being persists - in nuclear arsenals, and 747 jumbo jets and B52s, the direct descendants of the Boeing B29.
(15) The high fuel costs and narrow profit margins that characterised much of the previous ten years made an underoccupied jumbo economically unviable, and airlines have taken to scheduling multiple slots on popular routes to meet consumer demand, rather than one big take-off.
(16) Jumbo problems The most interesting part of the whole affair is what it says about all forms of technological regulation in the future.
(17) gets such a massive response they'll need a Jumbo Jet, not a tour bus.
(18) Finally grounded in 2006 after a period flying under the European Aviation banner, parts of this jumbo have been turned into the signature metal tags of the environmental campaign.
(19) Wouldn't it be better to accept it now rather than let this defendant get tangled up in a messy trial for the sake of some legal mumbo-jumbo?"
(20) It comes at the same time as farmers are stepping up exports of live breeding pigs to China, packing up to 900 at a time into a jumbo jet for a 12-hour non-stop flight.