(a.) Characteristic of Gargantua, a gigantic, wonderful personage; enormous; prodigious; inordinate.
Example Sentences:
(1) The world is in awe of China’s relentless capacity to produce gargantuan cities, each outdoing the most recent superlative that describes its predecessor.
(2) Behind the sedately revolving capsules of the London Eye, plucky local resident George Turner has been holding another gargantuan development machine to account in a David-and-Goliath planning battle that reached the High Court.
(3) That means reconsidering the ‘sacred cows’ of the political class, including overseas aid and the gargantuan scale of the welfare state.
(4) But it's fair to say a fondness for sniping games marks me out as a coward who'd rather take potshots from a distance than actually climb down from the tree and enter the fray like a man, a theory backed up by the fact that while I love sniping, I detest "stealth games" (because it's scary when you get caught) and "boss fights" where you have to battle some gargantuan show-off 10 times your height who keeps knocking you on your arse with his tail.
(5) The game combines elements of the first-person shooter (FPS) and role-playing game (RPG) genres into one gargantuan experience.
(6) The good news is that you don't have to travel to southern California to get a taste of 2014's blockbuster wannabes: a slew of trailers that debuted inside the San Diego Convention Centre 's gargantuan Hall H have now hit the web – and there's no need to dress up like Xena the warrior princess to watch them.
(7) The annual gatherings have grown from roughly 500 participants at the first official climate negotiations in Berlin in 1995 to sprawling jamborees – gargantuan rotating festivals of anything remotely associated with environmental causes or, increasingly, profit-making “green” enterprises.
(8) This deal-making, in which she forged alliances with the Nordic countries, signed deals with Tony Blair's Labour government and struck agreements with the Bretton Woods institutions, will stand her in good stead when she moves to the gargantuan, Chinese-built AU headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
(9) Just a million years earlier, the planet had been devastated by a gargantuan eruption of natural gas, which caused unprecedented greenhouse warming.
(10) An inquiry led by Lord Justice Leveson , meanwhile, held a spectacularly harsh light to the "ethics and practices" of the press and the politicians last summer and, in a gargantuan 1,987-page report in November, recommended a broad and complex system in which newspapers remained self-regulated but with a new body replacing the fatally criticised Press Complaints Commission and being recognised in law.
(11) Below, a gargantuan steel ring hovers 10 storeys above the ground, its perimeter adorned with metal spikes.
(12) I suppose the most humanitarian purpose of all would be to prevent the slaughter of innocents because the slaughter of innocents is what we have seen on a gargantuan scale in Syria and northern Iraq in the last few months,” he said.
(13) And then there’s the gargantuan American arsenal of weapons and the havoc wreaked with it.
(14) To One Love Manchester then, the gargantuan benefit concert in aid of the victims of the horrific terror attack in Manchester at the Ariana Grande gig in May .
(15) He is to blame for the gargantuan queues outside petrol stations."
(16) The gargantuan total, the first time a movie has ever opened north of $500m, was helped by a gigantic $204.6m US total and huge $100.8m Chinese bow, as well as $29.6m in the UK.
(17) Next season’s gargantuan Premier League television deal means promoted teams stand to benefit by a minimum of £170m – even the bottom club will receive just under £100m in broadcast and merit money followed by about £75m in parachute payments.
(18) The British parliament is then meant to “amend, repeal and improve” each law as necessary – a gargantuan task.
(19) When Huhne was one of the first cabinet ministers to settle at the end of September, the gargantuan challenges in his in-tray led people to assume he might have folded early rather than fought the good fight.
(20) At the time, the gargantuan listing valued the Switzerland-based company at about £37bn – despite its reputation for secrecy, and scepticism that it could maintain its huge trading profits.
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.