(n.) An extinct, hairy, maned elephant (Elephas primigenius), of enormous size, remains of which are found in the northern parts of both continents. The last of the race, in Europe, were coeval with prehistoric man.
(a.) Resembling the mammoth in size; very large; gigantic; as, a mammoth ox.
Example Sentences:
(1) In overturning the fine, the court today found that the commission had long "practiced restraint" in exercising its authority to sanction broadcasters for indecent content, and that the mammoth fine was an improper departure from that.
(2) Photograph: Alamy The Devils Postpile, near Mammoth Lakes on the east side of Yosemite, looks as if it might have been created by some satanic sculptor, but really it's just one of the world's best examples of columnar basalt, a similar geological feature to the Giants Causeway in Northern Ireland.
(3) Two mammoth C17 military transport aircraft were on the tarmac, one of which landed in front of us, the other unloading jeeps and armoured vehicles.
(4) The Central Commission for Discipline Inspection said only that he was under investigation, but the website of the People's Daily, the official party newspaper, drew links to Ji's oversight of mammoth infrastructure projects in the city and his connections to a detained construction tycoon.
(5) Although EU member states will provide more than half the staff, debt-ridden Athens faces a mammoth task in getting 1,500 staff in place at a time when public sector recruitment is frozen.
(6) Looking beyond the liberation ceremony, the NTC faces a mammoth task.
(7) Another mammoth playoff effort by Houston and it is they who will face the winners of New York Red Bulls vs DC United in the Eastern Conference final.
(8) 3.49am BST Rangers 2-2 Kings, 4:45, 3rd period Yet another turnover by Giradi and big Jeff Carter is skating in front of the net - he unleashes a mammoth shot that's high and wide!
(9) DNA was isolated from tissue samples of several mammoth specimens, radiocarbon dated between 10,000 and 53,000 years old.
(10) Deep inside these caves, however, their minds moved to different matters and artists concentrated instead on the more majestic animals – mammoths and woolly rhinos – that then populated the Dordogne.
(11) The humanitarian system: 'A mammoth machinery losing track of what it is for' Read more Now we must turn these commitments into action.
(12) Other artefacts from the site include an exquisitely carved mammoth ivory spearhead.
(13) Former schemes were tiny but this one is mammoth, the debt kept cunningly off the public borrowing books (which the Office for National Statistics allowed; it's said the Treasury was amazed).
(14) After the biggest debt write-down in the history of world finance and two EU-IMF-sponsored bailouts worth a mammoth €240bn (£190bn), Greece is still far from being saved and, worse, is slipping inexorably into social meltdown with its political arena ever more radicalised.
(15) Even now, there is a sense that it could go either way, that we might pass this mammoth test or flunk it.
(16) To do so would be a mammoth task: 300 hours of video are uploaded to the site every minute, which would require more than 50,000 full-time staff doing nothing but watching videos for eight hours a day.
(17) The new system was devised under Labour, but campaigners blame this government for rolling it out nationwide last year, beginning the mammoth task of retesting all 1.6 million incapacity benefit claimants, at a rate of 11,000 a week, before the system was ready.
(18) Other economic data from China has underscored the country’s mammoth task of rebalancing the economy away from reliance on its vast manufacturing sector and exports to a more diverse mix.
(19) Mancini has a clause in his £35m, five-year contract that following his removal ensures he will not receive a mammoth payoff from City akin to that which José Mourinho can expect if removed by Real Madrid as their coach.
(20) It would then launch a rights issue at €0.05 a share, well below the current price of €0.30, to give bondholders a cash top-up payment, while repaying some of its mammoth bank debts with the €200m proceeds of its continuing disposals programme.
Mastodon
Definition:
(n.) An extinct genus of mammals closely allied to the elephant, but having less complex molar teeth, and often a pair of lower, as well as upper, tusks, which are incisor teeth. The species were mostly larger than elephants, and their romains occur in nearly all parts of the world in deposits ranging from Miocene to late Quaternary time.
Example Sentences:
(1) Rincón lists his most significant findings with the contagious enthusiasm of a child reciting the cast of the Ice Age movies: the giant femur of a six-tonne mastodon, a giant ground sloth, a 10-ft pelican, caimans the size of buses and the almost intact skull of a sabre-toothed tiger.
(2) Viewers may have tuned in to watch Feist or Bon Iver (or even "sludge" metallers Mastodon), but time seemed to stand still when La Havas took the stage.
(3) Nesta has worked with the centre for the advancement of sustainable medical innovation and Mastodon C to learn more about the take up of innovations by GP practices in England.
(4) A few months ago, a well-publicised paper claimed that the great beasts of the Americas – mammoths and mastodons, giant ground sloths, lions and sabretooths, eight-foot beavers, a bird with a 26-foot wingspan – could not have been exterminated by humans, because the fossil evidence for their extinction marginally pre-dates the evidence for human arrival .
(5) 3.50am BST Gary, meanwhile, opted for the "Mastodon" , which is only slightly more recognizable as a burger.
(6) In the Americas, alongside mastodons, mammoths, four-tusked and spiral-tusked elephants, there was a beaver the size of a black bear: eight feet from nose to tail.
(7) Here's some new sun-kissed indie rock from Avi Buffalo… …Some new imperious prog-metal from Mastodon… …and some new "dilapidated house" from Gut Nose.