Which is bigger, giant or enormous?
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Calling 4 year-old Gabi stupid for trying to make sense of the world and what puzzles her in it is utterly ridiculous. Adults need to take children's curiosity seriously and help them understand and Gabi's mother is simply sharing Gabi's problem and wondering aloud how best to do that. That doesn't make her mother stupid, either.\n\nWhat follows is addressed to Mum but contains a few things children may know and recognise, so as to help Gabi learn and understand, by building on what she knows already.\n\nBut I will say this to Gabi: keep on asking questions and keep on puzzling things out. Keep bothering mum with all your questions and if she doesnt know the answer, she can always ask everyone on Yahoo Answers to help her.\n\n==\n\nThese are not precise terms so there is no universal agreement on what they mean, whereas something prefaced giga- (eg gigawatt) is known and agreed to be a thousand times (in computing 1,024 times)  bigger than something prefaced mega- (eg mega-watt), and something prefaced tera- is a thousand times bigger than something prefaced giga-.\n\nSimilarly kilometre, metre, centimetre, millimetre are defined in various powers of 10 in relation to one another, as are seconds, nano-seconds and pica-seconds. Microscope, microwave, and microscopic are less precise however,\n\nIt is the difference between calibrated measurement using international standard units and "subjective" measurement of size, which involves an "impression" of relative size, like when a fisherman conveys how big the pike he caught was, with his hands (and the listener allows for exaggeration and boasting in scaling that down a bit).\n\nEach has its place in our vocabulary. Sometimes we need to be precise, sometimes we don't. \n\nIf I asked a painter and decorator to quote me for painting my living room, and he/she asked me how big the room was, before giving a quote, and I said it was a medium-sized room, he/she is not going to be able to quote me on that, is he/she? Other than to say "my charges are reasonable". \n\nIf I then got uptight and said "what do you mean by reasonable?" I can't really be surprised if I get the reply "what do you mean by medium?"\n\nBoth materials and labour are going to be proportional to square footage and I need to be precise (the room is 15 foot by 12 foot and is nine foot high) so he/she can be precise about what a ceiling of 180 square feet and walls of 486 square feet are going to cost me).\n\n==\n\nThough megawatt, megabyte, etc are precise, mega can be used loosely and imprecisely too. Megastar bigger than superstar. Mega! as slang for stupendous.\n\nThe reason we have so many words, meaning much the same thing as one another, to now have to work out a pecking order between them, is the many different groups of invaders who invaded England and the many different linguistic roots of the English language as a result.\n\nIn Gastronomy, "huge" is probably as big as a meal and its portions gets. "Enormous" would probably only apply to a sumptuous banqiet, ie not just the portions were large, with several courses but the guests tucking into them were not easily countable, and it was a huge banqueting suite it was held in. There is only so much one plate and one stomach can hold, in comparison.\n\nIn Astronomy, the word "vast" when referring to distances eg between galaxies or the size of the universe is perhaps the "biggest". Also "giant" (as a noun) has a particular meaning in Astronomy as regards a certain type of star. Betelgeuse (in Orion) is a red giant. Its diameter is the size of the orbit of Jupiter, dwarfing our sun. That sounds bigger to me than "enormous" conveys.\n\nHuman "giants" are probably not much more more than twice the height of human "dwarves" however, so the meaning of a word can depend on the context in which it is used. But Roald Dah
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The "big" ship in the "word"?
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the largest living thing is not plant or animal it is a fungus that covers 2200 acres of land and is 2400 years old in Malheur National Forest in the Blue Mountains of eastern Oregon. the species name is Armillaria ostoyae
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Much larger.  It is a gas planet, where Mars is a rock planet.
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The largest extant organism is the honey mushroom which can spread 2,200 acres (1,665 football fields) underground.  The second largest living organism is General Sherman, a giant sequoia. It's 272ft tall, has a circumference of 109ft at its base, and weighs nearly 1,400lb.
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a giga is a billion, and kilo is a thousand, so there are a million kg in a gigagram, for example
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"A huge (enormous) kiss"\n\na big kiss would be "un beso grande"
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No, onto bigger and better\nb
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largest with all the ice\n\n2nd largest without all the ice
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The term "largest" needs clarifying as the tallest may not be the heaviest, longest etc.\n\nHowever I would suggest the Carribou (?) \n\nSurely the Grizzly lives in the mixed forests of N America and is not native to the pure pine forests of Norway etc.
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I don't know about the biggest, but hands down, the best is D.B. Cooper.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D.B._Cooper
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The largest carnivorous dinosaus was the Spinosaurus aegypticus (remember the one with sails on its back in Jurassic Park III?). It is estimated to have been 16-18 metres long and 6 metres tall at the hips and would've probably weighed somewhere around 9 tons.\n\nRecently, a theropod dinosaur larger than t-rex was discovered, though it wasn't as big as Spinosaurus.\n\nThe largest confirmed dinosaur of all times is a sauropod named Supersaurus(about 35 metres long) though there are reports that a species of sauropd - Amphicoelias is longer than fifty metres.
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Those are most likely tree.  The largest tree, the General Sherman, a giant redwood in California, weights as much as 15 blue whales.\nI presume the second and 3rd largest are not much smaller, the General Sherman is not the only giant sequoia in that forest.\nIf you insist on animals, then the largest blue whale and two slightly smaller blue whales would fit the bill.\nThe attached link will tell you more; take your pick as a function of which criteria you choose.
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Depends on what your definition of big is.  Anything beyond D is getting to be grotesque, b/c are the best, but the true measure of quality has nothing to do with size but is shape and how they are holding.
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I think so or how would they be so big
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Do you mean heaviest?  Currently, it has to be that new guy....I don't remember his name.....that is bigger than the Giant.
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Unimaginably big, everthing.\n\nThere's three words.