different between robust vs giant

English

Etymology

From Latin r?bustus, from r?bur, r?bus (“strength, hard timber, oak”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /????b?st/, /???b?st/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?o??b?st/
• Rhymes: -?st
• Hyphenation: ro?bust

Adjective

robust (comparative robuster or more robust, superlative robustest or most robust) (see usage notes)

1. Evincing strength and health; strong.

   He was a robust man of six feet four.

   robust health

   A robust wall was put up.

   • 1869, Anthony Trollope, Phineas Finn

     She was stronger, larger, more robust physically than he had hitherto conceived.

2. Violent; rough; rude.
3. Requiring strength or vigor

   robust employment

4. Sensible (of intellect etc.); straightforward, not given to or confused by uncertainty or subtlety
5. (systems engineering) Designed or evolved in such a way as to be resistant to total failure despite partial damage.
6. (software engineering) Resistant or impervious to failure regardless of user input or unexpected conditions.
7. (statistics) Not greatly influenced by errors in assumptions about the distribution of sample errors.

Usage notes

• "More" and "most robust" are much more common than the forms ending in "-er" or "-est".

Derived terms

• robustness

Translations

See also

• Robust statistics on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• brotus, or bust, turbos

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin r?bustus, first attested circa 1400.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ru?bust/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ro?bust/

Adjective

robust (feminine robusta, masculine plural robusts or robustos, feminine plural robustes)

1. robust (evincing strength and health)

   Synonyms: fort, vigorós

Derived terms

• robustament
• robustesa

Further reading

• “robust” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “robust” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “robust” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

References

German

Etymology

From Latin r?bustus, from r?bur, r?bus (“strength, hard timber, oak”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?o?b?st/
• Hyphenation: ro?bust

Adjective

robust (comparative robuster, superlative am robustesten)

1. robust

Declension

Derived terms

• Robustheit

Further reading

• “robust” in Duden online

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin robustus

Adjective

robust (neuter singular robust, definite singular and plural robuste)

1. robust, sturdy

References

• “robust” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin robustus

Adjective

robust (neuter singular robust, definite singular and plural robuste)

1. robust, sturdy

References

• “robust” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Romanian

Etymology

From French robuste.

Adjective

robust m or n (feminine singular robust?, masculine plural robu?ti, feminine and neuter plural robuste)

1. robust

Declension

English

Alternative forms

• giaunt (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English geaunt, geant, from Old French geant, gaiant (Modern French géant) from Vulgar Latin *gag?s, gagant-, from Latin gig?s, gigant-, from Ancient Greek ????? (gígas, “giant”) Cognate to giga- (“1,000,000,000”).

Displaced native Middle English eten, ettin (from Old English ?oten), and Middle English eont (from Old English ent).

Compare Modern English ent (“giant tree-man”) and Old English þyrs (“giant, monster, demon”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d?a?.?nt/
  • (dialectal, nonstandard) IPA^(key): /?d?a?nt/
• Rhymes: -a??nt
• Hyphenation: gi?ant

Noun

giant (plural giants)

1. A mythical human of very great size.
2. (mythology) Specifically:
   1. Any of the gigantes, the race of giants in the Greek mythology.
   2. A jotun.
3. A very tall and large person.
4. A tall species of a particular animal or plant.
5. (astronomy) A star that is considerably more luminous than a main sequence star of the same temperature (e.g. red giant, blue giant).
6. (computing) An Ethernet packet that exceeds the medium's maximum packet size of 1,518 bytes.
7. A very large organisation.
8. A person of extraordinary strength or powers, bodily or intellectual.
   • 1988, Thomas Dolby, "Airhead":

     she's not the intellectual giant

Synonyms

See also: Thesaurus:giant

Translations

Adjective

giant (not comparable)

1. Very large.

Synonyms

• colossal, enormous, gigantic, immense, prodigious, vast
• See also Thesaurus:gigantic

Antonyms

• dwarf
• midget

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• TA'ing, TAing, Taing, anti-g, tagin, tangi, tiang, tinga