different between slalom vs giant

English

Etymology

From Norwegian sla (“steep, hill side”) and låm (“trail”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: slä?-l?m, IPA^(key): /?sl??.l?m/
• Rhymes: -??l?m
• Hyphenation: sla?lom

Noun

slalom (countable and uncountable, plural slaloms)

1. (uncountable, sports) The sport of skiing in a zigzag course through gates. (Often used attributively)

2. (uncountable) Any similar activity on other vehicles, including canoes and water skis.
3. (countable, sports) A course used for the sport of slalom.

4. (countable, sports) A race or competition wherein participants each perform the sport of slalom.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

slalom (third-person singular simple present slaloms, present participle slaloming, simple past and past participle slalomed)

1. (intransitive) To race in a slalom.
2. (intransitive) To move in a slalom-like manner.
   • 1988, Edmund White, The Beautiful Room is Empty, New York: Vintage International, 1994, Chapter Three,

     Snow fell, swirled, slalomed past our windows.

   • 2013, Daniel Taylor, Steven Gerrard goal against Poland ensures England will go to World Cup (in The Guardian, 15 October 2013),^[1]

     Gerrard plainly had other ideas as he set off on that final, driving run into the opposition penalty area, slaloming between Kamil Glik and Grzegorz Wojtkowiak and getting his shot away as a third defender, Artur Jedzejczyk, and the goalkeeper, Wojciech Szczesny, tried to close him out.

Translations

Anagrams

• Mallos, Mollas, mollas, ollams

Czech

Noun

slalom m

1. slalom (sport of skiing in a zigzag course through gates)
2. slalom (zigzag activity on non-ski vehicles, including canoes and water skis)

   vodní slalom

Derived terms

• slalomá?

Further reading

• slalom in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• slalom in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sla.l?m/

Noun

slalom m (plural slaloms)

1. (sports) slalom (event in skiing, kayaking or other sports)

Derived terms

• slalomer
• slalomeur

Further reading

• “slalom” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Noun

slalom m (invariable)

1. (sports) slalom

Derived terms

• slalom gigante
• slalomeggiare
• slalomista
• slalomistico

Polish

Etymology

From Norwegian slalåm.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sla.l?m/

Noun

slalom m inan

1. (sports) slalom

Declension

Derived terms

• (nouns) slalomista, slalomistka, slalomowiec
• (adjective) slalomowy

Further reading

• slalom in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• slalom in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Noun

slalom m (plural slaloms or slalons)

1. (skiing) slalom (skiing in a zigzag course)

Romanian

Etymology

From French slalom.

Noun

slalom n (plural slalomuri)

1. slalom

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From German Slalom, English slalom.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sl?lom/
• Hyphenation: sla?lom

Noun

slàlom m (Cyrillic spelling ???????)

1. slalom

Declension

References

• “slalom” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal

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