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- n. Alternative capitalization of Goliath
Examples
“My summit goliath is easy to set up and extremely comfortable ..”
“Of all the venture-funded companies to characterize as a goliath, Redfin must be the last choice.”
Redfin Corporate Blog: Notes on Redfin, technology, real estate and life at a startup.
“You put on the armor of the Lord, and fight "goliath" for your life.”
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“Although the "goliath" catfish normally exists on a diet of other fish, some of them have been caught with parts of monkeys in their stomachs, according to the WWF.”
“He watched Bruce pick up his machine as well, and looked once again at the great goliath and its grand trunk as wide as five men together.”
“It was a legal arm's length away in Chengdu, China, run by a goliath called Hon Hai Precision Industry, a Taiwanese company that's become one of the world's biggest employers and contract manufacturers.”
The Wall Street Journal: Measuring the Human Cost of an iPad Made in China
“September 21st, 2009 12: 47 pm ET cnn - epic fail the whole story is going to play out like david and goliath. the BIG story i mean. the little people who play be the rules, the ones you always make fun of .. they have faith and hope too. just not in mr obama.”
“With the companies all worth around $2 billion or less, any would be easy for a tech goliath to gobble up.”
“Some have suggested it was a goliath grouper formerly known as jewfish.”
Think Progress » Sarah Palin calls global warming studies ‘snake oil science.’
“No republican or democrat for that matter have had the balls to take on the entrenched goliath of the health insurance lobby.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘goliath’.
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Genes
Interesting gene names. Some of these may have changed recently (to something less offensive/funny).
http://www.genenames.org/
tinman, agnostic, dreadlocks, Van Gogh, fruitless, lava lamp, ariadne, cheap date, ken and barbie, I'm not dead yet, I'm not dead yet 2, manic fringe and 1192 more... -
Vocab++
Words as I learn them.
fetid, mezzanine, hiatus, austerity, subliminal, resplendent, implacable, impugn, debase, exiguous, cirque, holster and 2538 more...
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Ships
All of which are mentioned in O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin novels, someplace or other. Most are British navy ships, some are French navy, and others aren't either one.
See also the list Sh...franklin, surprise, agamemnon, vanguard, truelove, minerva, diane, victory, sophie, cacafuego, euryalus, alastor and 382 more...
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Bird Wirds: Adjectives
Adjectives used in actual (non-taxonomic) bird names, past and present.
roseate, glossy, whooping, neotropic, pelagic, ferruginous, crested, whiskered, marbled, tufted, horned, eared and 818 more...
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Big Words
cyclopean, antaean, titanic, brobdingnagian, goliath, leviathan, colossal, elephantine, monstrous, behemoth, gargantuan, herculean and 23 more...
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Names of Actual Pets I Have Known
With thanks to AbraxasZugzwang for the Aminals list.
je ne sais quoi, frito, stellaluna, stretch, zebedee, caspian wimblewether, shakazulu, finbar, elliott, captain crustacean, filbert, pfeffer and 33 more...
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Name Suggestions for Even Bigger SUVs...
Watch out, Hummer!
A companion list to Name Suggestions for Ultra-Compact Cars. :-) Sounds best when you preface each word with "the."behemoth, monstrosity, leviathan, goliath, colossus, brute, giant, mammoth, brobdingnagian, jumbo, bulk, elephant and 69 more...
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