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Definition: MASSY |
MASSYSuperlative1. Compacted into, or consisting of, a mass; having bulk and weight ot substance; ponderous; bulky and heavy; weight; heavy; as, a massy shield; a massy rock. |
Date "MASSY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1200. (references) |
Note: Massy \Mass"y\, adjective. [Comparative Massier; superlative Massiest.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Size | Adjective: large, big; great; (in quantity); considerable, bulky, voluminous, ample, massive, massy; capacious, comprehensive; spacious; mighty, towering, fine, magnificent. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: MASSY |
| English words defined with "MASSY": Massiness. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "MASSY": Massamore. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "MASSY": massiness. (references) |
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![]() | Cotton stockings. Ilona Massy wearing bright red, knee high socks, in ribbed lisle, which have been designed for active sports wear.Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Off his nut: "Gracious massy, I'se struck de comet!".Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| "MASSY" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "MASSY" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 3 | 202,518 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "MASSY" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Massy | Last name | 130 | 55,644 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
massy | 30 |
william massy | 5 |
massy neal | 5 |
luke massy | 4 |
harris massy | 4 |
harris massy tractor | 2 |
hall massy | 2 |
massy tadjedin | 2 |
inn massy | 2 |
massy and hotel | 2 |
massy shoes | 2 |
massy tractor | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "MASSY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | masiv (bulky, clump, mass, massif, massive). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | كبير (big, bulky, considerable, enormous, extent, formidable, full grown, grand, great, huge, immense, king size, large, magnificent, major, massive, senior, sizable, sweeping, tremendous, vast, voluminous, whacking, whopping). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | солиден (lusty, massive, portly, pucka, pukka, rugged, secure, solid, sound, steady, sterling, substantial, trustworthy, valid), тежък (cumbrous, dense, difficult, distressing, faint, grave, grievous, grinding, hammering, hard, heavy, hefty, high, hulking, labored, laborious, laboured, leaden, lumping, lumpish, lumpy, massive, muggy, onerous, painful, plodding, ponderous, robust, rugged, sad, severe, shrewd, sledgehammer, slow, smart, smashing, soggy, solemn, sore, stiff, stodgy, taxing, thorny, tight, tough, traumatic, trying, unwieldy, uphill, weighty), едър (big, bouncing, burly, coarse, full, gross, husky, large, massive, overblown, portly, solid, strapping, substantial, walloping). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | massif (mass, massif, massive), solide. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | massig (bulky, compact, huge, lumping, massive, thick). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | συμπαγήσ (compact, concrete, massive, solid, tubeless), ογκώδησ (bulky, hulking, hulky, massive, voluminous). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | masszív (massive, monolithic, ponderous). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | solido (austere, fast, firm, hard, solid, sound, stable, sturdy, substantial, tight, toughly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | どちら様 (bulky and heavy, heave-ho, heigh-hoh, hold on!, just a minute, massive, substantial, suddenly, to be deeply submerged, who are you?). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | どっしり (bulky and heavy, massive, substantial). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | assymay maciço (compact, lumpish, massive, solid, the solid), pesado (burdensome, cumbersome, cumbrous, drabbet, elephantine, gloomy forecast, gross, heavy, hefty, hulking, leaden, loin, lumbering, lumping, lumpish, massive, muff, muggy, onerous, oppressive, plop, ponderous, rigourous, slowpoke, sodden, soggy, sound, stodgy, stringent, tubby, unwieldy, weighty), fabricar em série (serialize). (various references) masiv (big, bulky, burly, fat, full, heap, heavy, massif, massive, massively, portly, rugged, solid, stout, substantial, unwieldy, voluminous, wholesale), mare (acred, adult, ample, big, boundless, brine, broad, bulky, deep, dense, enormous, famous, fat, flux, foam, gorgeous, grand, grandiose, great, gross, hard, heavy, high, howling, huge, hulking, illustrious, immense, important, keen, king size, large, large scale, long, loose, major, man-sized, mighty, open, pond, ponderous, pretty, renowned, rich, roomy, sea, sensible, severe, spacious, stupendous, tall, thick, thundering, vast, violent, voluminous, wide), solid (awfully, big, deep, durable, enduring, fast, firm, firmly, hard, hard and fast, hefty, massive, portly, profound, reliable, rocky, rugged, safe, secure, serious, solid, solidly, sound, soundly, Square, stable, sterling, stiff, stout, strapping, strong, tenable, tough, well knit), greu (annoying, arduous, awkward, burden, burdensome, busy, clumsy, dangerously, difficult, difficulty, fatiguing, gravely, grievous, hard, hardly, heavily, heavy, inconvenient, labored, laborious, laboured, leaden, lot, massive, near, onerous, oppressive, painful, parlous, precarious, punitive, reluctantly, scarcely, seriously, severe, solid, stiff, stodgy, stolid, strenuous, stuffy, ticklish, toilful, tough, troublesome, trying, uneasy, uphill, wearisome, weary, weight, weighty), greoi (artless, bearish, dull, elephantine, gawky, heavy, hulking, lubberly, lumpish, ponderous, slow, stodgy, stolid, ungainly, ungraceful, unwieldy, weighty). (various references) солидный (reputable, solid). (various references) masivan (massive, ponderous), obiman (ample, capacious, comprehensive, extensive, large, massive, spacious, voluminous), krupan (big, burly, husky, large, man-sized, massive, walloping). (various references) sólido (body, chunky, fast, filling, firm, fixed, hard, meaty, robust, solid, stable, stout, strong, sturdy, substantial, used to). (various references) tek parça halinde (in a single piece, massively), dev (colossal, colossus, cyclopean, giant, giantess, goliath, huge, kingsize, monster, titan). (various references) солідний (solid), масивний (bastard, beamy, heavy, hulking, massive, ponderous, solid). (various references) to lớn (bouncing, bulky, capacious, colossal, cyclopean, enourmous, enourmously, goodly, great, howling, huge, mammoth, massive, monster, titanic), chắc nặng thô. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Date | Source | Exodus Chapter 27, Verse 8 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Koilon sanidwton poihseiV auto kata to paradeicqen soi en tw orei outwV poihseiV auto |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Non solidum sed inane et cavum intrinsecus facies illud sicut tibi in monte monstratum est |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Thow shalt make it not massy, but with inne voyde, and with ynne holowy, as it is shewid to thee in the hil. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And make the altare holowe with bordes: euen as it was shewed the in the mount, so lett them make it, |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Hollow with boards shalt thou make it: as it was showed thee in the mount, so shall they make it. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Hollow with boards shalt thou make it: as it was shown thee on the mount, so shall they make it. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | The altar is to be hollow, boarded in with wood; make it from the design which you saw on the mountain. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Exodus Chapter 27, Verse 8 |
| Cebuano | Sa mga tabla pagabuhaton mo ang halaran nga adunay buho: ingon sa gipakita kanimo didto sa bukid, mao ang pagabuhaton mo. |
| Chinese | 要 " 板 作 壇 . 壇 是 空 的 、 都 照 著 在 山 上 指 示 的 樣 式 作 。 |
| Croatian | Naèini ga šuplja, od dasaka: kako ti je pokazano na brdu, onako neka je i napravljen." |
| Danish | Du skal lave det hult af Brædder; som det vises dig på Bjerget, skal du lave det. |
| Dutch | Gij zult hetzelve hol van planken maken; gelijk als Hij u op den berg gewezen heeft, alzo zullen zij doen. |
| Finnish | Tee se laudoista, ontoksi. Niinkuin sinulle näytettiin vuorella, niin se tehtäköön. |
| French | Tu le feras creux, avec des planches; il sera fait tel qu`il t`est montré sur la montagne. |
| German | Und sollst ihn also von Brettern machen, daß er inwendig hohl sei, wie dir auf dem Berge gezeigt ist. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Buatlah mezbah itu dari papan dan berongga bagian dalamnya, menurut rencana yang Kutunjukkan kepadamu di atas gunung ini." |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Hendaklah kauperbuatkan dia geronggang dari pada papan, seperti yang telah ditunjuk kepadamu di atas bukit, demikian hendaklah kauperbuatkan dia. |
| Italian | Lo farai di tavole, vuoto nell'interno: lo si far come ti fu mostrato sul monte. |
| Maori | Kia tuwhera kau a roto, me hanga e koe ki te papa: kia rite tau e hanga ai ki tera i whakakitea ki a koe ki te maunga. |
| Norwegian | Alteret skal du gjøre av bord; det skal være hult; som det blev vist dig på fjellet, således skal det gjøres. |
| Portuguese | èco, de tábuas, o farás; como se te mostrou no monte, assim o farão. |
| Rumanian | Sq -l faci din scknduri wi gol pe din lquntru. Sq fie fqcut awa cum yi s`a arqtat pe munte. |
| Russian | у"ЕМБК ЕЗП ХУФПК ЧОХФТЙ, "ПУЮБФЩК: ЛБЛ ПЛБЪБОП ФЕ'Е ОБ ЗПТЕ, ФБЛ ХУФШ У"ЕМБАФ. |
| Spanish | Harás el altar hueco, hecho de tablas. De la manera que te fue mostrado en el monte, así lo harán. |
| Swedish | Ihåligt skall du göra det, av plankor. Såsom det har blivit dig visat på berget, så skall det göras. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Misspellings | |
"MASSY" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: amessy, Ampsys, assy, Maasey, maass, Maassi, Mabsy, Maisby, masi, masie, Masiye, masj, masq, massa, Massia, Massieu, Massika, Massim, massu, Massys, masu, Matsuyo, Matys, Mazzy, measy, Memsys, Metsys, missey, missi, Mussie, Nassb, Nissy. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-m-s-s-y" | |
-1 letter: mass, mays, says, yams. | |
-2 letters: ass, ays, mas, may, say, yam. | |
-3 letters: am, as, ay, ma, my, ya. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-m-s-s-y" | |
+1 letter: abysms, missay, myases, myasis. | |
+2 letters: alyssum, asylums, dismays, embassy, mislays, missays, morassy, myiases, myiasis, shamoys, yasmaks, zymases. | |
+3 letters: alyssums, amylases, amyloses, assembly, emissary, gymnasts, malmseys, massedly, mayoress, misassay, misplays, samoyeds, someways, symposia, yashmacs, yashmaks, zymosans. | |
+4 letters: aimlessly, amethysts, aneurysms, assumably, boyarisms, chlamyses, dandyisms, domesdays, doomsdays, dynamisms, dynamists, fairyisms, gossamery, homestays, loyalisms, lysosomal, mainstays, massively, mateyness, maybushes, misassays, mislayers, missaying, mydriases, mydriasis, myoblasts, mystagogs, nystagmus, paroxysms, ptyalisms, royalisms, spymaster, sycamines, sycamores, syngamies, syntagmas, toadyisms, yahooisms. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 41 53 53 59 |
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-- .- ... ... -.--. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01000001 01010011 01010011 01011001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M A S S Y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 0041 0053 0053 0059 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4735535359 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Images: Photo Album | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Names: Frequency 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Bible Trace 10. Derivations 11. Anagrams 12. Orthography | 13. Bibliography |
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