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MASSY

Definition: MASSY

MASSY

Superlative

1. 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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "MASSY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1200. (references)

Note: Massy \Mass"y\, adjective. [Comparative Massier; superlative Massiest.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms within Context: MASSY

ContextSynonyms 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.

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Crosswords: MASSY

English words defined with "MASSY": Massiness. (references)
Specialty definitions using "MASSY": Massamore. (references)
Etymologies containing "MASSY": massiness. (references)

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Commercial Usage: MASSY

DomainTitle

Books

  • Bolsheviki Ukrainy v borbe za soldatskie massy : 1914-mart 1917 g.g (reference)

  • Le Hurepoix : Massy, Palaiseau, Villebon, Igny, Champlan, Ballainvilliers, Villejust, Saulx-les-Chartreux (reference)

  • Monitoring balansa massy gornykh lednikov (reference)

  • Protsessy perenosa tepla i massy v teplovykh trubakh (reference)

  • Sahara occidental, un peuple et ses droits : colloque de Massy, 1er et 2 avril 1978 (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: MASSY

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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.

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Usage Frequency: MASSY

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%3202,518

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: MASSY

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.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
MassyLast name13055,644
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: MASSY

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
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.

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Modern Translations: MASSY

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

   

Portuguese

  

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)

   

Romanian

  

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)

   

Russian 

  

солидный (reputable, solid). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

masivan (massive, ponderous), obiman (ample, capacious, comprehensive, extensive, large, massive, spacious, voluminous), krupan (big, burly, husky, large, man-sized, massive, walloping). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

sólido (body, chunky, fast, filling, firm, fixed, hard, meaty, robust, solid, stable, stout, strong, sturdy, substantial, used to). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

tek parça halinde (in a single piece, massively), dev (colossal, colossus, cyclopean, giant, giantess, goliath, huge, kingsize, monster, titan). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

солідний (solid), масивний (bastard, beamy, heavy, hulking, massive, ponderous, solid). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

to lớn (bouncing, bulky, capacious, colossal, cyclopean, enourmous, enourmously, goodly, great, howling, huge, mammoth, massive, monster, titanic), chắc nặng thô. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Bible Trace: MASSY

LanguageDateSourceExodus Chapter 27, Verse 8
Greek (transliterated)250 BCSeptuagintKoilon sanidwton poihseiV auto kata to paradeicqen soi en tw orei outwV poihseiV auto
Latin405VulgateNon solidum sed inane et cavum intrinsecus facies illud sicut tibi in monte monstratum est
Middle English1395WyclifThow shalt make it not massy, but with inne voyde, and with ynne holowy, as it is shewid to thee in the hil.
Renaissance English1526TyndaleAnd make the altare holowe with bordes: euen as it was shewed the in the mount, so lett them make it,
Jacobean English1611King JamesHollow with boards shalt thou make it: as it was showed thee in the mount, so shall they make it.
Victorian English1833WebsterHollow with boards shalt thou make it: as it was shown thee on the mount, so shall they make it.
Basic English1964OgdenThe 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.

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Matched Bible Translations: MASSY

LanguageExodus Chapter 27, Verse 8
CebuanoSa 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 。
CroatianNaèini ga šuplja, od dasaka: kako ti je pokazano na brdu, onako neka je i napravljen."
DanishDu skal lave det hult af Brædder; som det vises dig på Bjerget, skal du lave det.
DutchGij zult hetzelve hol van planken maken; gelijk als Hij u op den berg gewezen heeft, alzo zullen zij doen.
FinnishTee se laudoista, ontoksi. Niinkuin sinulle näytettiin vuorella, niin se tehtäköön.
FrenchTu le feras creux, avec des planches; il sera fait tel qu`il t`est montré sur la montagne.
GermanUnd sollst ihn also von Brettern machen, daß er inwendig hohl sei, wie dir auf dem Berge gezeigt ist.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hariBuatlah mezbah itu dari papan dan berongga bagian dalamnya, menurut rencana yang Kutunjukkan kepadamu di atas gunung ini."
Indonesian-Terjemahan LamaHendaklah kauperbuatkan dia geronggang dari pada papan, seperti yang telah ditunjuk kepadamu di atas bukit, demikian hendaklah kauperbuatkan dia.
ItalianLo farai di tavole, vuoto nell'interno: lo si far come ti fu mostrato sul monte.
MaoriKia 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.
NorwegianAlteret skal du gjøre av bord; det skal være hult; som det blev vist dig på fjellet, således skal det gjøres.
Portugueseèco, de tábuas, o farás; como se te mostrou no monte, assim o farão.   
RumanianSq -l faci din scknduri wi gol pe din lquntru. Sq fie fqcut awa cum yi s`a arqtat pe munte.
Russianу"ЕМБК ЕЗП ХУФПК ЧОХФТЙ, "ПУЮБФЩК: ЛБЛ ПЛБЪБОП ФЕ'Е ОБ ЗПТЕ, ФБЛ ХУФШ У"ЕМБАФ.
SpanishHarás el altar hueco, hecho de tablas. De la manera que te fue mostrado en el monte, así lo harán.
SwedishIhåligt 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.

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Misspellings: MASSY

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).

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Anagrams: MASSY

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: MASSY


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4D 41 53 53 59

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

--    .-    ...    ...    -.--.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001101 01000001 01010011 01010011 01011001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#65 &#83 &#83 &#89

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)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4735535359

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INDEX

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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