(n.) An animal, probably the hippopotamus, described in Job xl. 15-24.
Example Sentences:
(1) The R&D team at Unilever, the British-Dutch behemoth that makes 40% of the ice creams we eat in the UK – Magnum, Ben & Jerry's, Cornetto and Carte D'Or among them – has invested heavily to create products that are both healthier and creamier.
(2) The blog, which used to chronicle the discoveries OkCupid made by observing its users’ behaviour, has been mothballed for three years, since OkCupid was purchased by dating behemoth Match.com in February 2011.
(3) The tech behemoth reported strong sales of its signature phone in its third-quarter financial report – fully 47.5m iPhones, up more than a third year-over-year, for a net revenue of $31.4bn.
(4) To be in the bowels of West Ham’s London Stadium last week was to experience the distilled essence of the modern, multi-billion pound Premier League behemoth.
(5) Later, Lord Birt said he admired the "bold, buccaneering spirit" of Rupert Murdoch but warned that Sky was "a financial behemoth now dwarfing other players, including the BBC, financially".
(6) Over time, this first wave of dating sites began to be subsumed and crushed by the behemoths: Udate, match.com, datingdirect.com , offering simple functionality, instant messaging features and lots of room for photographs.
(7) What's really surprising is that the No 1 British act in America isn't Elton John or Paul McCartney or any of those obvious British behemoths abroad (although Irish band U2 did come in higher and Coldplay haven't released anything recently).
(8) Dahl’s heroine, Sophie, is a lonely young girl plucked from her bed in an orphanage by the titular behemoth, and carried off to Giant Land, his home, lest she alert the normal world to the presence of giants.
(9) The past few years have seen unprecedented consolidation between insurance companies as they’ve merged and become behemoths.
(10) Twelve months ago, Murdoch characterised the publicly funded BBC as a threat to the rest of the industry, a behemoth that distorts every market it enters, from magazines to websites.
(11) But the past weeks saw several signs that the network he turned into a ratings behemoth was cooling in its support.
(12) Presented as a benevolent behemoth of fast-track regeneration, the Games were supposed to leave behind a shiny new world of 12,000 homes and 10,000 jobs, set amid the rolling hills of the largest new park in Europe.
(13) Europe can’t expect its digital talent to take on the Googles, Facebooks, Amazons and Apples without some assurance that law will prevent the behemoths from handing them an offer they can’t refuse: be acquired, pay hefty fees for ads or placement, or risk total obscurity.
(14) The reality is the Democratic Senate and the administration have been involved in this at every level.” Louise Slaughter, ranking Democrat on the House rules committee, argued the “behemoth” of a bill was “submitted in the dark of night at the last minute in the hope that we would not find out what was in it.” “The House of Representatives is about to show us the worst of government for the rich and powerful,” said Senator Elizabeth Warren in a speech on Wednesday that served to rally opposition.
(15) This vast scale has given it an air of an unstoppable behemoth trampling over rivals and across borders.
(16) The company responsible for the the Charge HR , the Surge and the eponymous Fitbit Tracker is the behemoth of the $3bn fitness tracking industry with a 68% share of the market, but is it worth the valuation?
(17) I would rather they actually contract out to a large number of smaller production companies rather than have a behemoth themselves,” Bridgen said.
(18) Since 2007 the price of food in real terms increased by 12% across the board, while the buying power of the behemoth retailers allowed them to push the prices paid to farmers – whether traditional or organic – ever closer to a bankruptcy cliff.
(19) It’s possible Mary Berry is in fact a trojan behemoth, and viewers might wonder what dark secrets she’s hiding as a highly strung web administrator from Kettering furiously puts the finishing touches to a multi-tiered woodland-themed Genoese sponge.
(20) The NRA’s commitment to Trump was underscored when Chris Cox, the NRA’s top lobbyist gave a primetime speech at the GOP convention this summer, a first for the increasingly GOP-oriented pro-gun lobbying behemoth.
Massy
Definition:
(superl.) 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.
Example Sentences:
(1) Massie indicated the coalition is already looking towards the June 2017 expiration of another broad surveillance power, Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, to force additional rollbacks, much as the USA Freedom Act authors used the expiration of parts of the Patriot Act as leverage to pass their bill.
(2) The 150-degree telescoping Massie nail proved superior to the fixed 135-degree Jewett nail (particularly for unstable fractures) because it allowed a controlled impaction of the fracture fragments to a stable position.
(3) But the Nordics are not sustainable from an environmental perspective and that’s where we need to focus.” Massie is also facing an uphill struggle convincing the social justice groups to incorporate big business into the coalition.
(4) It takes courage to speak out in public about these things,” said Massie, who shared his own story about ScotAirways refusing to take him on an airplane in 2000.
(5) Scottish novelist and historian Allan Massie wrote recently: "William McIlvanney is the best Scottish novelist of his generation.
(6) "For us, there is no other solution than the departure of François Bozize," Eric Massi, a rebel spokesman, said from Paris by telephone on Saturday.
(7) Replication of two small 'constrained' regions of the Escherichia coli chromosome, one bordered by replication terminator T1 and the other by T2, displays normal velocity in the normal direction whereas it is much slower in the opposite direction (de Massy et al., 1987).
(8) Thomas Massie, a conservative Republican congressman from Kentucky, is not formally a member of the Freedom Caucus, but appeared to speak for many of them at the meeting on Wednesday when he said that McCarthy was “absolutely not an option”, adding that McCarthy’s comments about the Benghazi committee last week “disqualify him not just as speaker, but as majority leader”.
(9) Massie also downplayed the importance of Thursday’s vote.
(10) Thomas Massie, a libertarian-minded Kentucky Republican, has authored an amendment to a forthcoming appropriations bill that blocks any funding for the National Institute of Science and Technology to “coordinate or consult” with the NSA or the Central Intelligence Agency “for the purpose of establishing cryptographic or computer standards that permit the warrantless electronic surveillance” by the spy agencies.
(11) Jerry Massie, a spokesman for Oklahoma's corrections department, explained to the group of witnesses permitted to watch the procedure that the first drug to be used under the state's new lethal injection protocol would take some time to have its desired effect.
(12) • Alex Massie at the Spectator says it has been a day of low drama.
(13) Only time will tell if Massie strikes it fourth time lucky with his coalition building or whether his attempt to crowdsource a movement will fizzle out like Occupy for lack of a clear direction and strategy.
(14) Congress added amendments – by Lofgren and her GOP allies Thomas Massie of Kentucky and Ted Poe of Texas, preventing the NSA from undermining encryption standards and the FBI from compelling companies to permit the intelligence and law enforcement agency surreptitious access to user data – to a Justice Department funding bill.
(15) Massie wants to know whether Clinton asked Hicks about additional resources he might need.
(16) Massie, a former Rand Paul supporter, is convinced that Trump, along with either of the two candidates still running, could beat Hillary Clinton.
(17) Congressman Massie used more blunt terms and described the scenario as “completely apocalyptic”.
(18) This may all sound convincing in theory, but has Massie bitten off more than he can chew and will his organising principle prove to be effective?
(19) Pulmonary metastases were classified into five types: solitary, multiple nodular, multiple "massy," diffuse, and miliary.
(20) "I can't describe how frustrating this has been," Mr Massie said.