(a.) Forming, or consisting of, a large mass; compacted; weighty; heavy; massy.
(a.) In mass; not necessarily without a crystalline structure, but having no regular form; as, a mineral occurs massive.
Example Sentences:
(1) I said: ‘Apologies for doing this publicly, but I did try to get a meeting with you, and I couldn’t even get a reply.’ And then I had a massive go at him – about everything really, from poverty to uni fees to NHS waiting times.” She giggles again.
(2) Evaluation revealed tricuspid insufficiency, a massively dilated right internal jugular vein, and obstruction of the left internal jugular vein.
(3) Furthermore echography revealed a collateral subperiosteal edema and a moderate thickening of extraocular muscles and bone periostitis, a massive swelling of muscles and bone defects in subperiosteal abscesses as well as encapsulated abscesses of the orbit and a concomitant retrobulbar neuritis in orbital cellulitis.
(4) TR was classified as follows: severe (massive systolic opacification and persistence of the microbubbles in the IVC for at least 20 seconds); moderate (moderate systolic opacification lasting less than 20 seconds); mild (slight systolic opacification lasting less than 10 seconds); insignificant TR (sporadic appearance of the contrast medium into the IVC).
(5) I can see you use humour as a defence mechanism, so in return I could just tell you that if he's massively rich or famous and you've decided you'll put up with it to please him, you'll eventually discover it's not worth it.
(6) Massive osteoplastic bone tumor in hepatocellular carcinoma is very rare.
(7) Two patients presented in addition to intestinal manifestations massive extraintestinal symptoms, both with septicemia and meningitis.
(8) That is, he believes, to look at massively difficult, interlocking problems through too narrow a lens.
(9) It was recently demonstrated that MRL-lpr lymphoid cells transferred into lethally irradiated MRL- +mice unexpectedly failed to induce the early onset of lupus syndrome and massive lymphadenopathy of the donor, instead they caused a severe wasting syndrome resembling graft-vs-host (GvH) disease.
(10) The clinical and roentgenographic features of xanthogranulomatosis bear a close resemblance to those seen in two fibrosclerosing syndromes: sinus histiocytosis with massive lymphadenopathy and retroperitoneal fibrosis.
(11) The talent base in the UK – not just producers and actors but camera and sound – is unparalleled, so I think creativity will continue unabated.” Lee does recognise “massive” cultural differences between the US and UK.
(12) There's a massive police station there, and they couldn't do anything.
(13) Jane's life clearly still has a massive Spike-shaped hole in it.
(14) Purpura fulminans is the cutaneous manifestation of acute activation of the clotting mechanism resulting in massive hemorrhage due to an intravascular consumption coagulopathy.
(15) Por the treatment of L.A., adjunction of dialysis and furosemide improved the efficacy of early and massive sodium bicarbonate infusion.
(16) Unlike previous studies where constitutive expression of exogenous IL-6 genes resulted in lymphoproliferative disorders characterized by massive plasmacytosis, minimal plasma cell expansion occurred in the MSCV-IL-6 mice during the observation period.
(17) One patient had massive fibrosis and severe glomerulonephropathy, an association that has also been previously noted.
(18) To a large extent, the failure has been a consequence of a cold war-style deadlock – Russia and Iran on one side, and the west and most of the Arab world on the other – over the fate of Bashar al-Assad , a negotiating gap kept open by force in the shape of massive Russian and Iranian military support to keep the Syrian regime in place.
(19) The government’s increase in the discount offered to tenants has prompted a massive increase in purchases of local authority accommodation.
(20) It would cost their own businesses hundreds of millions of pounds in transaction costs, it would blow a massive hole in their balance of payments, it would leave them having to pick up the entirety of UK debt.
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.