What's the difference between missy and mossy?

Missy


Definition:

  • (n.) See Misy.
  • (n.) An affectionate, or contemptuous, form of miss; a young girl; a miss.
  • (a.) Like a miss, or girl.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Nan had gone away for a weekend Prayathon and Mack had taken Katie and Missy to a shack in Oregon.
  • (2) Although MIA recently commissioned Bad Girls remixes featuring Azealia Banks and Missy Elliott, the new record will have "no collabs".
  • (3) Guitarist Donna Matthews left the band after she told frontwoman Justine Frischmann she wanted the new album to sound like Missy Elliott.
  • (4) The story of Missy's disappearance had been all too familiar to anyone who read second-rate thrillers about serial killers.
  • (5) You won’t find any swing or crooning standards here: just Missy, Kanye, Biggie and Foxy, while some rather good MCs-in-training keep pace on the stage.
  • (6) Irvine Welsh, John Waters, Chris Rock, Aidan Moffat, Missy Elliott –sometimes a radio edit just won’t do.
  • (7) "And I know where to find Missy's body," Mack laughed.
  • (8) During a tour of the White House, the pair were also joined by the rapper Missy Elliott for a rendition of This is For My Girls and later Elliott’s hit Get Ur Freak On.
  • (9) As well as the return of the Daleks, this season will bring back John Simm in his role as the doctor’s nemesis The Master, while Michelle Gomez will also be reprising her role as Missy.
  • (10) The two drove around the White House driveway while they sang Beyoncé and rapped with Missy Elliot, who made a cameo.
  • (11) But I also like JME and Fat White Family and Bobbie Gentry and Sly Stone and Missy Elliott and some of the strange Appalachian folk music that S plays me from time to time.
  • (12) Justice Lex Lasry will speak at the Federation Square event and Missy Higgins will perform music.
  • (13) While SS15 moved through dogtooth print and double-breasted coats, this collection - with soundtrack of Missy Elliot and The Cure turned up loud - fell to streetwear.
  • (14) In correspondence, Clinton calls her friend “Missy Diane”, and signs Christmas cards to her from the White House “From Potus and Flotus”.
  • (15) I played drums, but you can’t write a song just to drums.” Brown was the first Spice Girl to record a solo record, and an impressive one it was, too – I Want You Back , featuring hip-hop star Missy Elliott .
  • (16) Missy Elliot does a guest rap on This Is For My Girls and she popped up in the back seat to deliver her verse, then joined Corden and Obama on Get Ur Freak On, a song whose lyrics didn’t seem to phase Michelle one bit.
  • (17) But when they reached the shore, Missy was nowhere to be seen.
  • (18) She is seventh in the world rankings Key rival Missy Franklin, another event where the American leads the world Medal prediction Finalist Liam Tancock 100m backstroke Over one length of the pool, Tancock is all but unbeatable.
  • (19) And since you've been such a good man, I'll show you where Missy is buried."
  • (20) Shortly after the summer that Missy vanished, The Great Sadness had draped around Mack's shoulders like an invisible cliche.

Mossy


Definition:

  • (superl.) Overgrown with moss; abounding with or edged with moss; as, mossy trees; mossy streams.
  • (superl.) Resembling moss; as, mossy green.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In epileptic hippocampi, (n = 21) reactive synaptogenesis of mossy fibers into the inner molecular layer of the granule cell dendrites was demonstrated at the light microscopic and electron microscopic levels.
  • (2) The developmental pattern of hippocampal mossy fiber (dentate granule cell axon) innervation to the pyramidal cell layer was examined with anterograde transport methods.
  • (3) The decrease in cerebellar cGMP content elicited by haloperidol can be differentiated from that elicited by diazepam; perhaps haloperidol reduces the mossy fiber input to the cerebellum.
  • (4) The role of intracellular calcium in an APV-insensitive form of long-term potentiation (LTP) has been studied at the hippocampal mossy fiber synapse.
  • (5) A study of seizure activity and neuronal cell death produced by intracerebroventricular kainic acid had suggested that seizures conveyed by the hippocampal mossy fibers are more damaging to CA3 pyramidal cells than seizures conveyed by other pathways.
  • (6) These results demonstrate that serotonergic fiber input from DR can suppress the efficacy of mossy and climbing fiber synaptic action on PC, or decrease the responsiveness of PC itself to afferent synaptic action.
  • (7) In the rat, neonatal irradiation produces a destruction of dentate granule cells and prevents the development of the mossy fibre-CA3 pyramidal cell synapse.
  • (8) These lesions destroyed mossy terminals and their parent axons and thus initiated a retrograde reaction in basilar pontine projection neurons which manifested itself in the form of morphologic alterations observed in somata, dendrites, and a class of axonal boutons.
  • (9) Short-term changes in synaptic efficacy were studied at the mossy fiber (MF) to CA3 (MF-CA3) synapse in the in vitro hippocampus.
  • (10) To facilitate improvement of investigations on the distribution of mossy fibers in the hippocampal formation, a method is described using Timm's stained preparations after methacrylate embedding with the hydrophilic resin, Quetol 523M.
  • (11) The quantitative and topographical differences in the origin of mossy fibers suggest that these lobules may subserve slightly different functions.
  • (12) A highly positive correlation was found, in both species, between the synaptic surface and the number of agranular vesicles per unit volume of mossy fiber endings, while no correlation was found between the synaptic surface and numerical densities of coated and dense core vesicles.
  • (13) The distribution of mossy fiber terminals originating from the lower thoracic-higher lumbar spinal cord was compared to the distribution of zebrin I bands.
  • (14) Taurine localization to cerebellar mossy fibers and to fibers in the molecular layer of the dentate gyrus may be more consistent with a proposed neuromodulator role of taurine.
  • (15) The orthograde and retrograde HRP studies suggested that the mossy fibre response is mediated by the pontine grey whereas the climbing fibre response is conveyed indirectly to the inferior olive which sends the climbing fibres to the cerebellar cortex.
  • (16) The effect of dietary zinc deficiency on the mossy fiber zinc content of the rat hippocampus was investigated using PIXE (Particle Induced X-Ray Emission) spectroscopy.
  • (17) These results are consistent with the hypothesis that the floccular H-zone Purkinje cells adaptively control the optokinetic eye movement through modification of the visual mossy fiber responsiveness under the influence of the retinal error signals conveyed by the visual climbing pathway.
  • (18) The responses of Purkinje cells and presumed mossy fibers to natural stimulation of the horizontal semicircular canals were recorded in the nodulus and uvula of rabbit vestibulocerebellum.
  • (19) Feeding a zinc-deficient diet for 28 days did not cause a decrease in the mossy fiber zinc level, however, feeding the zinc-deficient diet for 90 days reduced the maximum mossy fiber zinc level by about 30%.
  • (20) The electron-microscopic examination of hippocampal tissues from rats that had been perfused with fixative during the seizure revealed that the large dense-core vesicles increased in number and accumulated on the presynaptic membranes of mossy fiber boutons; some of these vesicles appeared to be fused with the membranes, and omega-shaped exocytotic profiles were frequently seen.