(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.
Size
Definition:
(n.) Six.
(v. i.) A thin, weak glue used in various trades, as in painting, bookbinding, paper making, etc.
(v. i.) Any viscous substance, as gilder's varnish.
(v. t.) To cover with size; to prepare with size.
(n.) A settled quantity or allowance. See Assize.
(n.) An allowance of food and drink from the buttery, aside from the regular dinner at commons; -- corresponding to battel at Oxford.
(n.) Extent of superficies or volume; bulk; bigness; magnitude; as, the size of a tree or of a mast; the size of a ship or of a rock.
(n.) Figurative bulk; condition as to rank, ability, character, etc.; as, the office demands a man of larger size.
(n.) A conventional relative measure of dimension, as for shoes, gloves, and other articles made up for sale.
(n.) An instrument consisting of a number of perforated gauges fastened together at one end by a rivet, -- used for ascertaining the size of pearls.
(v. t.) To fix the standard of.
(v. t.) To adjust or arrange according to size or bulk.
(v. t.) To take the height of men, in order to place them in the ranks according to their stature.
(v. t.) To sift, as pieces of ore or metal, in order to separate the finer from the coarser parts.
(v. t.) To swell; to increase the bulk of.
(v. t.) To bring or adjust anything exactly to a required dimension, as by cutting.
(v. i.) To take greater size; to increase in size.
(v. i.) To order food or drink from the buttery; hence, to enter a score, as upon the buttery book.
Example Sentences:
(1) A series of human cDNA clones of various sizes and relative localizations to the mRNA molecule were isolated by using the human p53-H14 (2.35-kilobase) cDNA probe which we previously cloned.
(2) The optimal size for stimulation was between 5 degrees and 12 degrees (visual angle).
(3) To quantify the size of the lesion in mice, the area of the infarct on the brain surface was assessed planimetrically 48 h after MCA occlusion by transcardial perfusion of carbon black.
(4) Moreover in MIT-1, the size of the novel polypeptide was not that predicted of the precursor (44.9 kDa) but was about 39 kDa, the same size as the authentic GS gamma polypeptide in CYT-4.
(5) The statistical T value calculated for the LP-TAE group showed that the administration of LP, the tumor size, intrahepatic metastasis, portal vein infiltration, and serum total bilirubin and alpha-fetoprotein levels significantly (P < 0.01) affected the patients' survival.
(6) Size analysis of the solubilized IgA IP employing sucrose density gradient ultracentrifugation, indicated that these were heterogeneous, with a size generally larger than 19 S.
(7) Using the oocyte system to express size-fractionated mRNA, we have also determined that the mRNA coding for this protein is between 1.9-2.4 kilobases in length.
(8) In all groups, there was a fall in labeling index with time reflecting increasing tumor size.
(9) However, both were identical in size when synthesized in COS-1 cells in the presence of tunicamycin or when deglycosylated after their synthesis in Xenopus oocytes.
(10) To estimate the age of onset of these differences, and to assess their relationship to abdominal and gluteal adipocyte size, we measured adiposity, adipocyte size, and glucose and insulin concentrations during a glucose tolerance test in lean (less than 20% body fat), prepubertal children from each race.
(11) In 2012, 20% of small and medium-sized businesses were either run solely or mostly by women.
(12) All patients with localized subaortic hypertrophy had left ventricular hypertrophy (left ventricular mass or posterior wall thickness greater than 2 SD from normal) with a normal size cavity due to aortic valve disease (2 patients were also hypertensive).
(13) We studied the effects of the localisation and size of ischemic brain infarcts and the influence of potential covariates (gender, age, time since infarction, physical handicap, cognitive impairment, aphasia, cortical atrophy and ventricular size) on 'post-stroke depression'.
(14) The results were compared with those obtained by Hess and Goldblatt, and were further analyzed for possible differences by age, sex, ethnicity, and family size.
(15) The combined results suggest that any possible heterogeneity in the L-CAM genes is not reflected in the size of either the mRNA or protein.
(16) After immunoadsorbent purification, the final step in a purification procedure similar to that adopted for colon cancer CEA, two main molecular species were identified: 1) Material identical with colon cancer CEA with respect to molecular size, PCA solubility, ability to bind to Con A, and most important the ability to bind to specific monkey anti-CEA serum.
(17) In spite of important differences in size, chemical composition, polymer density, and configuration, biological macromolecules indeed manifest some of the essential physical-chemical properties of gels.
(18) The minimal change in gel fiber size caused by slow A release implies that fibrin fiber size is primarily a function of ionic environment and not of the sequence of peptide release.
(19) The total content of both thyroid hormones in the oocytes increased throughout most of the ovarian cycle as the oocytes increased in size from less than 2 mg to approximately 6.5 mg by ovulation.
(20) Tactile stimulation of a coin-sized area in a T-2 dermatome consistently triggered a lancinating pain in the ipsilateral C-8 dermatome in a 38-year-old woman.