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Decay vs Mozy - What's the difference?

decay | mozy |

As verbs the difference between decay and mozy

is that decay is to deteriorate, to get worse, to lose strength or health, to decline in quality while mozy is .

As a noun decay

is the process or result of being gradually decomposed.

As an adjective mozy is

shaggy; hairy.

decay

English

(wikipedia decay)

Noun

  • The process or result of being gradually decomposed.
  • * 1895 , H. G. Wells, The Time Machine Chapter X
    • I fancied at first the stuff was paraffin wax, and smashed the jar accordingly. But the odor of camphor was unmistakable. It struck me as singularly odd, that among the universal decay , this volatile substance had chanced to survive, perhaps through many thousand years.
  • A deterioration of condition.

    • Derived terms

    * bacterial decay * decayability * decayable * decayer * orbital decay * particle decay * radioactive decay

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To deteriorate, to get worse, to lose strength or health, to decline in quality.
    • The pair loved to take pictures in the decaying hospital on forty-third street.
  • # (intransitive, electronics, of storage media or the data on them) To undergo , that is, gradual degradation.
  • # (intransitive, computing, of software) To undergo , that is, to fail to be updated in a changing environment,so as to eventually become legacy or obsolete.
  • # (intransitive, physics, of a satellite's orbit) To undergo prolonged reduction in altitude (above the orbited body).
  • 2009 , Francis Lyall, Paul B. Larsen, Space Law: A Treatise , page 120:
  • Damaged on lift-off, Skylab was left in orbit until its orbit decayed .
  • (of organic material) To rot, to go bad.
    • The cat's body decayed rapidly.
  • (intransitive, transitive, physics, chemistry, of an unstable atom) To change by undergoing fission, by emitting radiation, or by capturing or losing one or more electrons.
  • * 2005 , Encyclopedia of Earth Science (edited by Timothy M. Kusky; ISBN 0-8160-4973-4), page 349:
    • Uranium decays to radium through a long series of steps with a cumulative half-life of 4.4 billion years.
  • (intransitive, transitive, physics, of a quantum system) To undergo , that is, to relax to a less excited state, usually by emitting a photon or phonon.
  • (aviation)
  • To cause to rot or deteriorate.
    • The extreme humidity decayed the wooden sculptures in the museum's collection in a matter of years.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Infirmity, that decays the wise.

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    mozy

    English

    Adjective

  • Shaggy; hairy.
  • * 1830, Robert Forby, The Vocabulary of East Anglia: An Attempt to Record the Vulgar Tongue of the ... - Page 223
    • The clown, who shaves but once a week, is of course very mozy when he comes under the barber's hands.
  • Musty; starting to decay; tainted.
  • * 1890, John Drummond Robertson, Henry Haughton Reynolds Moreton, A Glossary of Dialect & Archaic Words Used in the County of Gloucester - Page 197
    • Mozy , adj., ...also, as applied to meat, fruit, &c., tainted, musty, beginning to decay.
  • Faded; dingy.
  • * 1888, Sidney Oldall Addy, A Glossary of Words Used in the Neighbourhood of Sheffield - Page 152
    • A calf whose skin is of a dirty grey colour is said to have a mozy look.
  • Tough, as fruit when frostbitten.
  • * 1887, Thomas Darlington , The Folk-speech of South Cheshire - Page 266
    • Mozy [moa-zi] , adj. juiceless, tough, as apples, pears, turnips, &c., are when frostbitten.
  • (archaic) Muggy.
  • * 1890, John Drummond Robertson, Henry Haughton Reynolds Moreton, A Glossary of Dialect & Archaic Words Used in the County of Gloucester - Page 197
    • Mozy , adj., ' muggy,' as applied to weather, warm and damp ;

    Verb

  • * 1906, Texas Medical Association, Texas State Journal of Medicine - Page 9
    • And does the gastric unpleasantness still linger around the cardiac end, or has it migrated to the pylorus, and in doing so, did it seem to mozy along the lesser or greater stomachal curvature?
  • * 1919, National Marine Engineers' Beneficial Association (U.S.) - Marine engineers, Journal of Proceedings of the National Marine Engineers' Beneficial ... - Page 10
    • ...who drove into a hill town with his ox cart, and they were mozying along the road, and he suddenly came face to face with a new sign he had...
  • * 1938, Zane Grey, Raiders of Spanish Peaks - Page 7
    • Mozy along.
  • * 2005, R. E. Wilburn, Lo, These Many Years - Page 89
    • Patina had the baby; Louisa was going off to college to be a pre-med student, and Charlotte just mozied along.

    See also

    * tozy-mozy