Massy vs Massa - What's the difference?
massy | massa |
Heavy; massive.
* 1587, Christopher Marlowe, Tamburlaine the Great
* 1874 Ralph Waldo Emerson, Heroic
* 2003 October 5-8, J. A. Kosinski, 2003 IEEE Symposium on Ultrasonics , volume 1, ISBN 0-7803-7922-5, abstract, pages 70-73
* 1860, George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss
As nouns the difference between massy and massa
is that massy is while massa is a mass.As an adjective massy
is heavy; massive.As a verb massa is
to mass, to sing/speak (as if) in church.massy
English
Adjective
(er)- Their plumed helms are wrought with beaten gold, / Their swords enamell'd, and about their necks / Hang massy chains of gold down to the waist;
- When mountains tremble, those two massy pillars / With horrible convulsion to and fro
- We develop a set of six coupled equations governing the modal amplitudes and phase angles (mode-center offsets) for the flat, piezoelectric plate resonator with massy electrodes of unequal thickness.
Noun
(head)- "But Lors ha' massy , how did you get near such mud as that?" said Sally, ...