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Masa

Definition: Masa

Masa

Noun

1. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "Masa" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1856. (references)

"Masa" is a common misspelling or typo for: mama, maser, mash, mask, mass, mast, maze, mesa.

Abbreviations & Acronyms: Masa

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
EntrySourceExpressionField

MASA

EnglishMethods and Standards AutomationN/A

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Crosswords: Masa

Specialty definitions using "Masa": CORN COOKER, CORN GRINDER. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Masa" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Albanian (arrangement, proceedings, provision), Czech (bulk, mass), Icelandic (chat, chatter, gossip), Indonesian (epoch, era, period, season, tense, term), Macedonian (table), Polish (accumulation, crowd, heap, mass, multitude, pile), Romanian (knead, mass), Sepedi (dawn), Serbo-Croatian (heap, mass, matter), Spanish (body, bulk, dollop, dough, lump, mass, paste, volume), Turkish (console, desk, table).

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Modern Usage: Masa

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

La Civilización está haciendo masa y no deja oir (1974)

Professori Masa (1950)

Rumah masa depan (1984)

Masa Alunkot (1977)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Masa

DomainTitle

Books

  • El Hombre y La Masa (reference)

  • Masa (reference)

  • Masa Kecil Putra Sang Fajar, 1901-1916 (reference)

  • Mudworks: Bilingual Edition / Edicion bilingue--Creative Clay, Dough and Modeling Experiences / Experiencias Creativas Con Arcilla, Masa Y Modelado (reference)

  • Nuevas Esculturas de Masa de Pan - Flores y Frutas (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: Masa

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

Lindungilah mereka dengan memberi suntikan untuk menjamin masa depan.Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Masa

"Masa" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Masa" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%2245,945

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Masa

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "Masa": masa-idah, masa-idahdeputy.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Masa

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
  ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  masa

132

  flexible masa

6

  harina masa

53

  masa molecular

6

  corporal de indice masa

42

  conservacion de de la la ley masa

6

  de masa transferencia

23

  harina masa toronto

6

  centro de masa

18

  es masa que

5

  atomica masa

16

  coeficientes de de masa transferencia

5

  masa tenisi

14

  boston masa

5

  masa muscular

13

  madre masa

5

  de masa sal

13

  aumentar masa muscular

5

  kvaerner masa yard

12

  masa resimleri üstü

5

  corporal indice masa

10

  12 masa rotunda

5

  george masa

10

  valeria masa

5

  masa pengurusan

9

  empanadas masa para

5

  masa corporal

8

  balance de masa

4

  masa yard

7

  conservacion de la masa

4

  masa resorte sistema

7

  krytyczna masa

4

  de hojaldre masa

7

  masa molar

4

  masa para pizza

7

  flour masa

4

  aumento de masa muscular

7

  hojaldre la masa

4

  masa recipe

6

  job masa site

4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Bible Trace: Masa

LanguageDateSourceGenesis Chapter 25, Verse 14
Greek (transliterated)250 BCSeptuagintKai masma kai idouma kai massh
Latin405VulgateMasma quoque et Duma et Massa
Middle English1395WyclifAnd Mabsan, and Masma, and Duma,
Renaissance English1526TyndaleMisma Duma Masa
Jacobean English1611King JamesAnd Mishma, and Dumah, and Massa,
Victorian English1833WebsterAnd Mishma, and Dumah, and Massa,
Basic English1964OgdenAnd Mishma and Dumah and Massa,

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Matched Bible Translations: Masa

LanguageGenesis Chapter 25, Verse 14
BulgarianМасма, "ума, Маса,
CebuanoUg si Misma, ug si Duma, ug si Massa,
CroatianMišma, Duma, Masa,
DanishMisjma, Duma, Massa,
DutchEn Misma, en Duma, en Massa,
FinnishMisma, Duuma, Massa,
FrenchMischma, Duma, Massa,
GermanMisma, Duma, Massa,
Haitian CreoleMichma, Douma, Masa,
HungarianÉs Misma, Dúmah és Massza.
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lamadan Misma dan Duma dan Masa
ItalianMisma, Duma, Massa,
Korean미 스 마 와, 두 마 와, 맛 사 와,
MaoriKo Mihima, ko Ruma, ko Maha,
Norwegianog Misma og Duma og Massa,
PortugueseMisma, Dumá, Massá,   
RumanianMiwma, Duma, Masa;
RussianнЙЫНБ, дХНБ, нБУУБ,
SpanishMisma, Duma, Masá,
SwedishMisma, Duma och Massa,
UkrainianІ Мішма, і "ума, і Масса,

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations: Masa

Derivations

Words ending with "Masa": abomasa, omasa. (additional references)

Words containing "Masa": abomasal. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Masa

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: amas.

Words within the letters "a-a-m-s"

-1 letter: aas, ama, mas.

-2 letters: aa, am, as, ma.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-m-s"
 

+1 letter: agmas, almas, amahs, amass, amias, atmas, camas, gamas, lamas, maars, mamas, manas, massa, mayas, omasa, samba.

 

+2 letters: abamps, abomas, admass, agamas, ahimsa, alamos, alarms, almahs, amazes, amebas, amigas, amusia, animas, aromas, asarum, ashman, ashram, asrama, asthma, aswarm, atmans, balsam, camass, camisa, damans, damars, damask, dramas, gamays, gambas, gammas, gasman, gramas, halmas, hamals, hamzas, kalams, karmas, lamias, lampas, llamas, macaws, madams, madras, mafias, magmas, makars, malars, mambas, mammas, manats, manias, mannas, mantas, massas, matsah, matzas, miasma, pampas, plasma, praams, salaam, salami, samara, sambar, sambas, samosa, sampan, seaman, shaman, shamas, shazam, somata, squama, tamals, ulamas, yasmak, zamias.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Masa


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4D 61 73 61

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

--    .-    ...    .-

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001101 01100001 01110011 01100001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#97 &#115 &#97

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 0061 0073 0061

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

47678567

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Photo Album
6. Usage Frequency
7. Expressions
8. Expressions: Internet
9. Bible Trace
10. Abbreviations
11. Acronyms
12. Derivations
13. Anagrams
14. Orthography
15. Bibliography


  

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