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Mas·sive  (msv), Mount
A peak, 4,398.4 m (14,421 ft) high, in the Sawatch Range of the Rocky Mountains in central Colorado.

mas·sive  (msv)
adj.
1. Consisting of or making up a large mass; bulky, heavy, and solid: a massive piece of furniture.
2. Large or imposing, as in quantity, scope, degree, intensity, or scale: "Local defense must be reinforced by the further deterrent of massive retaliatory power" (John Foster Dulles). See Synonyms at heavy.
3. Large in comparison with the usual amount: a massive dose of a drug.
4. Pathology Affecting a large area of bodily tissue; widespread and severe: massive gangrene.
5. Mineralogy Lacking internal crystalline structure; amorphous.
6. Geology Without internal structure or layers and homogeneous in composition. Used of a rock.

[Middle English massif, from Old French, from masse, mass; see mass.]

massive·ly adv.
massive·ness n.
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Adv.1.massively - to a massive degree or in a massive manner; "tonight the haddock were shoaling massively in three hundred fathoms"
Translations
massively [ˈmæsɪvlɪ] ADV [overweight] → tremendamente; [popular] → tremendamente, enormemente; [invest] → a gran escala; [increase] → enormemente
massively [ˈmæsɪvli] adv
[rise, increase] → massivement
Interest rates will rise massively → Les taux d'intérêt augmenteront massivement.
[popular, important] → immensément
a massively popular game → un jeu immensément populaire
to be massively successful → remporter un succès immense
mass market
modif [product, brand, paperback, car] → grand public inv; [appeal] → pour le grand public
mass marketing ncommercialisation f de masse
mass media npl
the mass media → les médias, les médias grand public
mass media mass-media [ˌmæsˈmɛdiə] modif [violence] → des médias; [images] → des médias; [coverage] → des médias
mass meeting nrassemblement m de masse
mass movement nmouvement m de masse
mass murder nmeurtre m de masse
mass murderer nmeurtrier/ière m/f de masse
mass-produce [ˌmæsprəˈdjuːs] vtproduire en série
mass-produced [ˈmæsprəˈdjuːst] adj [goods] → de série
mass production nproduction f de masse, production f en série
mass transit n (US) (= public transportation) → transport m en commun
massively
adv (= hugely) popular, expensive, increaseenorm; (= bulkily) mademassiv; a massively built manein Schrank mvon einem Mann; massively in debtenorm verschuldet; to invest/borrow massivelyriesige Summen investieren/aufnehmen


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Casaubon was altogether right, she recovered her equanimity, and was an agreeable image of serene dignity when she came into the drawing-room in her silver-gray dress--the simple lines of her dark-brown hair parted over her brow and coiled massively behind, in keeping with the entire absence from her manner and expression of all search after mere effect.
In an office that might have been on the ground-floor of the Tower of Babel, it was so massively constructed, we were presented to our old schoolmaster; who was one of a group, composed of two or three of the busier sort of magistrates, and some visitors they had brought.
I could see even in th e dim light that the stone was massively carved, but that the carving had been much worn by time and weather.
 
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