mass
Part of speech: noun
verb
adj
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: In late Middle English (circa 1400) as masse in the sense of "lump, quantity of matter", from Anglo-Norman masse, in Old French attested from the 11th century, via late Latin massa (“lump, dough”), from Ancient Greek μᾶζα (mâza, “barley-cake, lump (of dough)”). The Greek noun may be derived from the verb μάσσω (mássō, “to knead”), ultimately from a Proto-Indo-European *maǵ- (“to oil, knead”), although this is uncertain. Doublet of masa.
The sense of "a large number or quantity" arises circa 1580. The scientific sense is from 1687 (as Latin massa) in the works of Isaac Newton, with the first English use (as mass) occurring in 1704.
Inflected forms:
form: masses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: masses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: massing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: massed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: massed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: masser
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: massest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Matter, material.
pos: noun
tags: countable
physical
uncountable
examples: And if it were not for theſe Principles the Bodies of the Earth, Planets, Comets, Sun, and all things in them would grow cold and freeze, and become inactive Maſſes ; […].
[…] and because a deep mass of continual sea is slower stirred to rage.
gloss: Matter, material.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
physical
uncountable
examples: Right in the midst the Goddesse selfe did stand / Upon an altar of some costly masse […].
gloss: Matter, material.
pos: noun
tags: countable
physical
uncountable
gloss: Matter, material.
pos: noun
tags: countable
physical
uncountable
examples: blue mass
gloss: Matter, material.
pos: noun
tags: countable
physical
uncountable
gloss: Matter, material.
pos: noun
tags: countable
physical
uncountable
examples: After all, muscle maniacs go "ga ga" over mass no matter how it's presented.
gloss: A large quantity; a sum.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: […]he hath discovered to me the way to five or six of the richest mines which the Spaniard hath, and whence all the mass of gold that comes into Spain in effect is drawn.
For though he had spent a huge mass of treasure in transporting his army, […].
gloss: A large quantity; a sum.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Witness this army of such mass and charge / Led by a delicate and tender prince,
gloss: A large quantity; a sum.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Night closed upon the pursuit, and aided the mass of the fugitives in their escape.
gloss: A large quantity; a sum.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The mass of spectators didn't see the infraction on the field.
A mass of ships converged on the beaches of Dunkirk.
Generals gathered in their masses / Just like witches at black masses
gloss: A large quantity; a sum.
pos: noun
tags: countable
in-plural
uncountable
examples: The masses are revolting.
gloss: To form or collect into a mass; to form into a collective body; to assemble.
pos: verb
tags: ergative
examples: They would unavoidably mix up the whole of these declarations, and mass them together, although the Judge might direct the Jury not to do so.
Every bend on the hill had acted like a funnel to mass them together in this peculiar way.
Where there is too great a repetition of forms, light and shade will break them up or mass them together.
gloss: Involving a mass of things; concerning a large quantity or number.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
usually
examples: There is evidence of mass extinctions in the distant past.
The national liberation movement had not yet developed to a sufficiently mass scale.
With perhaps unprecedented magnitude and clarity, Auschwitz brings theologians and philosophers face to face with the facts of suffering on an incredibly mass scale, with issues poignantly raised concerning the absence of divine intervention or the inadequacies of divine power or benevolence; […].
The air arms did more than provide the warring nations with individual heroes, for their individual exploits occurred within the context of an increasingly mass aerial effort in a war of the masses.
gloss: Involving a mass of people; of, for, or by the masses.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
usually
examples: Mass unemployment resulted from the financial collapse.
Every agency is sold on use of mass media today — or at least, it thinks it is — and what can be "masser" than television?
While agreeing with Bell on the unlikelihood that any fully mass — in the sense of atomized and alienated — society has ever existed,⁵ I believe that at any point in time, in any social system, some elements may be characterized as "masses."
Undoubtedly this is the case; at least it is "masser" than in Pinchot's time.
But it also highlights the changes that have taken place in gay and AIDS activism, and the way that a formerly mass movement has been recast.
The director didn't make the images up; they're there, but in putting that one slice of gay life into the massest of mass media — the amoral promiscuity, the drug and alcohol abuse, the stereotyped flamboyance and campiness, the bitchy queeniness and flimsy values — something very dangerous happens […]
[…] if only because it promises the ‘massest’ of mass markets.
Finally, in the past century, secular culture itself has undergone a transition from predominantly folk styles to an overwhelmingly mass culture, […].
As a right, we come to expect it, and that happens through the mass media, the massest of which, by far, is television.
The writing has been on the wall that Americans’ support for mass deportation was subject to all kinds of caveats and provisos.
Derived words: active gravitational mass
airmass
air mass
atomic mass
biomass
blue mass
bodymass
center of mass
centre of mass
conservation of mass
coronal mass ejection
critical mass
dry mass
Earth mass
gravitational mass
inertial mass
Jupiter mass
landmass
land mass
law of conservation of mass
low mass star
mass balance
mass center
mass copper
mass defect
mass density
mass distribution
mass driver
mass effect
mass-energy
mass energy
mass finishing
mass flow
mass fraction
mass gainer
massless
mass line
mass man
mass monster
mass noun
mass number
mass of maneuver
mass register
mass shift
mass spec
mass spectrograph
mass spectrometer
mass spectrometry
mass spectrum
mass transfer
mass wasting
mineralomass
molar mass
molecular mass
mulberry mass
paraphrase mass
Planck mass
point mass
pound-mass
reaction mass
reduced mass
relativistic mass
rest mass
solar mass
subcritical mass
supercritical mass
the masses
thermal mass
very low mass star
wet mass
working mass
admass
comass
dendromass
downmass
eggmass
eigenmass
groundmass
isomass
mascon
maskin
masscom
masscult
massful
massic
massification
massifier
massify
masslike
massly
massness
masstige
massy
micromass
necromass
phytomass
pseudomass
rockmass
sociomass
submass
thermomass
upmass
zoomass
mass shooter
mass burial
mass communication
mass culture
mass destruction
mass difference
mass extinction
mass favourite
mass funeral
mass grave
mass haul diagram
mass hysteria
mass market
mass media
mass medium
mass murder
mass murderer
mass-produce
mass production
mass report
mass shooting
mass spam
mass start
mass starvation
mass storage
mass suicide
mass surveillance
mass transit
mass transportation
mass vaccination centre
weapon of mass disruption
Translations:
lang: Armenian
word: զանգված
roman: zangvac
lang: Asturian
word: masa
lang: Bulgarian
word: голямо количество
roman: goljamo količestvo
lang: Bulgarian
word: ма́са
roman: mása
lang: Dutch
word: massa
lang: Dutch
word: hoeveelheid
lang: Esperanto
word: amaso
lang: Finnish
word: massa
lang: German
word: Masse
lang: Gothic
word: 𐌷𐌹𐌿𐌷𐌼𐌰
roman: hiuhma
lang: Greek
word: μάζα
roman: máza
lang: Hungarian
word: tömeg
lang: Italian
word: massa
lang: Macedonian
word: маса
roman: masa
lang: Portuguese
word: monte
lang: Russian
word: ма́сса
roman: mássa
lang: Slovene
word: masa
lang: Swahili
word: mshikano
lang: Albanian
word: masë
lang: Arabic
word: كُتْلَة
roman: kutla
lang: Arabic
word: وَزْن
roman: wazn
lang: Armenian
word: զանգված
roman: zangvac
lang: Asturian
word: masa
lang: Azerbaijani
word: kütlə
lang: Basque
word: masa
lang: Belarusian
word: ма́са
roman: mása
lang: Bengali
word: ভর
roman: bhor
lang: Breton
word: tolz
lang: Bulgarian
word: ма́са
roman: mása
lang: Burmese
word: ဒြပ်ထု
roman: draphtu.
lang: Catalan
word: massa
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 質量 /质量
roman: zhìliàng, zhíliàng
lang: Czech
word: hmotnost
lang: Czech
word: váha
lang: Danish
word: vægt
lang: Danish
word: masse
lang: Dutch
word: massa
lang: Esperanto
word: maso
lang: Estonian
word: mass
lang: Faroese
word: vekt
lang: Faroese
word: massi
lang: Finnish
word: massa
lang: Finnish
word: paino
lang: French
word: masse
lang: Georgian
word: მასა
roman: masa
lang: German
word: Masse
lang: Greek
word: μάζα
roman: máza
lang: Ancient Greek
word: ὄγκος
roman: ónkos
lang: Haitian Creole
word: mas
lang: Hebrew
word: מַסָּה
roman: mása
lang: Hindi
word: द्रव्यमान
roman: dravyamān
lang: Hungarian
word: tömeg
lang: Icelandic
word: massi
lang: Italian
word: massa
lang: Japanese
word: 質量
roman: shitsuryō
lang: Japanese
word: 重さ
roman: omosa
lang: Japanese
word: 重量
roman: jūryō
lang: Japanese
word: 荷重
roman: kajū
lang: Kazakh
word: масса
roman: massa
lang: Khmer
word: ម៉ាស
roman: maah
lang: Korean
word: 질량
roman: jillyang
lang: Kyrgyz
word: масса
roman: massa
lang: Lao
word: ມວນ
roman: mūan
lang: Latvian
word: masa
lang: Lithuanian
word: masė
lang: Macedonian
word: маса
roman: masa
lang: Malay
word: jisim
lang: Malay
word: massa
lang: Malay
word: berat
lang: Malayalam
word: പിണ്ഡം
roman: piṇḍaṁ
lang: Malayalam
word: ദ്രവ്യമാനം
roman: dravyamānaṁ
lang: Māori
word: papatipu
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: masse
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: masse
lang: Persian
word: جرم
roman: jerm
lang: Persian
word: توده
roman: tude
lang: Polish
word: masa
lang: Portuguese
word: massa
lang: Romanian
word: masă
lang: Russian
word: ма́сса
roman: mássa
lang: Scots
word: weicht
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: маса
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: masa
lang: Slovak
word: hmotnosť
lang: Slovak
word: váha
lang: Slovene
word: masa
lang: Spanish
word: masa
lang: Swedish
word: massa
lang: Swedish
word: vikt
lang: Tagalog
word: bugat
lang: Tajik
word: масса
roman: massa
lang: Thai
word: มวล
roman: muuan
lang: Turkish
word: kütle
lang: Turkish
word: ağırlık
lang: Ukrainian
word: ма́са
roman: mása
lang: Urdu
word: کمیت
roman: kamiyat
lang: Uzbek
word: massa
lang: Vietnamese
word: khối lượng
lang: Welsh
word: màs