Bar vs Mass - What's the difference?

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Bar is a related term of mass.

As nouns the difference between bar and mass

is that bar is bar while mass is march.

bar

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) . May well have been reinforced by existing Old English term from the same root.

Noun

A solid, more or less rigid object of metal or wood with a uniform cross-section smaller than its length.

The window was protected by steel bars .

(countable, uncountable, metallurgy) A solid metal object with uniform (round, square, hexagonal, octagonal or rectangular) cross-section; in the US its smallest dimension is .25 inch or greater, a piece of thinner material being called a strip.

Ancient Sparta used iron bars instead of handy coins in more valuable alloy, to physically discourage the use of money.

We are expecting a carload of bar tomorrow.

A cuboid piece of any solid commodity.

bar of chocolate

bar of soap

A broad shaft, or band, or stripe.

a bar''' of light; a '''bar of colour

A long, narrow drawn or printed rectangle, cuboid or cylinder, especially as used in a bar code or a bar chart.

A diacritical mark that consists of a line drawn through a grapheme. (For example, turning A' into ' ? .)

A business licensed to sell alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises, or the premises themselves; public house.

The street was lined with all-night bars .

The counter of such a premises.

Step up to the bar and order a drink.

A counter, or simply a cabinet, from which alcoholic drinks are served in a private house or a hotel room.

In combinations such as coffee bar, juice bar, etc., a premises or counter serving non-alcoholic drinks.

An official order or pronouncement that prohibits some activity.

The club has lifted its bar on women members.

Anything that obstructs, hinders, or prevents; an obstruction; a barrier.

* Dryden

Must I new bars to my own joy create?

(computing, whimsical, derived from fubar) A metasyntactic variable representing an unspecified entity, often the second in a series, following foo.

Suppose we have two objects, foo and bar .

(UK, legal) The railing surrounding the part of a courtroom in which the judges, lawyers, defendants and witnesses stay

The Bar exam, the legal licensing exam.

He's studying hard to pass the Bar this time; he's failed it twice before.

(music) A vertical line across a musical staff dividing written music into sections, typically of equal durational value.

(music) One of those musical sections.

(sports) A horizontal pole that must be crossed in high jump and pole vault

(soccer) The crossbar

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(backgammon) The central divider between the inner and outer table of a backgammon board, where stones are placed if they are hit.

An addition to a military medal, on account of a subsequent act

A linear shoaling landform feature within a body of water.

(nautical, hydrology) A ridge or succession of ridges of sand or other substance, especially a formation extending across the mouth of a river or harbor or off a beach, and which may obstruct navigation. (FM 55-501).

(heraldiccharge) One of the ordinaries in heraldry; a fess.

An informal unit of measure of signal strength for a wireless device such as a cell phone.

There were no bars so I didn't get your text.

A city gate, in some British place names.

Potter's Bar

(mining) A drilling or tamping rod.

(mining) A vein or dike crossing a lode.

(architecture) A gatehouse of a castle or fortified town.

(farriery) The part of the crust of a horse's hoof which is bent inwards towards the frog at the heel on each side, and extends into the centre of the sole.

(farriery, in the plural) The space between the tusks and grinders in the upper jaw of a horse, in which the bit is placed.

Synonyms

* (business licensed to sell intoxicating beverages) barroom, ginshop, pub (British ), public house, tavern * (official order prohibiting some activity) ban, prohibition * measure * See also

Derived terms

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * barring * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * disbar, disbarment * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

Verb

(barr)

To obstruct the passage of (someone or something).

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Watch for me by moonlight,

I'll come to thee by moonlight, though Hell should bar the way."

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Our way was barred by a huge rockfall.

To prohibit.

I couldn't get into the nightclub because I had been barred .

To lock or bolt with a bar.

bar the door

to imprint or paint with bars, to stripe

* 1899 ,

I lived in a hut in the yard, but to be out of the chaos I would sometimes get into the accountant’s office. It was built of horizontal planks, and so badly put together that, as he bent over his high desk, he was barred from neck to heels with narrow strips of sunlight.

Synonyms

* (obstruct) block, hinder, obstruct * (prohibit) ban, interdict, prohibit * (lock or bolt with a bar) * See also

Derived terms

* *

Preposition

(English prepositions)

Except, with the exception of.

He invited everyone to his wedding bar his ex-wife.

(horse racing)

Leg At Each Corner is at 3/1, Lost My Shirt 5/1, and it's 10/1 bar .

Synonyms

* apart from, barring, except, except for, excluding, other than, save

Derived terms

* *

References

Etymology 2

From (etyl) , coined circa 1900.

Noun

(en noun)

A non-SI unit of pressure equal to 100,000 pascals, approximately equal to atmospheric pressure at sea level.

Derived terms

* * *

Anagrams

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mass

English

Etymology 1

In late (etyl) (circa 1400) as masse in the sense of "lump, quantity of matter", from (etyl) masse, in (etyl) attested from the 11th century, via late (etyl) . The sense of "a large number or quantity" arises circa 1580. The scientific sense is from 1687 (as Latin massa) in the works of , with the first English use (as mass) occurring in 1704.

Noun

(label) Matter, material.

# A quantity of matter cohering together so as to make one body, or an aggregation of particles or things which collectively make one body or quantity, usually of considerable size; as, a mass of ore, metal, sand, or water.

#* 1718 [1704], (w), (Opticks), Second Edition:

And if it were not for the?e Principles the Bodies of the Earth, Planets, Comets, Sun, and all things in them would grow cold and freeze, and become inactive Ma??es ; .

#* 1821 , (George Buchanan) (Latin original Rerum Scoticarum Historia'', 1582), translator not named, ''The History of Scotland, from the Earliest Accounts of that Nation, to the Reign of King James VI , Volume 1, page 133,

and because a deep mass of continual sea is slower stirred to rage.

# (label) Precious metal, especially gold or silver.

#* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , IV.10:

Right in the midst the Goddesse selfe did stand / Upon an altar of some costly masse […].

# (label) The quantity of matter which a body contains, irrespective of its bulk or volume. It is one of four fundamental properties of matter. It is measured in kilograms in the SI system of measurement.

# (label) A medicinal substance made into a cohesive, homogeneous lump, of consistency suitable for making pills; as, blue mass.

# (label) A palpable or visible abnormal globular structure; a tumor.

# (label) Excess body weight, especially in the form of muscle hypertrophy.

#* 1988 , Steve Holman, "Christian Conquers Columbus", 47 (6): 28-34.

After all, muscle maniacs go "ga ga" over mass no matter how it's presented.

A large quantity; a sum.

* 1829 , Sir (Walter Raleigh), The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, Kt , Volume VIII,

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.

* 1869 , Alexander George Richey, Lectures on the History of Ireland: Down to A. D. 1534 , page 204,

For though he had spent a huge mass of treasure in transporting his army, .

(label) Large in number.

# Bulk; magnitude; body; size.

#* c.1599-1601 , (William Shakespeare), , Act 4, Scene 4,

Witness this army of such mass and charge / Led by a delicate and tender prince,

# The principal part; the main body.

#* 1881 , (Thucydides), (Benjamin Jowett) Thucydides translated into English , Volume 1, page 310,

Night closed upon the pursuit, and aided the mass of the fugitives in their escape.

# A large body of individuals, especially persons.

# (label) The lower classes of persons.

Derived terms

* blue mass * critical mass * land mass, landmass * mass burial * mass center * mass copper * mass culture * mass destruction * mass defect * mass energy * mass extinction * mass flow * mass funeral * mass grave * mass hysteria * mass market * mass media * mass medium * mass murder * mass murderer * mass noun * mass number * mass of maneuver * mass produce * mass production * mass shift * mass spectrometer * mass spectrometry * mass starvation * mass surveillance * mass transfer * mass transit * mass transportation * mass wasting * Planck mass * reduced mass * the masses

Verb

(es)

To form or collect into a mass; to form into a collective body; to bring together into masses; to assemble.

* 1829 , William Burke, John Macnee, Trial of William Burke and Helen M'Dougal: Before the High Court of Judiciary, William Hare ,

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.

* 1857 , Edward Henry Nolan, The Illustrated History of the War against Russia , Parts 93-111, page 432,

Every bend on the hill had acted like a funnel to mass them together in this peculiar way.

* 1869 , H. P. Robinson, Pictorial Effect in Photography: Being Hints on Composition and Chiariscuro for Photographers ,

Where there is too great a repetition of forms, light and shade will break them up or mass them together.

To have a certain mass.

I mass 70 kilograms

Adjective

(-)

Involving a mass of things; concerning a large quantity or number.

There is evidence of mass extinctions in the distant past.

* 1988 , V. V. Zagladin, Vitaly Baskakov, International Working Class and Communist Movement: Historical Record, 1830s to Mid-1940s , page 236,

The national liberation movement had not yet developed to a sufficiently mass scale.

* 1989 , Creighton Peden, Larry E. Axel (editors), God, Values, and Empiricism: Issues in Philosophical Theology , page 2,

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; .

* 2010 , John Horne, A Companion to World War I , page 159,

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.

Involving a mass of people; of, for, or by the masses.

Mass unemployment resulted from the financial collapse.

* 1958 , Child Welfare, volume 37, page 2:

Every agency is sold on use of mass' media today — or at least, it thinks it is — and what can be "' masser " than television?

* 1970 , James Wilson White, The S?kagakkai and Mass Society , page 3,

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."

* 1974 , Edward Abraham Cohn, The Political Economy of Environmental Enhancement , page 91:

Undoubtedly this is the case; at least it is "masser " than in Pinchot's time.

* 1999 December, Sara Miles, Rebel with a Cause'', in '' , page 132,

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.

* 2000 , Howie Klein, Queer as role models'', in ''The Advocate , number 825, 21 November 2000, page 9:

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 [...]

* 2001 , Brian Moeran. Asian Media Productions , page 13:

[...] if only because it promises the ‘massest'’ of ' mass markets.

* 2004 , John R. Hall, Gone from the Promised Land: Jonestown in American Cultural History , page 79,

Finally, in the past century, secular culture itself has undergone a transition from predominantly folk styles to an overwhelmingly mass culture, .

* 2007 , Thomas Peele, Queer popular culture: literature, media, film, and television , page 11:

As a right, we come to expect it, and that happens through the mass' media, the ' massest of which, by far, is television.

Derived terms

* mass extinction

Etymology 2

From (etyl) masse, from (etyl) . More at (l).

Noun

(es)

(Christianity) The Eucharist, now especially in Roman Catholicism.

(Christianity) Celebration of the Eucharist.

The sacrament of the Eucharist.

A musical setting of parts of the mass.

Verb

(es)

(obsolete) To celebrate mass.

(Hooker)

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