Big vs Mass - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between big and mass

is that big is a biological insulation garment; an air-tight, full-body suit intended to prevent the spread of contaminants while mass is march.

big

English

Etymology 1

From a northern (etyl) dialectal term (m), .

Adjective

(bigger)

Of great size, large.

*:The big houses, and there are a good many of them, lie for the most part in what may be called by courtesy the valleys. You catch a glimpse of them sometimes at a little distance from the [railway] line,, with their court of farm and church and clustered village, in dignified seclusion.

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(lb) Thought to have undue influence.

Popular.

(lb) Adult.

*1931 , , Rudolph, The Red-Nosed Reindeer , Montgomery Ward (publisher), draft:

*:By midnight, however, the last light had fled / For even big people have then gone to bed[.]

(lb) Fat.

(lb) Important or significant.

*:"I was dragged up at the workhouse school till I was twelve. Then I ran away and sold papers in the streets, and anything else that I could pick up a few coppers by—except steal. I never did that. I always made up my mind I'd be a big man some day, and—I'm glad I didn't steal."

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Enthusiastic (about).

(lb) Mature, conscientious, principled.

(lb) Well-endowed, possessing large breasts in the case of a woman or a large penis in the case of a man.

Large with young; pregnant; swelling; ready to give birth or produce.

*(and other bibliographic details) (Joseph Addison) (1672–1719)

*:[Day] big with the fate of Cato and of Rome.

(lb)

Synonyms

* (of a great size) ample, huge, large, sizeable, stoor, jumbo, massive * (adult) adult, fully grown, grown up * See also

Antonyms

* (of a great size) little, small, tiny, minuscule, miniature, minute * (adult) little, young

Derived terms

* Big Apple * big-ass * big baby * big band * Big Bang * big bath * big beat * Big Ben * Big Bertha * big blind * big bluestem * Big Board * big-boned * big box * big boy/big boys * big break * big brother * Big Brother * big bucks * big business * big C * big cat * big cheese * Big Crunch * Big D * big daddy * big deal * Big Dipper * Big Easy * big enchilada * big end * big fat/big-fat/big phat * big figure * big fish * big fly * Big Four * big game * biggie, no biggie * big girl's blouse * big government * big gun * big H/Big H * big hair * big hand * big head/big-head * big-headed * big-hearted * big house * big idea * big if * big iron * Big Island * big kid * big labor * big-league * big lick * big lie * big lug * big kahuna * Big Mac * big money * big mouth * Big Muddy * big name / big-name * bigness * big O * big O notation * big old/big ole * big one/the big one * big pharma * big picture * Big Q * big rig * Big Rip * big science * big screen * big shagbank * big shot * big shoulder * big six/the big six * Big Six * big sleep * big slick * Big Smoke * big spender * big spring * big stick * Big Sur * big talk * big tent * Big Three * big-ticket * big time/big-time/bigtime * big toe * big top/big-top * big tree * Big Uglies * big up * big wheel * big whoop * big wig/big-wig/bigwig * big-wigged * big wow * great big * hit it big * make it big * /Mr Big/Mister Big * the bigs * too big for one's boots * too big to fail

Adverb

(bigger)

In a loud manner.

In a boasting manner.

He's always talking big , but he never delivers.

In a large amount or to a large extent.

He won big betting on the croquet championship.

On a large scale, expansively

You've got to think big to succeed at Amalgamated Plumbing.

Hard.

He hit him big and the guy just crumpled.

Noun

(en noun)

An important or powerful person; a celebrity; a big name.

(as plural) The big leagues, big time.

Synonyms

* (big leagues) major leagues

Verb

(up)

To praise or recommend

Etymology 2

From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) (m), . Cognate with (etyl) (m), (etyl) (m).

Verb

to inhabit; occupy

to locate one's self

to build; erect; fashion

to dwell; have a dwelling

Etymology 3

From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .

Alternative forms

* (l) * (l), (l) (obsolete)

Noun

(-)

One or more kinds of barley, especially (six-rowed barley).

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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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