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Blue is a derived term of mass.



In in the plural terms the difference between mass and blue

is that mass is the lower classes of persons while blue is a blue uniform. See blues.

In transitive terms the difference between mass and blue

is that mass is to form or collect into a mass; to form into a collective body; to bring together into masses; to assemble while blue is to treat the surface of steel so that it is passivated chemically and becomes more resistant to rust.

In lang=en terms the difference between mass and blue

is that mass is a musical composition set to portions of the Mass while blue is a member of law enforcement.

As a proper noun Blue is

{{surname|from=German}} An anglicization of German {{term|Blau|lang=de}}.

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.
    • See also
    * Customary units: slug, pound, ounce, long ton (1.12 short tons), short ton (commonly used) * Metric units: gram (g), kilogram (kg), metric ton
    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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    blue

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (obsolete) * (obsolete)

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Of the colour blue.
  • (lb) Depressed, melancholic, sad.
  • *
  • *:“Heavens!” exclaimed Nina, “the blue'-stocking and the fogy!—and yours ''are'' pale '''blue , Eileen!—you’re about as self-conscious as Drina—slumping there with your hair tumbling ''à la Mérode! Oh, it's very picturesque, of course, but a straight spine and good grooming is better.”
  • Pale, without redness or glare; said of a flame.
  • Pornographic or profane.
  • (lb) Supportive of, run by (a member of), pertaining to, or dominated by a political party represented by the colour blue.
  • #
  • # Supportive of or related to the Liberal Party.
  • (lb) Of the higher-frequency region of the part of the electromagnetic spectrum which is relevant in the specific observation.
  • (lb) Extra rare; left very raw and cold.
  • (lb) Possessing a coat of fur that is a shade of gray.
  • (lb) Severe or overly strict in morals; gloomy.
  • literary; bluestockinged.
  • * (William Makepeace Thackeray) (1811-1863)
    • The ladies were very blue and well informed.
  • (lb) Having a color charge of blue.

    • Antonyms

    * (having blue as its colour) nonblue, unblue

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The colour of the clear sky or the deep sea, between green and violet in the visible spectrum, and one of the primary additive colours for transmitted light; the colour obtained by subtracting red and green from white light using magenta and cyan filters; or any colour resembling this.
  • A blue dye or pigment.
  • Any of several processes to protect metal against rust.
  • Blue clothing
    • The boys in blue marched to the pipers.
  • (in the plural) A blue uniform. See blues.
  • (slang) A member of law enforcement
  • The sky, literally or figuratively.
    • The ball came out of the blue and cracked his windshield.
    ''His request for leave came out of the blue .
  • The ocean; deep waters.
  • Anything blue, especially to distinguish it from similar objects differing only in color.
  • (snooker) One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of 5 points.
  • Any of the blue-winged butterflies of the subfamily in the family Lycaenidae.
  • A bluefish.
  • (Australia, colloquial) An argument.
  • * 2008 , Cheryl Jorgensen, The Taint , page 135,
    • If they had a blue between themselves, they kept it there, it never flowed out onto the streets to innocent people — like a lot of things that have been happenin? on the streets today.
  • * 2009 , John Gilfoyle, Remember Cannon Hill , page 102,
    • On another occasion, there was a blue between Henry Daniels and Merv Wilson down at the pig sale. I don?t know what it was about, it only lasted a minute or so, but they shook hands when it was over and that was the end of it.
  • * 2011 , Julietta Jameson, Me, Myself and Lord Byron , unnumbered page,
    • I was a bit disappointed. Was that it? No abuse like Lord Byron had endured? Not that I was wishing that upon myself. It was just that a blue between my parents, albeit a raging, foul, bile-spitting hate fest, was not exactly Charles Dickens.
  • A liquid with an intense blue colour, added to a laundry wash to prevent yellowing of white clothes.
  • (British) A type of firecracker.
  • (archaic) A pedantic woman; a bluestocking.
  • (particle physics) One of the three color charges for quarks.

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    Verb

  • (ergative) To make or become blue.
  • (metallurgy) To treat the surface of steel so that it is passivated chemically and becomes more resistant to rust.
  • (slang) To spend (money) extravagantly; to blow.
  • * 1974 , (GB Edwards), The Book of Ebenezer Le Page , New York 2007, p. 311:
    • They was willing to blue the lot and have nothing left when they got home except debts on the never-never.

    Derived terms

    * antiblue * between the devil and the deep blue sea * bice blue * black and blue * blue baby * blue bag * Blue Bird * blue blood * blue book * blue box * blue cat * blue catfish * blue cheese * blue chip * blue circle rate * blue cod * blue cohosh * blue crab * blue curls * blue devils * blue duck * Blue Ensign * blue flag * blue flier * blue flu * blue fox * blue funk * blue gound * blue gouse * blue gum * blue heaven * blue heeler * blue helmet * blue heron * blue jay * blue jeans * blue john * blue law * blue line * blue list * Blue Mantle * blue mold * blue Monday * blue moon * blue movie * Blue Nile * blue note * blue ointment * blue pages * blue pencil * Blue Peter * blue pike * blue plate * blue point * blue racer * blue riband * Blue Ridge * blue rinse * blue runner * blue shark * blue sheep * blue spruce * blue state * blue streak * blue vitriol * blue wall of silence * blue water * blue whale * blue wren * blueback * blueback salmon * bluebeard * bluebeat * bluebell * blueberry * bluebill * bluebird * blue-black * blue-blooded * bluebonnet * bluebottle * blue-chip * bluecoat * blue-collar * bluecurls * blue-eyed boy * blue-eyed grass * blue-eyed Mar * blue-eyed soul * bluefin * bluefin tuna * bluefish * bluegill * bluegrass * blue-green alga * blueing * blueish * bluejacket * bluely * blueness * bluenose * blue-pencil * blue-plate * bluepoint * blueprint * blue-ribbon * bluerinse * blue-rinse * blues * blueshift * blue-sky * blue-sky law * bluesman * bluestem * bluestocking * bluestone * bluesy * bluet * blue-tile fever * bluetit * bluetongue * blue-water * blueweed * bluey * bluing * bluish * bluishness * blut tit * bolt from the blue * boys in blue * Cambridge blue * cobalt blue * code blue * Colorado blue spruce * common blue * Copenhagen blue * cordon bleu * cornflower blue * cry blue murder * Danish blue * dark blue * duck-egg blue * eggshell blue * electric-blue * genetian blue * go blue * half-blue * ice blue * in a blue funk * indigo blue * iron blue * Kerry blue terrier * light blue * methylene blue * midnight blue * navy blue * Nile blue * once in a blue moon * out of the blue * Oxford blue * peacock blue * petrol blue * powder blue * Prussian blue * pygmy blue * robin's-egg blue * royal blue * Russian blue * saxe blue * Saxon blue * scream blue murder * * sky blue * slate blue * steel blue * Tasmanian blue gum * the blues * true-blue * trypan blue * until one is blue in the face * Wedgwood blue

    See also

    * * * * Havasupai * primary colour * rainbow * RGB

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