Mass vs Through - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between mass and through

is that mass is march while through is a large slab of stone laid on a tomb.

As a preposition through is

from one side of an opening to the other.

As an adjective through is

passing from one side of an object to the other.

As an adverb through is

from one side to the other by way of the interior.

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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through

English

Alternative forms

* thorow (obsolete) * thru

Etymology 1

From (etyl) *. See also thorough.

Preposition

(English prepositions)

From one side of an opening to the other.

*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-01, volume=407, issue=8838

, page=13 (Technology Quarterly), magazine=(The Economist) , title= Ideas coming down the track , passage=A “moving platform” scheme

Entering, then later leaving.

*:Athelstan Arundel walked home all the way, foaming and raging.He walked the whole way, walking through crowds, and under the noses of dray-horses, carriage-horses, and cart-horses, without taking the least notice of them.

*:Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.

*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-05-25, volume=407, issue=8837, page=74, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= No hiding place , passage=In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result. If the bumf arrived electronically, the take-up rate was 0.1%. And for online adverts the “conversion” into sales was a minuscule 0.01%.}}

Surrounded by (while moving).

*, chapter=1

, title= Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.}}

*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=76, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Snakes and ladders , passage=Risk is everywhere.

By means of.

*{{quote-news, year=2011, date=September 28, author=Tom Rostance, title=Arsenal 2-1 Olympiakos

, work=BBC Sport citation , passage=But the home side were ahead in the eighth minute through 18-year-old Oxlade-Chamberlain.}}

*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= The attack of the MOOCs , passage=Since the launch early last year of […] two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations. University brands built in some cases over centuries have been forced to contemplate the possibility that information technology will rapidly make their existing business model obsolete.}}

(lb) To (or up to) and including, with all intermediate values.

Derived terms

(terms derived using the preposition "through") * clear through * feedthrough * get through * go through * look through * right through * through and through * through with * throughput * throughway

Adjective

(-)

Passing from one side of an object to the other.

Finished; complete.

Valueless; without a future.

No longer interested.

*:“I'm through with all pawn-games,” I laughed. “Come, let us have a game of lansquenet. Either I will take a farewell fall out of you or you will have your sevenfold revenge”.

*1977 , Iggy Pop,

*:I'm worth a million in prizes / Yeah, I'm through with sleeping on the sidewalk / No more beating my brains / No more beating my brains / With the liquor and drugs / With the liquor and drugs

Proceeding from origin to destination without delay due to change of equipment.

Adverb

(-)

From one side to the other by way of the interior.

The arrow went straight through .

From one end to the other.

Others slept; he worked straight through .

She read the letter through .

To the end.

He said he would see it through .

Completely.

Leave the yarn in the dye overnight so the color soaks through .

Out into the open.

The American army broke through at St. Lo.

References

* Andrea Tyler and Vyvyan Evans, "Bounded landmarks", in The Semantics of English Prepositions: Spatial Scenes, Embodied Meaning and Cognition , Cambridge University Press, 2003, 0-521-81430 8

Etymology 2

From (etyl)

Noun

(en noun)

A large slab of stone laid on a tomb.

Statistics

* 100 English basic words 200 English basic words English locatives