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mass | trade |

As a noun mass

is march.

As a verb trade is

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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.
  • 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)

    Anagrams

    * *

    trade

    English

    (wikipedia trade)

    Noun

  • (uncountable) Buying and selling of goods and services on a market.
  • (countable) A particular instance of buying or selling.
  • I did no trades with them once the rumors started.
  • (countable) An instance of bartering items in exchange for one another.
  • * 1989 , (Bruce Pandolfini), Chess Openings: Traps and Zaps , ISBN 0671656902, "Glossary" section, page 225 [http://books.google.com/books?id=pocVITTr8tMC&pg=PA225&dq=trade]:
  • EXCHANGE — A trade or swap of no material profit to either side.
  • * 2009 , Elliott Kalb and Mark Weinstein, The 30 Greatest Sports Conspiracy Theories of All Time , ISBN 9781602396784, page 60 [http://books.google.com/books?id=nQd8MHuaXysC&pg=PA60&dq=trade]:
  • When Golden State matched the Knicks' offer sheet, the Warriors and Knicks worked out a trade that sent King to New York for Richardson.
  • (countable) Those who perform a particular kind of skilled work.
  • The skilled trades were the first to organize modern labor unions.
  • (countable) Those engaged in an industry or group of related industries.
  • It is not a retail showroom. It is only for the trade .
  • (countable) The skilled practice of a practical occupation.
  • He learned his trade as an apprentice.
  • * {{quote-book, year=2006, author=
  • , title=Internal Combustion , chapter=2, url=http://openlibrary.org/works/OL4103950W , passage=But through the oligopoly, charcoal fuel proliferated throughout London's trades and industries.  By the 1200s, brewers and bakers, tilemakers, glassblowers, pottery producers, and a range of other craftsmen all became hour-to-hour consumers of charcoal.}}
  • (uncountable, UK) The business given to a commercial establishment by its customers.
  • Even before noon there was considerable trade .
  • (mostly, in the plural) Steady winds blowing from east to west above and below the equator.
  • They rode the trades going west.
  • * James Horsburgh
  • the north-east trade
  • (only as plural) A publication intended for participants in an industry or related group of industries.
  • Rumors about layoffs are all over the trades .
  • (uncountable, LGBT, slang) A brief sexual encounter.
  • Josh picked up some trade last night.
  • (obsolete, uncountable) Instruments of any occupation.
  • * Dryden
  • the house and household goods, his trade of war
  • (mining) Refuse or rubbish from a mine.
  • (obsolete) A track or trail; a way; a path; passage.
  • * Surrey
  • A postern with a blind wicket there was, / A common trade to pass through Priam's house.
  • * Spenser
  • Hath tracted forth some salvage beastes trade .
  • * Shakespeare
  • Or, I'll be buried in the king's highway, / Some way of common trade , where subjects' feet / May hourly trample on their sovereign's head.
  • (obsolete) Course; custom; practice; occupation.
  • * Udall
  • the right trade of religion
  • * Spenser
  • There those five sisters had continual trade .
  • * Massinger
  • Long did I love this lady, / Long was my travel, long my trade to win her.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Thy sin's not accidental but a trade .

    Derived terms

    * antitrade/anti-trade * balance of trade * basket trade * block trade * bullet trade * carbon trade * carriage trade * carry trade * carousel trade * cash and carry trade * coasting trade * countertrade * cross-trade * day trade * fair trade * free trade * horse trade * invisible trade * jack of all trades * motor trade * off-trade * on-trade * out trade * paper trade * rag trade * restraint of trade * rough trade * reverse of trade * slave trade * spot trade * stock-in-trade * terms of trade * trade barrier * trade card * trade deficit * trade dispute * trade fair * trade magazine * trade mark/trademark * trade name * trade newspaper * trade-off * trade route * trade secret * trade show * trade standard * trade surplus * trade term * trade union * trade war * trade wind * trader * tradesman * tradesperson * uptick trade * visible trade

    Synonyms

    * (the commercial exchange of goods and services) commerce * (the collective people who perform a particular kind of skilled work) business * (the skilled practice of a practical occupation) craft * (An instance of buying and selling) deal, barter * (the business given to a commercial establishment by its customers) patronage

    Verb

    (trad)
  • To engage in trade
  • This company trades in precious metal.
  • * Arbuthnot
  • a free port, where nations resorted with their goods and traded
  • To be traded at a certain price or under certain conditions.
  • To give (something) in exchange for.
  • Will you trade your precious watch for my earring?
  • To do business; offer for sale as for one's livelihood.
  • To have dealings; to be concerned or associated (with).
  • * Shakespeare
  • How did you dare to trade and traffic with Macbeth?

    Derived terms

    * insider trading * trade in * tradable

    Synonyms

    * (engage in the trade of) deal * (be traded at a certain price or under certain conditions) * (give something in exchange for) exchange, swap, switch * (do business) do business, make a deal

    See also

    * buy * sell

    Anagrams

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