Mass vs World - What's the difference?
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(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:
#* 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,
# (label) Precious metal, especially gold or silver.
#* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , IV.10:
# (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.
A large quantity; a sum.
* 1829 , Sir (Walter Raleigh), The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, Kt , Volume VIII,
* 1869 , Alexander George Richey, Lectures on the History of Ireland: Down to A. D. 1534 , page 204,
(label) Large in number.
# Bulk; magnitude; body; size.
#* c.1599-1601 , (William Shakespeare), , Act 4, Scene 4,
# The principal part; the main body.
#* 1881 , (Thucydides), (Benjamin Jowett) Thucydides translated into English , Volume 1, page 310,
# A large body of individuals, especially persons.
# (label) The lower classes of persons.
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 ,
* 1857 , Edward Henry Nolan, The Illustrated History of the War against Russia , Parts 93-111, page 432,
* 1869 , H. P. Robinson, Pictorial Effect in Photography: Being Hints on Composition and Chiariscuro for Photographers ,
To have a certain mass.
Involving a mass of things; concerning a large quantity or number.
* 1988 , V. V. Zagladin, Vitaly Baskakov, International Working Class and Communist Movement: Historical Record, 1830s to Mid-1940s ,
* 1989 , Creighton Peden, Larry E. Axel (editors), God, Values, and Empiricism: Issues in Philosophical Theology ,
* 2010 , John Horne, A Companion to World War I ,
Involving a mass of people; of, for, or by the masses.
* 1958 , Child Welfare, volume 37, page 2:
* 1970 , James Wilson White, The S?kagakkai and Mass Society ,
* 1974 , Edward Abraham Cohn, The Political Economy of Environmental Enhancement , page 91:
* 1999 December, Sara Miles, Rebel with a Cause'', in '' ,
* 2000 , Howie Klein, Queer as role models'', in ''The Advocate , number 825, 21 November 2000, page 9:
* 2001 , Brian Moeran. Asian Media Productions , page 13:
* 2004 , John R. Hall, Gone from the Promised Land: Jonestown in American Cultural History ,
* 2007 , Thomas Peele, Queer popular culture: literature, media, film, and television , page 11:
(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.
(obsolete) To celebrate mass.
Human collective existence; existence in general.
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, title= The Universe.
The Earth.
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, title= (lb) A planet, especially one which is inhabited or inhabitable.
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An individual or group perspective or social setting.
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, title= (lb) A great amount.
To consider or cause to be considered from a global perspective; to consider as a global whole, rather than making or focussing on national or other distinctions; compare globalise.
* 1996 , Jan Jindy Pettman, Worlding Women: A feminist international politics , pages ix-x:
* 2005 , James Phillips, Heidegger's Volk: Between National Socialism and Poetry , published by Stanford University Press, ISBN-13 978-0804750714:
To make real; to make worldly.
In obsolete terms the difference between mass and world
is that mass is precious metal, especially gold or silver while world is to introduce into the world; to bear (eg a child) --.As nouns the difference between mass and world
is that mass is matter, material while world is human collective existence; existence in general.As verbs the difference between mass and world
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 world is to consider or cause to be considered from a global perspective; to consider as a global whole, rather than making or focussing on national or other distinctions; compare globalise.As an adjective mass
is involving a mass of things; concerning a large quantity or number.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
- 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 ; .
- and because a deep mass of continual sea is slower stirred to rage.
- Right in the midst the Goddesse selfe did stand / Upon an altar of some costly masse […].
- After all, muscle maniacs go "ga ga" over mass no matter how it's presented.
- 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.
- For though he had spent a huge mass of treasure in transporting his army, .
- Witness this army of such mass and charge / Led by a delicate and tender prince,
- Night closed upon the pursuit, and aided the mass of the fugitives in their escape.
See also
* Customary units: slug, pound, ounce, long ton (1.12 short tons), short ton (commonly used) * Metric units: gram (g), kilogram (kg), metric tonDerived 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 massesVerb
(es)- 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.
- Every bend on the hill had acted like a funnel to mass them together in this peculiar way.
- Where there is too great a repetition of forms, light and shade will break them up or mass them together.
- I mass 70 kilograms
Adjective
(-)- There is evidence of mass extinctions in the distant past.
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- The national liberation movement had not yet developed to a sufficiently mass scale.
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- 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; .
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- 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.
- Mass unemployment resulted from the financial collapse.
- Every agency is sold on use of mass' media today — or at least, it thinks it is — and what can be "' masser " than television?
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- 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."
- Undoubtedly this is the case; at least it is "masser " than in Pinchot's time.
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- 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.
- 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 [...]
- [...] if only because it promises the ‘massest'’ of ' mass markets.
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- Finally, in the past century, secular culture itself has undergone a transition from predominantly folk styles to an overwhelmingly mass culture, .
- 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 extinctionEtymology 2
From (etyl) masse, from (etyl) . More at (l).Noun
(es)Verb
(es)- (Hooker)
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Noun
(wikipedia world)“Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days, chapter=Ep./4/2
citation, passage=Eustace gaped at him in amazement. When his urbanity dropped away from him, as now, he had an innocence of expression which was almost infantile. It was as if the world had never touched him at all.}}
Towards the end of poverty, passage=America’s poverty line is $63 a day for a family of four. In the richer parts of the emerging world $4 a day is the poverty barrier. But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 ([…]): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.}}
- Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes.She put back a truant curl from her forehead where it had sought egress to the world , and looked him full in the face now, drawing a deep breath which caused the round of her bosom to lift the lace at her throat.
William E. Conner
An Acoustic Arms Race, volume=101, issue=3, page=206-7, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close
NASA's Ion-Drive Asteroid Hunter Lifts Off”, National Public Radio :
- I think many people think of asteroids as kind of little chips of rock. But the places that Dawn is going to really are more like worlds .
Obama goes troll-hunting, passage=According to this saga of intellectual-property misanthropy, these creatures [patent trolls] roam the business world , buying up patents and then using them to demand extravagant payouts from companies they accuse of infringing them. Often, their victims pay up rather than face the costs of a legal battle.}}
Synonyms
* (the earth) Earth, the earth, the globe, Sol III * (a planet) * (individual or group perspective or social setting) circleDerived terms
* dead to the world * end of the world * fast-paced world * First World * Fourth World * free world * have the world by the tail * Light of the World * not the end of the world * mean the world to * New World * Old World * out of this world * phenomenal world * real-world * Second World * think the world of * the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world * the world is one's oyster * Third World * umbworld * underworld * way of the world / ways of the world * weight of the world * world-class * worldly * world peace * world power * World Series * world soul * world war * World War I * World War II * world-weary * worldwide * World Wide WebVerb
(en verb)- There are by now many feminisms (Tong, 1989; Humm, 1992). [...] They are in shifting alliance or contest with postmodern critiques, which at times seem to threaten the very category 'women' and its possibilities for a feminist politics. These debates inform this attempt at worlding women—moving beyond white western power centres and their dominant knowledges (compare Spivak, 1985), while recognising that I, as a white settler-state woman, need to attend to differences between women, too.
- In a sense, the dictatorship was a failure of failure and, on that account, it was perhaps the exemplary system of control. Having in 1933 wagered on the worlding of the world in the regime's failure, Heidegger after the war can only rue his opportunistic hopes for an exposure of the ontological foundations of control.