Measure vs Mass - What's the difference?
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The quantity, size, weight, distance or capacity of a substance compared to a designated standard.
An (unspecified) quantity or capacity.
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The precise designated distance between two objects or points.
The dimensions or capacity of anything, reckoned according to some standard; size or extent, determined and stated.
* Bible, Job xi. 9
The act of measuring.
A musical designation consisting of all notes and or rests delineated by two vertical bars; an equal and regular division of the whole of a composition.
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(music) The group or grouping of beats, caused by the regular recurrence of accented beats.
(dancing) A regulated movement, especially in a slow and stately dance, corresponding to the time in which the accompanying music is performed.
(poetry) The manner of ordering and combining the quantities, or long and short syllables; meter; rhythm; hence, a metrical foot.
A rule, ruler or measuring stick.
A tactic, strategy or piece of legislation.
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, title= (mathematics) A function that assigns a non-negative number to a given set following the mathematical nature that is common among length, volume, probability and the like.
(arithmetic, dated) A number which is contained in a given number a number of times without a remainder; a divisor.
(geology) A bed or stratum.
An indicator; something used to assess some property.
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, title= To ascertain the quantity of a unit of material via calculated comparison with respect to a standard.
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, title= To estimate the unit size of something.
To judge, value, or appraise.
* (John Milton)
To obtain or set apart; to mark in even increments.
(rare) To traverse, cross, pass along; to travel over.
* (William Shakespeare)
To adjust by a rule or standard.
* Jeremy Taylor
To allot or distribute by measure; to set off or apart by measure; often with out'' or ''off .
* Bible, Matthew vii. 2
* Addison
(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.
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#* 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.
Measure is a related term of mass.
As nouns the difference between measure and mass
is that measure is the quantity, size, weight, distance or capacity of a substance compared to a designated standard while mass is march.As a verb measure
is to ascertain the quantity of a unit of material via calculated comparison with respect to a standard.measure
English
(wikipedia measure)Noun
(en noun)- It ended up being a bittersweet night for England, full of goals to send the crowd home happy, buoyed by the news that Montenegro and Poland had drawn elsewhere in Group H but also with a measure of regret about what happened to Danny Welbeck and what it means for Roy Hodgson's team going into a much more difficult assignment against Ukraine.
- The tailor took my measure for a coat.
- The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.
- (Shakespeare)
- a poem in iambic measure
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- the greatest common measure of two or more numbers
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Synonyms
* (musical designation) bar * (precise designated distance) metricHyponyms
* (mathematics) positive measure, signed measure, complex measure, Borel measure, , complete measure, Lebesgue measureVerb
(measur)Towards the end of poverty, passage=But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 (the average of the 15 poorest countries’ own poverty lines, measured in 2005 dollars and adjusted for differences in purchasing power): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.}}
- Great are thy works, Jehovah, infinite / Thy power! what thought can measure thee?
- A true devoted pilgrim is not weary / To measure kingdoms with his feeble steps.
- To secure a contented spirit, measure your desires by your fortunes, not your fortunes by your desires.
- With what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.
- That portion of eternity which is called time, measured out by the sun.
Derived terms
* measurement * measure stick * measure theoryExternal links
* * * 1000 English basic wordsmass
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)