What's the difference between mass and mess?

Mass


Definition:

  • (n.) The sacrifice in the sacrament of the Eucharist, or the consecration and oblation of the host.
  • (n.) The portions of the Mass usually set to music, considered as a musical composition; -- namely, the Kyrie, the Gloria, the Credo, the Sanctus, and the Agnus Dei, besides sometimes an Offertory and the Benedictus.
  • (v. i.) To celebrate Mass.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) A medicinal substance made into a cohesive, homogeneous lump, of consistency suitable for making pills; as, blue mass.
  • (n.) A large quantity; a sum.
  • (n.) Bulk; magnitude; body; size.
  • (n.) The principal part; the main body.
  • (n.) The quantity of matter which a body contains, irrespective of its bulk or volume.
  • (v. t.) To form or collect into a mass; to form into a collective body; to bring together into masses; to assemble.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Here we report that sperm from psr males fertilizes eggs, but that the paternal chromosomes are subsequently condensed into a chromatin mass before the first mitotic division of the egg and do not participate in further divisions.
  • (2) Blood samples were analysed by mass spectroscopy and gas chromatography.
  • (3) Bilateral symmetric soft-tissue masses posterior to the glandular tissue with accompanying calcifications should suggest the diagnosis.
  • (4) The extent of the infectious process was limited, however, because the life span of the cultures was not significantly shortened, the yields of infectious virus per immunofluorescent cell were at all times low, and most infected cells contained only a few well-delineated small masses of antigen, suggestive of an abortive infection.
  • (5) The clinically normotensive cases had greater left ventricular mass than the normotensive controls (p less than 0.02).
  • (6) CT scan revealed a small calcified mass in the right maxillary sinus.
  • (7) The article describes an unusual case with development of a right anterior mediastinal mass after bypass surgery with internal mammary artery grafts.
  • (8) The increase in red blood cell mass was associated with an elevation in erythropoietic stimulatory activity in serum, pleural fluid, and tumor-cyst fluid as determined by the exhypoxic polycythemic mouse assay.
  • (9) The groups were matched with regard to sex, age and body mass index.
  • (10) Based on the deduced amino acid sequence, rpL8 has a mass of 28,605 Da, a pI of 11.97, and contains 9.6% Arg and 11.9% Lys.
  • (11) All masses had either histologic confirmation (n = 11) or confirmation with other imaging modalities (n = 4).
  • (12) A neonate without external malformation had undergone removal of a nasopharyngeal mass containing anterior and posterior pituitary tissue.
  • (13) All patients with localized subaortic hypertrophy had left ventricular hypertrophy (left ventricular mass or posterior wall thickness greater than 2 SD from normal) with a normal size cavity due to aortic valve disease (2 patients were also hypertensive).
  • (14) By means of computed tomography (CT) values related to bone density and mass were assessed in the femoral head, neck, trochanter, shaft, and condyles.
  • (15) This can be achieved by sincere, periodic information through the mass media.
  • (16) However, the effects of such large-scale calvarial repositioning on subsequent brain mass growth trajectories and compensatory cranio-facial growth changes is unclear.
  • (17) Ether extracts were analyzed by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) and various chlorinated and non-chlorinated compounds were detected, e.g.
  • (18) The spikes likely correspond to VP3, a hemagglutinin, while the rest of the mass density in the outer shell represents 780 molecules of VP7, a neutralization antigen.
  • (19) Variability (CV = 0.7%) in body volume of a 45-year-old reference man measured by SH method was very similar to variation (CV = 0.6%) in mass volume of the 60-1 prototype.
  • (20) The masses were solitary and located in the retroperitoneum (five cases), mediastinum (one case), and axilla (one case).

Mess


Definition:

  • (n.) Mass; church service.
  • (n.) A quantity of food set on a table at one time; provision of food for a person or party for one meal; as, a mess of pottage; also, the food given to a beast at one time.
  • (n.) A number of persons who eat together, and for whom food is prepared in common; especially, persons in the military or naval service who eat at the same table; as, the wardroom mess.
  • (n.) A set of four; -- from the old practice of dividing companies into sets of four at dinner.
  • (n.) The milk given by a cow at one milking.
  • (n.) A disagreeable mixture or confusion of things; hence, a situation resulting from blundering or from misunderstanding; as, he made a mess of it.
  • (v. i.) To take meals with a mess; to belong to a mess; to eat (with others); as, I mess with the wardroom officers.
  • (v. t.) To supply with a mess.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) They were preceded by the publication of The Success and Failure of Picasso (1965) and Art and Revolution: Ernst Neizvestny and the Role of the Artist in the USSR (1969); in one, he made a hopeless mess of Picasso’s later career, though he was not alone in this; in the other, he elevated a brave dissident artist beyond his talents.
  • (2) And that's why I was the first G20 finance minister to introduce a permanent tax on banks – because it's fair that they help clear up the mess they did so much to create.
  • (3) We need to stop making excuses for them: But it is up to the state to close the loopholes Yes, the state must work continually to tighten and simplify the tax regime, which is a deliberate mess keeping an entire industry of accounting firms and tax lawyers fed.
  • (4) Of course, amid this mess some free schools are doing marvellously.
  • (5) The first UK comedy show I ever performed was a total mess.
  • (6) The local inanimate environment, including mess hut, sleeping huts and sleeping bags used on expeditions, was searched for contamination by S. aureus but none was detected.
  • (7) Some say Film Socialism is an eccentric masterpiece ; others that it's an eccentric mess.
  • (8) They had a good threat up top with the two lads up front, who messed us around all day long to be honest.
  • (9) Clubs got into a mess partly because rich people, who knew nothing about football, put money in - and they got ripped off."
  • (10) "Sorry to leave it in such a mess, old cock", was the parting shot from the Conservative chancellor.
  • (11) My weight went down and my house was a bit of a mess.
  • (12) Friends describe him, kindly, as a mess: invariably tieless, usually unshaven and "sweaty, because he always goes round on his bike".
  • (13) It had promised its national deficit would drop from 9.5% of GDP to 6%, but turned in an 8.5% deficit that made it the laughing stock of austerity Europe – and left Rajoy's new government having to clean up the mess, which also includes 24% unemployment and a recession that will shrink the economy by 1.7%.
  • (14) But it's not OK to mess up a movie, it's not OK to do that just so you can improve as an actor.
  • (15) And to put us in a situation where we are only ‘patriotic’ and only ‘heard’ if we actively take it upon ourselves to fight ‘terrorism’, as if we are responsible for these horrible acts, or by sending us to wars killing other Muslims, is also a problematic discourse.” While on guard near the Iraqi city of Baqubah in 2004, the 27-year-old Humayun Khan ran towards a suicide bomb vehicle that was headed in the direction of a mess hall where hundreds of servicemen were eating.
  • (16) But they just didn’t know how to manage the situation.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Children and adults in the mess at the detention centre Police would book an appointment to interview a child about a serious allegation then fail to show up, Rose said.
  • (17) Their expertise led to this mess, and would be a hindrance, not a help, in cleaning it up.
  • (18) What a complete mess - a miscued shot, scuffed clearance, and uncontrolled toe-punt as he fell - but a decisive mess all the same."
  • (19) But Hancock said: "Their fiscal policy is in a mess.
  • (20) "The only answer to the mess we are in is social uprising and the end of all these barbaric measures."