(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).
Ruck
Definition:
(n.) A roc.
(v. t. & i.) To draw into wrinkles or unsightly folds; to crease; as, to ruck up a carpet.
(v. t.) A wrinkle or crease in a piece of cloth, or in needlework.
(v. i.) To cower; to huddle together; to squat; to sit, as a hen on eggs.
(n.) A heap; a rick.
(n.) The common sort, whether persons or things; as, the ruck in a horse race.
Example Sentences:
(1) The only fact the Guardian can report is that the case involves the London solicitors Carter-Ruck, who specialise in suing the media for clients, who include individuals or global corporations.
(2) Does he really think, like those daft gender essentialists, that women are innately gentle and men are big brutes out for a ruck?
(3) Regardless of fringe rucks, these protests are more likely to lay the ground for wider public and industrial campaigns than frighten them off.
(4) You see, I have a lot of truck with the sack of ruck.
(5) Farrelly's question had concerned the effectiveness of legislation to protect the freedom of the press in the wake of Trafigura and Carter-Ruck obtaining the original injunction, which banned any references to the Minton report on the alleged dumping in Ivory Coast, commissioned by Trafigura.
(6) Increased risk of injury was related to the following factors: 98% of injuries occurred in matches and 81% were incurred by adults; 69% of injuries occurred in age-group A team or senior first team players; and 57% of injuries occurred in the tackle situation and 39% in scrums, rucks and mauls.
(7) It was on 11 September that Carter-Ruck, the libel specialists employed by the London-based trading company, first went to court to get an emergency super-injunction preventing the Guardian from publishing the Minton report.
(8) Proposals being circulated online included plans for a protest outside the offices of Carter-Ruck.
(9) The Guardian had been prevented from publishing a parliamentary question from MP Paul Farrelly about the effectiveness of legislation to protect the freedom of the press in the wake of a high court injunction obtained by Trafigura and Carter-Ruck "on the publication of the Minton report".
(10) It asked about the injunction obtained by "Trafigura and Carter-Ruck solicitors on 11 September 2009 on the publication of the Minton Report on the alleged dumping of toxic waste in the Ivory Coast , commissioned by Trafigura".
(11) In view of the seriousness of this, will you accept representations from me over this matter and consider whether Carter-Ruck's behaviour constitutes a potential contempt of parliament?"
(12) Peter Bottomley, Tory MP for Worthing West, threatened to report Carter-Ruck to the Law Society.
(13) And even if they try, Carter-Ruck can probably issue a gagging order that follows them into the afterlife and kicks their larynx off its hinges.
(14) MPs debated how Carter-Ruck had been able to stop the Guardian reporting a parliamentary question tabled by the Labour MP Paul Farrelly relating to an injunction awarded by Trafigura.
(15) Tommy Bowe scored their first try, linking brilliantly with Jared Payne down the right, before Francois van der Merwe leapt over a ruck for the second after brilliant breaks by Payne and Gilroy.
(16) This PDF document is the 'super-injunction' which Trafigura and Carter-Ruck used to gag the Guardian (and "persons unknown") on September 11.
(17) Cameron Doley, managing partner with Carter-Ruck, denied that his firm had any involvement with Mosley, who he said was not a client.
(18) Brown spoke after Conservative Peter Bottomley told MPs he was reporting Carter-Ruck , the law firm that acted on behalf of Trafigura, to the Law Society, saying that no lawyers should be able to inhibit the reporting of parliament.
(19) Carter-Ruck agreed to release the Guardian from the injunction on Friday night after the existence of the Minton report into the disaster, commissioned by Trafigura, was revealed in parliament.
(20) Privilege was never better used than in the case of the oil-trading firm Trafigura , which hired British lawyers Carter-Ruck to gain a superinjunction against journalists who sought to investigate the firm's behaviour in attempting to cover up a massive dumping of toxic waste off Ivory Coast.