(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).
Setting
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Set
(n.) The act of one who, or that which, sets; as, the setting of type, or of gems; the setting of the sun; the setting (hardening) of moist plaster of Paris; the setting (set) of a current.
(n.) The act of marking the position of game, as a setter does; also, hunting with a setter.
(n.) Something set in, or inserted.
(n.) That in which something, as a gem, is set; as, the gold setting of a jeweled pin.
Example Sentences:
(1) The various evocational changes appear to form sets of interconnected systems and this complex network seems to embody some plasticity since it has been possible to suppress experimentally some of the most universal evocational events or alter their temporal order without impairing evocation itself.
(2) Serum samples from 23 families, including a total of 48 affected children, were tested for a set of "classical markers."
(3) The Cole-Moore effect, which was found here only under a specific set of conditions, thus may be a special case rather than the general property of the membrane.
(4) It involves creativity, understanding of art form and the ability to improvise in the highly complex environment of a care setting.” David Cameron has boosted dementia awareness but more needs to be done Read more She warns: “To effect a cultural change in dementia care requires a change of thinking … this approach is complex and intricate, and can change cultural attitudes by regarding the arts as central to everyday life of the care home.” Another participant, Mary*, a former teacher who had been bedridden for a year, read plays with the reminiscence arts practitioner.
(5) All former US presidents set up a library in their name to house their papers and honour their legacy.
(6) Why bother to put the investigators, prosecutors, judge, jury and me through this if one person can set justice aside, with the swipe of a pen.
(7) There was virtually no difference in a set of subtypic determinants between the serum and liver.
(8) It is entirely proper for serving judges to set out the arguments in high-profile cases to help public understanding of the legal issues, as long as it is done in an even-handed way.
(9) Second, the unknown is searched against the database to find all materials with the same or similar element types; the results are kept in set 2.
(10) The stepped approach is cost-effective and provides an objective basis for decisions and priority setting.
(11) The scleral arc length is slightly longer than the chord length (caliper setting).
(12) Dominic Fifield Facebook Twitter Pinterest Ravel Morrison, who has been on loan at QPR, may be set for a return to Loftus Road.
(13) When reformist industrialist Robert Owen set about creating a new community among the workers in his New Lanark cotton-spinning mills at the turn of the nineteenth century, it was called socialism, not corporate social responsibility.
(14) The denial of justice to victims of British torture, some of which Britain admits, is set to continue.
(15) In the genitourinary clinic setting, clinical diagnosis prior to biopsy was found frequently to be inaccurate.
(16) We set a new basic plane on an orthopantomogram in order to measure the gonial angle and obtained the following: 1) Usable error difference in ordinary clinical setting ranged from 0.5 degrees-1.0 degree.
(17) It is intended to aid in finding the appropriate PI (proportional-integral) controller settings by means of computer simulation instead of real experiments with the system.
(18) This alloimmune memory was shown to survive for up to 50 days after first-set rejection.
(19) Short-forms of Wechsler intelligence tests have abounded in the literature and have been recommended for use as screening instruments in clinical and research settings.
(20) Unstable subcapital fractures and dislocation fractures of the humerus can usually be set by closed reduction.