What's the difference between mass and throng?

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).

Throng


Definition:

  • (imp.) of Thring
  • (n.) A multitude of persons or of living beings pressing or pressed into a close body or assemblage; a crowd.
  • (n.) A great multitude; as, the heavenly throng.
  • (v. i.) To crowd together; to press together into a close body, as a multitude of persons; to gather or move in multitudes.
  • (v. t.) To crowd, or press, as persons; to oppress or annoy with a crowd of living beings.
  • (v. t.) To crowd into; to fill closely by crowding or pressing into, as a hall or a street.
  • (a.) Thronged; crowded; also, much occupied; busy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A throng gathered before it and sang the civil rights "Freedom Song."
  • (2) According to some members of Aberdeen ’s energy sector, a group with a code of silence that would trump any Trappist throng, the North Sea is a busted flush, a dead zone of drilled-out fields with a long-term future to match.
  • (3) The Normandie Design is plum in the middle of the amiable chaos of South American city life, in Santa Efigênia, where the streets are thronged with tiny electronics stores – great if you fancy a fake Chinese iPhone.
  • (4) Later, Dizzee Rascal drew big crowds in Tower Hamlets as he ran through the streets where he grew up, throwing his trainers into the throng and running in his socks.
  • (5) In any village in South Kivu, his arrival is much like the arrival of the pope – throngs of people greet him, thousands of women whose lives he has saved or healed or touched celebrate him.
  • (6) The gates may be open but the road to the church that calls itself a friendship and reconciliation centre is not paved with sleek cars or thronged with believers.
  • (7) Spring is in the air here too: in the nearby churchyard at West Huntspill, the rookery is thronged with nesting birds.
  • (8) Led by the redoubtable Frances O'Grady, the TUC's stentorian No 2, a succession of union leaders and VIPs addressed the throng in time-honoured fashion.
  • (9) His players paraded the Europa League trophy on the pitch after securing third place here, both achievements that would normally merit acclaim, but the interim manager remained inside while his coaching staff joined the joyous throng out on the turf.
  • (10) As Feygin, Polozov and Volkova left court, Samutsevich's father, Stanislav, pushed through the throng to say he hoped they understood her decision to push for her own freedom.
  • (11) Throngs lined up from before dawn on Wednesday to be among the first to buy legal recreational marijuana at about three-dozen licensed stores , with cheers erupting when doors opened at 8am local time.
  • (12) In the swimming pool below us, a throng of bikini-clad women and lads in Quiksilver board shorts are drinking gaudy cocktails and splashing about, having piggy-back pool fights.
  • (13) At one depot, run by the UN relief and works agency, Dina Aldan, 22, is queueing amid a throng of women in black jilbab clutching her ration card along with her five-month old baby, Najwan.
  • (14) Still, a hero's open-top bus ride around the thronging streets of Pyongyang must surely await him.
  • (15) But for the moment all eyes are on New Hampshire where Santorum criss-crossed the centre of the state carrying out numerous campaign stops attended by a throng of camera crews and reporters.
  • (16) Powell's world is well supplied with pubs without being beery, and there are times when the streets are thronged with well-born paupers conscientiously dodging their creditors.
  • (17) Organizers say as many as 200,000 people thronged the streets for peaceful sit-ins after police used tear gas on 28 September to disperse unarmed protesters.
  • (18) Recently, another group, Bright Blue, added its voice to the throng.
  • (19) So there are a throng of issues around identity, moderation, ranking, recommendation and aggregation which we – along with everyone else – are grappling with.
  • (20) From the early hours of Saturday after provisional results emerged, Kenyatta's joyous supporters thronged the streets of Nairobi and his tribal strongholds, lighting fluorescent flares and waving tree branches and chanting: "Uhuru, Uhuru".