Accumulate vs. Mass — What's the Difference?

To gather or cause to increase; amass

Mass is both a property of a physical body and a measure of its resistance to acceleration (rate of change of velocity with respect to time) when a net force is applied. An object's mass also determines the strength of its gravitational attraction to other bodies.

To be the site for (a gradually increasing mass), especially as a result of disuse or neglect

The celebration of the Christian Eucharist, especially in the Roman Catholic Church

To mount or pile up; increase

Involving or affecting large numbers of people or things

(transitive) To heap up in a mass; to pile up; to collect or bring together (either literally or figuratively)

Assemble or cause to assemble into a single body or mass

(intransitive) To gradually grow or increase in quantity or number.

Public celebration of the Eucharist in the Roman Catholic Church and some Protestant churches.

To take a higher degree at the same time with a lower degree, or at a shorter interval than usual.

The sacrament of the Eucharist.

Collected; accumulated.

A musical setting of certain parts of the Mass, especially the Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, and Agnus Dei.

To heap up in a mass; to pile up; to collect or bring together; to amass; as, to accumulate a sum of money.

A unified body of matter with no specific shape

To grow or increase in quantity or number; to increase greatly.

A grouping of individual parts or elements that compose a unified body of unspecified size or quantity

Collected; accumulated.

A large but nonspecific amount or number

Get or gather together;

A lump or aggregate of coherent material

Collect or gather;

The principal part; the majority

The physical volume or bulk of a solid body.

Abbr. m(Physics) A property of matter equal to the measure of the amount of matter contained in or constituting a physical body that partly determines the body's resistance to changes in the speed or direction of its motion. The mass of an object is not dependent on gravity and therefore is different from but proportional to its weight.

An area of unified light, shade, or color in a painting.

(Pharmacology) A thick, pasty mixture containing drugs from which pills are formed.

Masses The body of common people or people of low socioeconomic status

To gather or be gathered into a mass.

Of, relating to, characteristic of, directed at, or attended by a large number of people

Done or carried out on a large scale

Total; complete

(physical) 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.

(obsolete) Precious metal, especially gold or silver.

(physics) The quantity of matter which a body contains, irrespective of its bulk or volume. It is one of four fundamental properties of matter. SI unit of mass: kilogram.

(pharmaceutical drug) A medicinal substance made into a cohesive, homogeneous lump, of consistency suitable for making pills; as, blue mass.

(medicine) A palpable or visible abnormal globular structure; a tumor.

(bodybuilding) Excess body weight, especially in the form of muscle hypertrophy.

(proscribed) weight

A large quantity; a sum.

Bulk; magnitude; body; size.

The principal part; the main body.

A large body of individuals, especially persons.

(in the plural) The lower classes of persons.

(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.

(transitive) To form or collect into a mass; to form into a collective body; to bring together into masses; to assemble.

(intransitive) To assemble in a mass

To celebrate mass.

Involving a mass of things; concerning a large quantity or number.

Involving a mass of people; of, for, or by the masses.

The sacrifice in the sacrament of the Eucharist, or the consecration and oblation of the host.

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.

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.

A medicinal substance made into a cohesive, homogeneous lump, of consistency suitable for making pills; as, blue mass.

A large quantity; a sum.

Bulk; magnitude; body; size.

The principal part; the main body.

The quantity of matter which a body contains, irrespective of its bulk or volume.

To celebrate Mass.

To form or collect into a mass; to form into a collective body; to bring together into masses; to assemble.

The property of a body that causes it to have weight in a gravitational field

(often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent;

An ill-structured collection of similar things (objects or people)

(Roman Catholic Church and Protestant Churches) the celebration of the Eucharist

A body of matter without definite shape;

The common people generally;

The property of something that is great in magnitude;

A musical setting for a Mass;

A sequence of prayers constituting the Christian eucharistic rite;

Join together into a mass or collect or form a mass;

Occurring widely (as to many people);

Gathered or tending to gather into a mass or whole;