Lump vs. Mass — What's the Difference?

A compact mass of a substance, especially one without a definite or regular shape

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.

The state of being self-employed and paid without deduction of tax, especially in the building industry

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

Put in an indiscriminate mass or group; treat as alike without regard for particulars

Involving or affecting large numbers of people or things

Carry (a heavy load) somewhere with difficulty

Assemble or cause to assemble into a single body or mass

Accept or tolerate a disagreeable situation whether one likes it or not

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

An irregularly shaped mass or piece.

The sacrament of the Eucharist.

A small cube of sugar.

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

(Medicine) A swelling or small palpable mass.

A unified body of matter with no specific shape

A collection or totality; an aggregate.

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

A person regarded as ungainly or dull-witted.

A large but nonspecific amount or number

Severe punishment or treatment, as a beating or an unsparing criticism

A lump or aggregate of coherent material

One's just deserts; comeuppance

The principal part; the majority

Formed into lumps

The physical volume or bulk of a solid body.

Not broken or divided into parts

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.

To put together in a single group without discrimination.

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

To move with heavy clumsiness.

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

To make into lumps.

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

To become lumpy.

To gather or be gathered into a mass.

To move heavily.

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

To tolerate (what must be endured)

Done or carried out on a large scale

Something that protrudes, sticks out, or sticks together; a cluster or blob; a mound or mass of no particular shape.

Total; complete

A swelling or nodule of tissue under the skin or in an internal part of the body.

(physical) Matter, material.

A group, set, or unit.

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.

A small, shaped mass of sugar, typically about a teaspoonful.

(obsolete) Precious metal, especially gold or silver.

A dull or lazy person.

(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.

A beating or verbal abuse.

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

A projection beneath the breech end of a gun barrel.

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

A kind of fish, the lumpsucker.

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

Food given to a tramp to be eaten on the road.

(proscribed) weight

(transitive) To treat as a single unit; to group together in a casual or chaotic manner (as if forming an ill-defined lump of the items).

A large quantity; a sum.

(transitive) To bear (a heavy or awkward burden); to carry (something unwieldy) from one place to another.

Bulk; magnitude; body; size.

(transitive) To burden (someone) with an undesired task or responsibility.

The principal part; the main body.

To hit or strike (a person).

A large body of individuals, especially persons.

(intransitive) To form a lump or lumps.

(in the plural) The lower classes of persons.

A small mass of matter of irregular shape; an irregular or shapeless mass; as, a lump of coal; a lump of iron ore.

(Christianity) The Eucharist, now especially in Roman Catholicism.

A mass or aggregation of things.

(Christianity) Celebration of the Eucharist.

A projection beneath the breech end of a gun barrel.

The sacrament of the Eucharist.

To throw into a mass; to unite in a body or sum without distinction of particulars.

A musical setting of parts of the mass.

To take in the gross; to speak of collectively.

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

To get along with as one can, although displeased; as, if he doesn't like it, he can lump it.

(intransitive) To assemble in a mass

A large piece of something without definite shape;

To celebrate mass.

A compact mass;

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

Abnormal protuberance or localized enlargement

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

An awkward stupid person

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

Put together indiscriminately;

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.

Group or chunk together in a certain order or place side by side

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;