Mass vs. Crowd — What's the Difference?

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.

Generally speaking, a crowd is defined as a group of people that have gathered for a common purpose or intent such as at a demonstration, a sports event, or during looting (this is known as an acting crowd), or may simply be made up of many people going about their business in a busy area. The term "the crowd" may sometimes refer to the lower orders of people in general.

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

A large number of persons gathered together; a throng.

Involving or affecting large numbers of people or things

The common people; the populace.

Assemble or cause to assemble into a single body or mass

A group of people united by a common characteristic, as age, interest, or vocation

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

A group of people attending a public function; an audience

The sacrament of the Eucharist.

A large number of things positioned or considered together.

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

An ancient Celtic stringed instrument that was bowed or plucked. Also called crwth.

A unified body of matter with no specific shape

Chiefly British A fiddle.

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

To gather together in a limited space

A large but nonspecific amount or number

To move forward by pressing or shoving

A lump or aggregate of coherent material

To force by pressing or shoving

The principal part; the majority

To force away by taking up space; displace

The physical volume or bulk of a solid body.

To draw or stand very near or too near to

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 press, cram, or force tightly together

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

To fill or occupy to overflowing

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

(Informal) To put pressure on; assail

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

(intransitive) To press forward; to advance by pushing.

To gather or be gathered into a mass.

(intransitive) To press together or collect in numbers

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

(transitive) To press or drive together, especially into a small space; to cram.

Done or carried out on a large scale

(transitive) To fill by pressing or thronging together

Total; complete

To push, to press, to shove.

(physical) Matter, material.

(nautical) To approach another ship too closely when it has right of way.

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.

To carry excessive sail in the hope of moving faster.

(obsolete) Precious metal, especially gold or silver.

(transitive) To press by solicitation; to urge; to dun; hence, to treat discourteously or unreasonably.

(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.

To play on a crowd; to fiddle.

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

A group of people congregated or collected into a close body without order.

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

Several things collected or closely pressed together; also, some things adjacent to each other.

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

(with definite article) The so-called lower orders of people; the populace, vulgar.

(proscribed) weight

A group of people united or at least characterised by a common interest.

A large quantity; a sum.

(obsolete) crwth

Bulk; magnitude; body; size.

A fiddle.

The principal part; the main body.

To push, to press, to shove.

A large body of individuals, especially persons.

To press or drive together; to mass together.

(in the plural) The lower classes of persons.

To fill by pressing or thronging together; hence, to encumber by excess of numbers or quantity.

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

To press by solicitation; to urge; to dun; hence, to treat discourteously or unreasonably.

(Christianity) Celebration of the Eucharist.

To press together or collect in numbers; to swarm; to throng.

The sacrament of the Eucharist.

To urge or press forward; to force one's self; as, a man crowds into a room.

A musical setting of parts of the mass.

To play on a crowd; to fiddle.

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

A number of things collected or closely pressed together; also, a number of things adjacent to each other.

(intransitive) To assemble in a mass

A number of persons congregated or collected into a close body without order; a throng.

To celebrate mass.

The lower orders of people; the populace; the vulgar; the rabble; the mob.

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

An ancient instrument of music with six strings; a kind of violin, being the oldest known stringed instrument played with a bow.

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

A large number of things or people considered together;

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

An informal body of friends;

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.

Cause to herd, drive, or crowd together;

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.

Fill or occupy to the point of overflowing;

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

To gather together in large numbers;

A large quantity; a sum.

Approach a certain age or speed;

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;