Mass vs. Weight

Massnoun

(physical) Matter, material.

Massnoun

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

Massnoun

(obsolete) Precious metal, especially gold or silver.

Massnoun

(physics) The quantity of matter which a body contains, irrespective of its bulk or volume. It is one of four fundamental properties of matter. It is measured in kilograms in the SI system of measurement.

Massnoun

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

Massnoun

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

Massnoun

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

Massnoun

(proscribed) weight

Massnoun

A large quantity; a sum.

Massnoun

(quantity) Large in number.

Massnoun

Bulk; magnitude; body; size.

Massnoun

The principal part; the main body.

Massnoun

A large body of individuals, especially persons.

Massnoun

(in the plural) The lower classes of persons.

Massnoun

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

Massnoun

(Christianity) Celebration of the Eucharist.

Massnoun

The sacrament of the Eucharist.

Massnoun

A musical setting of parts of the mass.

Massverb

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

Massverb

(intransitive) To have a certain mass.

Massverb

To celebrate mass.

Massadjective

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

Massadjective

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

Massnoun

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

Massnoun

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.

Massnoun

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.

Massnoun

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

Massnoun

A large quantity; a sum.

Massnoun

Bulk; magnitude; body; size.

Massnoun

The principal part; the main body.

Massnoun

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

Massverb

To celebrate Mass.

Massverb

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

Massnoun

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

Massnoun

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

Massnoun

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

Massnoun

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

Massnoun

a body of matter without definite shape;

Massnoun

the common people generally;

Massnoun

the property of something that is great in magnitude;

Massnoun

a musical setting for a Mass;

Massnoun

a sequence of prayers constituting the Christian eucharistic rite;

Massverb

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

Massadjective

occurring widely (as to many people);

Massadjective

gathered or tending to gather into a mass or whole;

Massnoun

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

Massnoun

a particular celebration of the Eucharist

Massnoun

a musical setting of parts of the liturgy used in the Mass

Massadjective

involving or affecting large numbers of people or things

Massverb

assemble or cause to assemble into a single body or mass

Mass

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.

Weightnoun

The force on an object due to the gravitational attraction between it and the Earth (or whatever astronomical object it is primarily influenced by).

Weightnoun

An object used to make something heavier.

Weightnoun

A standardized block of metal used in a balance to measure the mass of another object.

Weightnoun

Importance or influence.

Weightnoun

(weightlifting) A disc of iron, dumbbell, or barbell used for training the muscles.

Weightnoun

(physics) Mass (net weight, atomic weight, molecular weight, troy weight, carat weight, etc.).

Weightnoun

(statistics) A variable which multiplies a value for ease of statistical manipulation.

Weightnoun

(topology) The smallest cardinality of a base.

Weightnoun

(typography) The boldness of a font; the relative thickness of its strokes.

Weightnoun

(visual art) The relative thickness of a drawn rule or painted brushstroke, line weight.

Weightnoun

(visual art) The illusion of mass.

Weightnoun

(visual art) The thickness and opacity of paint.

Weightnoun

Pressure; burden.

Weightnoun

The resistance against which a machine acts, as opposed to the power which moves it.

Weightnoun

Shipments of (often illegal) drugs.

Weightverb

(transitive) To add weight to something; to make something heavier.

Weightverb

To load (fabrics) with barite, etc. to increase the weight.

Weightverb

(transitive) To load, burden or oppress someone.

Weightverb

To assign weights to individual statistics.

Weightverb

(transitive) To bias something; to slant.

Weightverb

To handicap a horse with a specified weight.

Weightverb

To give a certain amount of force to a throw, kick, hit, etc.

Weightnoun

The quality of being heavy; that property of bodies by which they tend toward the center of the earth; the effect of gravitative force, especially when expressed in certain units or standards, as pounds, grams, etc.

Weightnoun

The quantity of heaviness; comparative tendency to the center of the earth; the quantity of matter as estimated by the balance, or expressed numerically with reference to some standard unit; as, a mass of stone having the weight of five hundred pounds.

Weightnoun

Hence, pressure; burden; as, the weight of care or business.

Weightnoun

Importance; power; influence; efficacy; consequence; moment; impressiveness; as, a consideration of vast weight.

Weightnoun

A scale, or graduated standard, of heaviness; a mode of estimating weight; as, avoirdupois weight; troy weight; apothecaries' weight.

Weightnoun

A ponderous mass; something heavy; as, a clock weight; a paper weight.

Weightnoun

A definite mass of iron, lead, brass, or other metal, to be used for ascertaining the weight of other bodies; as, an ounce weight.

Weightnoun

The resistance against which a machine acts, as opposed to the power which moves it.

Weightverb

To load with a weight or weights; to load down; to make heavy; to attach weights to; as, to weight a horse or a jockey at a race; to weight a whip handle.

Weightverb

To assign a weight to; to express by a number the probable accuracy of, as an observation. See Weight of observations, under Weight.

Weightverb

To load (fabrics) as with barite, to increase the weight, etc.

Weightverb

to assign a numerical value expressing relative importance to (a measurement), to be multiplied by the value of the measurement in determining averages or other aggregate quantities; as, they weighted part one of the test twice as heavily as part 2.

Weightnoun

the vertical force exerted by a mass as a result of gravity

Weightnoun

sports equipment used in calisthenic exercises and weightlifting; a weight that is not attached to anything and is raised and lowered by use of the hands and arms

Weightnoun

the relative importance granted to something;

Weightnoun

an artifact that is heavy

Weightnoun

an oppressive feeling of heavy force;

Weightnoun

a system of units used to express the weight of something

Weightnoun

a unit used to measure weight;

Weightnoun

(statistics) a coefficient assigned to elements of a frequency distribution in order to represent their relative importance

Weightverb

weight down with a load

Weightverb

present with a bias;

Weight

In science and engineering, the weight of an object is the force acting on the object due to gravity.Some standard textbooks define weight as a vector quantity, the gravitational force acting on the object. Others define weight as a scalar quantity, the magnitude of the gravitational force.