The difference between Crowd and Mass

When used as nouns, crowd means a group of people congregated or collected into a close body without order, whereas mass means 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.

When used as verbs, crowd means to press forward, whereas mass means to form or collect into a mass.

Mass is also adjective with the meaning: involving a mass of things.

check bellow for the other definitions of Crowd and Mass

  1. Crowd as a verb (intransitive):

    To press forward; to advance by pushing.

    Examples:

    "The man crowded into the packed room."

  2. Crowd as a verb (intransitive):

    To press together or collect in numbers

    Examples:

    "They crowded through the archway and into the park."

    "synonyms: swarm throng crowd in"

  3. Crowd as a verb (transitive):

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

    Examples:

    "He tried to crowd too many cows into the cow-pen."

  4. Crowd as a verb (transitive):

    To fill by pressing or thronging together

  5. Crowd as a verb (transitive, often used with "out of" or "off"):

    To push, to press, to shove.

    Examples:

    "They tried to crowd her off the sidewalk."

  6. Crowd as a verb (nautical):

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

  7. Crowd as a verb (nautical, of a, square-rigged ship, transitive):

    To carry excessive sail in the hope of moving faster.

  8. Crowd as a verb (transitive):

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

  1. Crowd as a noun:

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

    Examples:

    "After the movie let out, a crowd of people pushed through the exit doors."

  2. Crowd as a noun:

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

    Examples:

    "There was a crowd of toys pushed beneath the couch where the children were playing."

  3. Crowd as a noun (with definite article):

    The so-called lower orders of people; the populace, vulgar.

  4. Crowd as a noun:

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

    Examples:

    "That obscure author's fans were a nerdy crowd which hardly ever interacted before the Internet age."

  1. Crowd as a noun (obsolete):

  2. Crowd as a noun:

    A fiddle.

  1. Crowd as a verb (obsolete, intransitive):

    To play on a crowd; to fiddle.

  1. Mass as a noun (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 Precious metal, especially gold or silver. 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. A medicinal substance made into a cohesive, homogeneous lump, of consistency suitable for making pills; as, blue mass. A palpable or visible abnormal globular structure; a tumor. Excess body weight, especially in the form of muscle hypertrophy.

  2. Mass as a noun:

    A large quantity; a sum.

  3. Mass as a noun (quantity):

    Large in number. Bulk; magnitude; body; size. The principal part; the main body. A large body of individuals, especially persons. The lower classes of persons.

    Examples:

    "The mass of spectators didn't see the infraction on the field."

    "A mass of ships converged on the beaches of Dunkirk."

    "The masses are revolting."

  1. Mass as a verb (transitive):

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

  2. Mass as a verb (intransitive):

    To have a certain mass.

    Examples:

    "I mass 70 kilograms"

  1. Mass as an adjective:

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

    Examples:

    "There is evidence of mass extinctions in the distant past."

  2. Mass as an adjective:

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

    Examples:

    "Mass unemployment resulted from the financial collapse."

  1. Mass as a noun (Christianity):

    The Eucharist, now especially in Roman Catholicism.

  2. Mass as a noun (Christianity):

    Celebration of the Eucharist.

  3. Mass as a noun (Christianity, usually as ''the [[Mass]]''):

    The sacrament of the Eucharist.

  4. Mass as a noun:

    A musical setting of parts of the mass.

  1. Mass as a verb (intransitive, obsolete):

    To celebrate mass.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Hooker"

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