Masse

Definition: Masse

Masse

Noun

1. A shot in billiards made by hitting the cue ball with the cue held nearly vertically; the cue ball spins around another ball before hitting the object ball.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "masse" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonym: Masse

Party

Adverb: hand in hand, side by side, shoulder to shoulder, en masse,in the same boat.

Resistance

Insurrection; (disobedience); strike; turn out, lock out, barring out; levee en masse, Jacquerie; riot; (disorder).

Whole

Adverb: wholly, altogether; totally; (completely); entirely, all, all in all, as a whole, wholesale, in a body, collectively, all put together; in the aggregate, in the lump, in the mass, in the gross, in the main, in the long run; en masse, as a body, on the whole, bodily, en bloc, in extenso, throughout, every inch; substantially.

Crosswords: Masse

Danish (lump, mass), French (accumulation, body, bulk, crowd, crush, earth, heap, host, lump, Mace, mass, mob, multitude, pile, populace, rank and file), German (assets, bulk, crowd, dimensions, dollop, estate, heaps, horde, host, lump, mass, mixture, mob, pile, stacks), Italian (crowd, masses).

I had no idea that children en masse could be gracious. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Compilation of mass spectral data = Index de spectres de masse (reference)

• Inversion of Revolutionary Ideals: A Study of the Tragic Essence of Georg Buchner's Dantons Tod, Ernst Toller's Masse Mensch, and Bertolt Brecht's di (reference)

• LA Presse Quebecoise De 1884 a 1914: Genese D'UN Media De Masse (reference)

• Mil Novecientos Cuatro: Por El Camino De Bialet Masse (reference)

• Songs by Victor Masse (1822-1884, Including Chants Bretons) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Nono: Como una ola de fuerza y luz; Manzoni: Masse (reference)

• Choirs En Masse (reference)

• Masse Und Rasse [IMPORT] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Beds of Conch move en masse when food gets scarce. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP).

Japanese-American volunteers. Our new combat soldiers. Here they are--nearly 3,000 new American soldiers of Japanese ancestry--assembled at Oilani Palace grounds, Honolulu, for the farewell ceremony honoring them en masse. The new soldiers marched from th. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Economic History

Bangladesh

After another attempt at a negotiated settlement failed narrowly in late December 1994, the opposition resigned en masse from Parliament. (references)

Equatorial Guinea

Nigerian contract laborers on Bioko, estimated to have been 60,000, left en masse in early 1976. The economy collapsed, and skilled citizens and foreigners left. (references)

Minorities

Indonesia

According to these sources, Christians were herded into mosques and converted to Islam en masse. (references)

Political Economy

Bangladesh

Opposition MP's resigned en masse from Parliament in December 1994. The political impasse dragged on for nearly two years, and the opposition parties boycotted general elections held by the BNP in February 1996. The BNP government lost credibility with substantiated reports of vote rigging in the one-party election. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "masse": en masse ♦ filter masse ♦ leave en masse ♦ levee en masse ♦ Lev'ee en masse ♦ levy en masse ♦ masse cuite ♦ masse shot. Additional references.

Ending with "masse": Victor-masse.

Danish

tyksaft (masse cuite, massecuite, syruppy mass), fuldmasse (masse cuite, massecuite, syruppy mass), filtrermasse (filter block of paper pulp, filter masse), filtrerblokke af papirmasse (filter block of paper pulp, filter masse), choc en masse (choc en masse). (various references)

Dutch

vulmassa (filling, filling paste, masse cuite, massecuite, syruppy mass), kristalbrij (masse cuite, massecuite, syruppy mass), filtreermassa (filter block of paper pulp, filter masse), blok van papierstof voor filtreerdoeleinden (filter block of paper pulp, filter masse). (various references)

French

foule (mass). (various references)

German

Fuellmasse (masse cuite, massecuite, syruppy mass), Filterblock aus Papierhalbstoff (filter block of paper pulp, filter masse), eingekochte Masse (masse cuite, massecuite, syruppy mass), choc en masse (choc en masse). (various references)

Greek 

όγκος(πλάκα)διήθησης από χαρτοπολτό (filter block of paper pulp, filter masse), ψημένη μάζα (masse cuite, massecuite, syruppy mass). (various references)

Hungarian

mind (all, all of it, each, en masse, every, every one), tömegestől (en masse), tömegesen (en masse, in large quantities, in quantities), tömegben (en masse), egészében (at large, en masse, on the whole, to the full). (various references)

Indonesian

membanjir (in floods, rush en masse), gerudug (attack en masse). (various references)

Italian

massa cotta (masse cuite, massecuite, syruppy mass), blocco filtrante di pasta di carta (filter block of paper pulp, filter masse). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

挙�'て (all, en masse, whole), それ迄 (all together, careless, en masse, extortion, feel chilly, fidgety, in a body, in groups, in succession, like that, nervous, restless, rude, shiver, shudder, slovenly, sponging, such, that sort of, That's it, That's the end of the matter, thrill, uneasy, Until then), 内閣総辞職 (en masse resignation of the cabinet). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ないかくそうじしょく (en masse resignation of the cabinet), そろって (all together, en masse, in a body), あ�'て (all, en masse, whole). (various references)

Manx

ry-cheilley (en masse, together, with each other), ooilley-cooidjagh (altogether, en masse, quite). (various references)

Pig Latin

assemay

Portuguese

massa cozida (masse cuite, massecuite, syruppy mass), choque massivo (choc en masse), bloco filtrante de pasta de papel (filter block of paper pulp, filter masse). (various references)

Russian 

вместе (along with, altogether, en bloc, en masse, in conjunction, teamwise, together), в массе (en masse). (various references)

Spanish

masa cocida (masse cuite, massecuite, syruppy mass), bloque filtrante de pasta de papel (filter block of paper pulp, filter masse). (various references)

Turkish

topluca (all together, en masse, fattish, in a mass, in the lump), toplu halde (en masse, grouped), seferberlik (campaign, levee en masse, mobilization), hep birlikte (all together, en masse, in a body, in toto, in unison, with one accord), hep beraber (all together, as one man, en masse, in a body, in toto, with one accord, with one consent). (various references)

Vietnamese 

to� n thể (aggregate, all, en masse, entire, overall, teetotal, universal, universally), �" ạt; nhất tề gộp lại; cả đống (en masse). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "masse": massed, massedly, masses, masseter, masseteric, masseters, masseur, masseurs, masseuse, masseuses. (additional references)

Words containing "masse": admasses, amassed, amasser, amassers, amasses, biomasses, camasses, groundmasses, landmasses. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: mesas, seams.

-1 letter: maes, mass, mesa, mess, same, seam, seas.

-2 letters: ass, ems, ess, mae, mas, sae, sea.

-3 letters: ae, am, as, em, es, ma, me.

+1 letter: amuses, assume, manses, marses, masers, mashes, massed, masses, megass, mensas, messan, myases, sameks, sesame, shames, smazes, smears, steams.

+2 letters: ageisms, aimless, amassed, amasser, amasses, amusers, armless, assumed, assumer, assumes, camases, camises, damsels, demasts, desmans, embassy, impasse, inseams, jetsams, madness, manless, marshes, mashers, mashies, maskegs, maskers, masques, massage, masseur, massier, massive, masters, matless, mavises, measles, medusas, megasse, mescals, message, messans, messiah, messman, misease, miseats, misseat, mutases, myiases, sachems, samechs, samekhs, samiels, samisen, samites, samlets, samples, schemas, screams, seamers, seismal, sesames, shammes, shmears, siamese, smashed, smasher, smashes, smegmas, stamens, stemmas, streams, swamies, tamises, unseams, vamoses, wamuses, zymases.