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Mass

noun

1.

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

2.

(often followed by 'of') a large number or amount or extent. Synonyms: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad. "A deal of trouble" , "A lot of money" , "He made a mint on the stock market" , "See the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos" , "It must have cost plenty" , "A slew of journalists" , "A wad of money"

3.

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

4.

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

5.

A body of matter without definite shape.

6.

The common people generally. Synonyms: hoi polloi, masses, multitude, people, the great unwashed. "Power to the people"

7.

The property of something that is great in magnitude. Synonyms: bulk, volume. "He received a mass of correspondence" , "The volume of exports"

8.

A musical setting for a Mass.

9.

A sequence of prayers constituting the Christian Eucharistic rite.

adjective

1.

Formed of separate units gathered into a mass or whole. Synonyms: aggregate, aggregated, aggregative. "The aggregated amount of indebtedness"

verb

(past & past part. massed; pres. part. massing)

1.

Join together into a mass or collect or form a mass.

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... distributed by the veins is derived from the liver; in which organ it is generated out of the materials brought from the alimentary canal by means of the vena portae. And all Harvey's predecessors further agree in the belief that only a small fraction of the total mass of the venous blood is conveyed by the vena arteriosa to the lungs and passes by the arteria venosa to the left ventricle, thence to be distributed over the body by the arteries. Whether some portion ...

— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 11 • Various

... aboard The Hawk did not speak again, and following The Hawk's searchlight with their eyes, the two lads saw a mass of wreckage floating ...

— The Boy Allies Under the Sea • Robert L. Drake

... had no sooner quitted my nag than I run hither to tell you of my return, thinking, if it were your will to permit me, that I would get your advice about being Mistress Catharine's Valentine for the year; and then I heard from Mrs. Dorothy that you were gone to hear mass at the Black Friars. So I thought I would follow thither, partly to hear the same mass with you, and partly—Our Lady and St. Valentine forgive me!—to look upon one who thinks little enough of me. And, as you entered ...

— The Fair Maid of Perth • Sir Walter Scott

... standing on my dignity, especially now since a new degree has added a moral cubit to my stature." Still the cries went on, and at last I saw nothing else to do than to edge back among the silk gowns, and so lose myself and be lost to the clamorous crowd in the mass of dignitaries. It was not indifference to the warmth of my welcome, but a feeling that I had no claim to address the audience because some of its younger members were too demonstrative. I have not forgotten ...

— Our Hundred Days in Europe • Oliver Wendell Holmes

... he dare not attempt to leave his partial shelter. The slightest movement, and the enemy would have closed his career. By night his foot would be a fiery torture, and by the time a doctor was near enough to help it would be a rotting mass of gangrene, and one man more would be added to the list ...

— Private Peat • Harold R. Peat

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