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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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"Mass" Quotes from Famous Books

... on these coasts traces of grand designs for the future are evident. The mass of the people, being originally composed of the unfortunate and of wrong-doers, might have propagated immorality and corruption, if the Government had not taken in good time means to prevent such a sad ...

— The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders • Ernest Scott

... the roots, like grass, While the new lips my spirit would kiss Were not red lips of flesh, But the huge kiss of power? Where yesterday soft hair through my fingers fell, A shaggy mane would entwine, And no slim form work fire to my thighs, But human Life's inarticulate mass Throb the pulse of a thing Whose mountain flanks awry Beg my mastery—mine! Ah! I will ride the dizzy beast of the world ...

— Georgian Poetry 1916-17 • Various

... that would be on Mr. Penn's plan; and so to Cohocsink Creek dragoons and foot. North of them were Colonel Montresor's nine blockhouses, connected by a heavy stockade and abatis, and in front of this chevaux-de-frise and the tangled mass of dead trees which had so beaten me when I escaped. The stockade and the brush and the tumbled fruit-trees were dry from long exposure, and were, I thought, well fitted ...

— Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker • S. Weir Mitchell

... the parapet and looking over at the enemy. I climbed up, and there, to my astonishment, I saw the Germans moving about in their trenches apparently quite indifferent to the fact that we were gazing at them. One man was sawing wood. Between us and them lay that mass of wire and iron posts which is known as the mysterious "No Man's Land." Further down the hill we saw the trenches of the 13th Battalion, where apparently intermittent "Straffing" was still going on. Where we were, however, ...

— The Great War As I Saw It • Frederick George Scott

... sat down beside Jezef with some charts. "I think I'll appoint you Fleet Poet. Here's the plan. No one knows what I intend; we could be on our way around the sun to overtake Coar and either fight or surrender, or we might be diving into the sun in a mass suicide. That's why I broke off the siege and pulled all units away from Coar; the fact that they're coming back around to meet us will ...

— Tulan • Carroll Mather Capps

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