Mass

1. (noun) the celebration of the Eucharist (in the Roman Catholic Church and some Protestant Churches)
Related Words: High Mass, Low Mass, Requiem, religious ceremony, religious ritual

2. (satellite adjective) occurring widely (as to many people); "mass destruction"
Synonyms: large-scale

3. (verb) join together into a mass; collect or form a mass; of crowds of people; "Crowds were massing outside the palace"
Related Words: crowd, crowd together, draw together, press

4. (noun) the property of a body that causes it to have weight in a gravitational field
Related Words: atomic mass, atomic weight, biomass, bulk, gravitational mass, inertial mass, mass defect, mass deficiency, molecular weight, physical property, relative atomic mass, relative molecular mass, relativistic mass, rest mass

5. (noun) a musical setting for a Mass
Related Words: Requiem, church music, religious music

6. (noun) an ill-structured collection of similar things (objects or people)
Related Words: accumulation, aggregation, assemblage, collection, logjam, shock

7. (noun) a large body of matter without definite shape; "a huge ice mass"
Related Words: body, pulp

8. (noun) the property of something that is great in magnitude; "it is cheaper to buy it in bulk"; "he received a mass of correspondence"; "the volume of exports"
Synonyms: bulk, volume
Related Words: dollar volume, magnitude, turnover

9. (satellite adjective) gathered or tending to gather into a mass or whole; "the aggregate amount of indebtedness"
Synonyms: aggregate, aggregative

10. (noun) the common people generally; "separate the warriors from the mass"; "power to the people"
Synonyms: hoi polloi, masses, multitude, people
Related Words: audience, followers, following, group, grouping, laity, temporalty

11. (noun) (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent: "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money"; "it must have cost plenty"
Synonyms: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mess, mickle, mint, muckle, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad, whole lot, whole slew
Related Words: deluge, flood, large indefinite amount, large indefinite quantity, torrent



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