Mass - definition, pronunciation, transcription

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Amer.  |mæs|  American pronunciation of the word mass
Brit.  |mæs|  British pronunciation of the word mass

noun

- the property of a body that causes it to have weight in a gravitational field
- (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent (syn: batch, deal, flock, heap, lot, mess, mint, mountain, peck, pile, plenty, pot, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, wad)
- an ill-structured collection of similar things (objects or people)
- (Roman Catholic Church and Protestant Churches) the celebration of the Eucharist
- a body of matter without definite shape
a huge ice mass
- the common people generally (syn: masses, multitude, people)
separate the warriors from the mass
- the property of something that is great in magnitude (syn: bulk, volume)
he received a mass of correspondence
- a musical setting for a Mass
- a sequence of prayers constituting the Christian Eucharistic rite

verb

- join together into a mass or collect or form a mass
Crowds were massing outside the palace

adjective

- formed of separate units gathered into a mass or whole (syn: aggregate, aggregated, aggregative)

Extra examples

A large crowd of demonstrators massed outside the courthouse.

Clouds were massing on the horizon.

The generals massed their troops.

Television is a mass medium.

A large gray, indistinct mass stretched all along from east to west.

There were masses of camellias and azaleas.

There is a mass of letters on my table this morning.

He is a mass of bruises.

The great mass of the people had no part in the election of representatives.

The great bands of caribou massed up on the edge of the woods.

The food had congealed into a sticky mass.

Masses of books covered every surface in the room.

There was a mass of people around the club entrance.

The road was blocked by a solid mass of protesters.

What time do you go to mass?

Word forms

verb
I/you/we/they: mass
he/she/it: masses
present participle: massing
past tense: massed
past participle: massed
noun
singular: mass
plural: masses
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