Mass

/mæs/ · noun

Meaning

(physical) Matter, material..

Definitions by Sense

1. (physical) Matter, material.
2. A large quantity; a sum.
3. (ergative) To form or collect into a mass; to form into a collective body; to assemble.
4. Involving a mass of things; concerning a large quantity or number.
5. Involving a mass of people; of, for, or by the masses.
6. (Christianity) The Eucharist, now especially in Roman Catholicism.
7. (Christianity) Celebration of the Eucharist.
8. (Christianity, by extension) The main kind of church service, in some denominations.

Example Sentences

[…]he hath discovered to me the way to five or six of the richest mines which the Spaniard hath, and whence all the mass of gold that comes into Spain in effect is drawn.

For though he had spent a huge mass of treasure in transporting his army, […].

They would unavoidably mix up the whole of these declarations, and mass them together, although the Judge might direct the Jury not to do so.

Every bend on the hill had acted like a funnel to mass them together in this peculiar way.

Where there is too great a repetition of forms, light and shade will break them up or mass them together.

There is evidence of mass extinctions in the distant past.

The national liberation movement had not yet developed to a sufficiently mass scale.

With perhaps unprecedented magnitude and clarity, Auschwitz brings theologians and philosophers face to face with the facts of suffering on an incredibly mass scale, with issues poignantly raised concerning the absence of divine intervention or the inadequacies of divine power or benevolence; […].

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Word Forms

• masses
• massing
• massed
• masser
• massest

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