Definitions for Mass

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Mass mass

Spelling: [mas]

IPA: /mæs/

Mass is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 26 anagrams from letters in Mass (amss).

Definitions for Mass

noun

1. a body of coherent matter, usually of indefinite shape and often of considerable size:
2. a collection of incoherent particles, parts, or objects regarded as forming one body: Synonyms: assemblage, heap, congeries.
3. aggregate; whole (usually preceded by in the):
4. a considerable assemblage, number, or quantity: Synonyms: collection, accumulation, pile, conglomeration.
5. bulk, size, expanse, or massiveness: Synonyms: magnitude, dimension.
6. Fine Arts. Painting. an expanse of color or tone that defines form or shape in general outline rather than in detail. a shape or three-dimensional volume that has or gives the illusion of having weight, density, and bulk.
7. the main body, bulk, or greater part of anything: Synonyms: majority.
8. Physics. the quantity of matter as determined from its weight or from Newton's second law of motion. Abbreviation: m. Compare weight (def 2), relativistic mass, rest mass.
9. Pharmacology. a preparation of thick, pasty consistency, from which pills are made.
10. the masses, the ordinary or common people as a whole; the working classes or the lower social classes. Synonyms: proletariat, plebeians.
11. the celebration of the Eucharist. Compare High Mass, Low Mass.
12. (sometimes lowercase) a musical setting of certain parts of this service, as the Kyrie eleison, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, Benedictus, and Agnus Dei.

adjective

1. pertaining to, involving, or affecting a large number of people:
2. participated in or performed by a large number of people, especially together in a group:
3. pertaining to, involving, or characteristic of the mass of the people:
4. reaching or designed to reach a large number of people:
5. done on a large scale or in large quantities:

verb (used with object)

1. to gather into or dispose in a mass or masses; assemble: Synonyms: collect, marshal, amass, aggregate. Antonyms: disperse.

verb (used without object)

1. to come together in or form a mass or masses:

Origin of Mass

1350-1400; Middle English masse Latin massa mass Greek mâza barley cake, akin to mássein to knead

Examples for Mass

In the nearer ranks we may discern the variety of ingredients that compose the mass.

Gone is the mass of the mountains, the stoniness of rocks, the hard solidity of iron.

We missed our morning mass, it will do us no harm to hear Nones in the Minster.

Google itself has taken a break and put plans for mass production on hold.

Their bodies were later found incinerated and buried in mass graves outside of town.

“The United States had gone to war declaring it must destroy an active weapons of mass destruction program,” the Times reported.

The mass was an ornate one, though not more so than they were accustomed to at Beaulieu.

I thought he was going to give that mass of flowers to me, but he did not.

There were mass closures of churches, mosques, and monasteries, and new taxes on religious facilities.

The number of protests in China between 2006 and 2010 doubled to 180,000, and those are only the reported “mass incidents.”