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; a batch of letters; 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
[ Syn: 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 ]
an ill-structured collection of similar things (objects or people)
(Roman Catholic Church and Protestant Churches) the celebration of the Eucharist
[ Syn: mass ]
a body of matter without definite shape; a huge ice mass'
the common people generally; separate the warriors from the mass; power to the people
[ Syn: multitude , masses , hoi polloi , people , the great unwashed ]
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
a musical setting for a Mass; they played a Mass composed by Beethoven
[ Syn: mass ]
a sequence of prayers constituting the Christian Eucharistic rite; the priest said Mass
[ Syn: mass ]
mass (n.)
formed of separate units gathered into a mass or whole; aggregate expenses include expenses of all divisions combined for the entire year; the aggregated amount of indebtedness
[ Syn: aggregate , aggregated , aggregative ]
mass (adj.)
join together into a mass or collect or form a mass; Crowds were massing outside the palace'