ENGLISH: mass - CREOLE: mas



Overview of noun mass



The noun mass has 9 senses (first 7 from tagged texts)



1. (109) mass -- (the property of a body that causes it to have weight in a gravitational field)

2. (14) batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, muckle, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad, whole lot, whole slew -- ((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"; "it must have cost plenty")

3. (12) mass -- (an ill-structured collection of similar things (objects or people))

4. (10) Mass -- ((Roman Catholic Church and Protestant Churches) the celebration of the Eucharist)

5. (6) mass -- (a body of matter without definite shape; "a huge ice mass")

6. (4) multitude, masses, mass, hoi polloi, people, the great unwashed -- (the common people generally; "separate the warriors from the mass"; "power to the people")

7. (3) bulk, mass, volume -- (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")

8. Mass -- (a musical setting for a Mass; "they played a Mass composed by Beethoven")

9. Mass -- (a sequence of prayers constituting the Christian Eucharistic rite; "the priest said Mass")



Overview of verb mass



The verb mass has 1 sense (first 1 from tagged texts)



1. (3) mass -- (join together into a mass or collect or form a mass; "Crowds were massing outside the palace")



Overview of adj mass



The adj mass has 1 sense (no senses from tagged texts)



1. aggregate, aggregated, aggregative, mass -- (gathered or tending to gather into a mass or whole; "aggregate expenses include expenses of all divisions combined for the entire year"; "the aggregated amount of indebtedness")

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