mass
adj 1: occurring widely (as to many people); "mass destruction"
[syn: {large-scale}]
2: gathered or tending to gather into a mass or whole; "the
aggregate amount of indebtedness" [syn: {aggregate}, {aggregative}]
n 1: the property of a body that causes it to have weight in a
gravitational field
2: (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent:
"a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of
money"; "it must have cost plenty" [syn: {batch}, {deal},
{flock}, {good deal}, {great deal}, {hatful}, {heap}, {lot},
{mess}, {mickle}, {mint}, {muckle}, {peck}, {pile}, {plenty},
{pot}, {quite a little}, {raft}, {sight}, {slew}, {spate},
{stack}, {tidy sum}, {wad}, {whole lot}, {whole slew}]
3: an ill-structured collection of similar things (objects or
people)
4: the celebration of the Eucharist (in the Roman Catholic
Church and some Protestant Churches) [syn: {Mass}]
5: a large body of matter without definite shape; "a huge ice
mass"
6: the common people generally; "separate the warriors from the
mass"; "power to the people" [syn: {multitude}, {masses},
{hoi polloi}, {people}]
7: 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" [syn: {bulk}, {volume}]
8: a musical setting for a Mass [syn: {Mass}]
v : join together into a mass; collect or form a mass; of crowds
of people; "Crowds were massing outside the palace"