Definitions for masses



Overview of noun masses

The noun masses has 1 senses? (first 1 from tagged texts)
1. (3) multitude, masses, mass, hoi polloi, people, the great unwashed

(the common people generally; "separate the warriors from the mass"; "power to the people")


Overview of noun mass

The noun mass has 9 senses? (first 7 from tagged texts)
1. (35) 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, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad

((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")

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 noun masse

The noun masse has 1 senses? (no senses from tagged texts)
1. masse, masse shot

(a shot in billiards made by hitting the cue ball with the cue held nearly vertically; the cue ball spins around another ball before hitting the object ball)


Overview of verb mass

The verb mass has 1 senses? (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")

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