noun
- 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)
- usage: "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"
- An ill-structured collection of similar things (objects or people. )
- Roman Catholic Church and Protestant Churches. ( the celebration of the Eucharist)
- A body of matter without definite shape.
- usage: "a huge ice mass"
- The common people generally.
- usage: "separate the warriors from the mass"; "power to the people"
- synonyms: multitude, masses, hoi polloi, people, the great unwashed
- The property of something that is great in magnitude.
- usage: "it is cheaper to buy it in bulk"; "he received a mass of correspondence"; "the volume of exports"
- A musical setting for a Mass.
- usage: "they played a Mass composed by Beethoven"
- A sequence of prayers constituting the Christian Eucharistic rite.
- usage: "the priest said Mass"
verb
- Join together into a mass or collect or form a mass.
- usage: "Crowds were massing outside the palace"
adjective
- Formed of separate units gathered into a mass or whole.
- usage: "aggregate expenses include expenses of all divisions combined for the entire year"; "the aggregated amount of indebtedness"
- synonyms: aggregate, aggregated, aggregative
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