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Meaning mass meaning

What does mass mean?
Definitions in simple English

mass Noun

— A measure of how much material is in something. The Earth has much more mass than the moon. The spacesuit weighed 75 pounds on Earth but here in outer space it weighed nothing, although its mass was exactly the same. — Much material. A mass of dirty branches stopped the river. — A Christian ceremony in memory of . He goes to mass every Sunday. — A crowd of people. A mass of protesters gathered at city hall.

mass

— noun the property of a body that causes it to have weight in a gravitational field — noun (= batch, deal, lot, mint, passel, plenty, slew, 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 — noun an ill-structured collection of similar things (objects or people) — noun a body of matter without definite shape a huge ice mass — noun (= masses, people) the common people generally separate the warriors from the mass power to the people — verb join together into a mass or collect or form a mass Crowds were massing outside the palace — noun (= bulk, 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 — adjective (= aggregate, aggregated) 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

Mass

— noun (Roman Catholic Church and Protestant Churches) the celebration of the Eucharist — noun a sequence of prayers constituting the Christian Eucharistic rite the priest said Mass — noun a musical setting for a Mass they played a Mass composed by Beethoven

Synonyms mass synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as mass?

mass English » English

heap crowd multitude pile lump collection bulk cluster throng group flock accumulation swarm volume stack quantity body lot liturgy batch aggregate weight gather congregate clump aggregation popular plenty people massive drift clot clod block assemblage agglomerate wad tumor tidy sum slew raft pot passel mountain mint mickle mess magnitude horde hatful

Mass English » English

church Eucharist rite Communion

Topics mass topics

What do people use mass to talk about?
Physical actions Arrange

Gather
Social behavior Religion Religious organization

Christianity
Physical actions Arrange

Multiple things moving
States

Big

  • What words refer to something that is big?
    mass giant
States Big

Weigh

  • What words refer to the weight of something?
    weight mass
Person Life Die

Kill
Person Life Die

Grave
Social behavior Social activity Come together, form a group

Crowd, group
Social behavior Conflict War

Weapon, shoot

Conjugation mass conjugation

How do you conjugate mass?

mass · verb

Examples mass examples

How do I use mass in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Never believe the mass media.
The change is possible if a critical mass of people is involved.
There is a mass of dark clouds in the sky.
Their small protest triggered a mass demonstration.
Why is it the mass media didn't report this?
The mass used to be said in Latin.
They called it mass murder.
Compare unidirectional mass media such as radio and television with bidirectional ones such as correspondence and the Internet.
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
The application allows you to quickly calculate the ratio of body mass index - BMI.
On behalf of the government, the mass media are abused.
Ceres contains one-third of the mass found in the asteroid belt.
A black hole in the center of the M87 galaxy in the constellation Virgo, which is 50 million light-years away, has been calculated to have a mass equal to that of 3 billion Suns!
Einstein showed that mass can be converted into energy and vice-versa.
The force of gravity between two objects is proportional to the product of the two masses, and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between their centers of mass.
Tens of thousands of people gathered in Saint Peter's Square on Sunday morning, despite the cold and the rain, to take part in Solemn Mass with Pope Francis in celebration of Easter.
Newspapers, television, and radio are called the mass media.
He is a mass of faults.
My grandfather goes to mass every Sunday.
Mass production lowers the cost of certain goods.
The mass is over.
Never trust the mass media.
The poor father forced himself to ask the sexton whether she had been to mass.

Movie subtitles

This telescope will also determine the planet's mass and distance from its star.
And if the red giant does not have enough mass to fuse carbon, an inert mass of carbon and oxygen builds up in the center, transforming into a dense white dwarf.
Certainly, after Mass.
Now we know you don't go to mass unless we make you.
At the signal, a mass of molten steel is directed from each furnace into the mold for the gun.
I am going to attend mass, my daughter.
Father. permit me to attend Mass.
Joan, if we permit you to attend Mass. will you stop wearing men's clothes?
So, you would rather dress as a man than attend Mass?
I know that in one of the schools. the boys have risen up in the classroom. and enlisted in a mass.
Mass the knights.
Mass the longbows on the right flank, crossbows on the left.
They mass for attack on the west tower.
The more acid, the quicker the liquid rubber resents the insult, and stiffens up into an indignant mass.
After mass.
A scurrying mass of bewildered humanity crashing headlong against each other.
H. Greg Company, 80 Milk Street, Boston, Mass. Dear sir.
See you at Mass Sunday? -Sure.
I was at Mass. It wasn't me either.
I expect I's gonna remain. - a mass of quivering' flesh.
The last mass trials were a great success.
You are a mass of intuition.
You're just a mass of prejudices, aren't you?
Kane, molder of mass opinion though he was in all his life was never granted elective office by the voters of his country.
See you at Mass Sunday?
I'm leading the annual procession behind the old chapel during the midnight mass.
The mass was underway.
Father Cornusse thinks he went to the Christmas mass.
Come, Holy Father, stop the mass.
Hurry now, my sweet. Or we'll be late for Mass.

News and current affairs

In many cases, lifesaving medicines can be cheaply mass-produced, but are sold at prices that block access to those who need them.
Many citizens believe, rightly, that their mass media are failing to investigate and document abuses.
When geo-strategic military front lines are non-existent, as in Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Iraq, mass no longer equals victory.
Higher interest rates to reduce the housing boom seem, even in retrospect, ill advised if the cost is mass unemployment.
The mystique of immense wealth, noble birth, and great exclusivity is further sustained by the global mass media that promote these rituals.
Kuwait now allows women to vote, Qatar has embraced an ambitious reform program, Bahrain has shown great tolerance of mass demonstrations, and the U.A.E. is allowing something like a free press.
Talk is growing of a change in US defense doctrine to allow for pre-emptive strikes on states that harbor weapons of mass destruction.
The common aim should be to remove the threat posed by a dictator with so well-documented a predilection for weapons of mass destruction.
Moreover, Saddam may already possess a weapon of mass destruction but has been deterred from using it.
It reached this zenith by surpassing cash-strapped Russia - long its only rival as a mass imprisonment society - after Russia released thousands of inmates so as to save money.
At the same time, the war left enormous pent-up demand for the products of mass production: cars, washing machines, refrigerators, lawn mowers, television sets, and more.
The United States seems to reel from one mass gun killing to another - roughly one a month this year alone.
Between the mid-1970's and the mid-1990's, Australia had several mass shootings.
In the US and many Latin American countries, slaveholding fueled mass violence as well.
Still, the Court should not hesitate to act outside Africa when mass atrocities demand redress.
Related to this, it is necessary to separate mass media from both power and the interests of capital.
Just imagine what might have happened with the works of, say, Proust, Kafka, Musil, Faulkner, or Borges had they been subjected to mass-market competition like shoes or cosmetics.
Weapons of mass destruction - nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons - are just that, and no cause can excuse their use.
The Iraq war was ostensibly launched because of Saddam's weapons of mass destruction, yet each passing day suggests that the threat was exaggerated.
But mass atrocity crimes did happen in Sri Lanka, there was moral default all around, and if we do not learn from this past, we will indeed be condemned to repeat it.
Changing weather patterns are already affecting the lives of millions of Africans by reducing food security, facilitating the spread of diseases like malaria, and prompting mass migration.
Moreover, as the terrorist attacks on America of 2001 showed, weapons as basic as box-cutters can become weapons of mass destruction if they are used to exploit the vulnerabilities of modern, global life.
But a broader economic initiative is also needed to mobilize a critical mass of European and international financial resources to attract investment to the region and modernize its infrastructures and services.

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