Definition of mass

"mass" in the noun sense

1. mass

the property of a body that causes it to have weight in a gravitational field

2. 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. mass

an ill-structured collection of similar things (objects or people)

4. Mass

Roman Catholic Church and Protestant Churches) the celebration of the Eucharist

5. mass

a body of matter without definite shape

"a huge ice mass"

6. multitude, masses, mass, hoi polloi, people, the great unwashed

the common people generally

"separate the warriors from the mass"

"power to the people"

7. 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"

"mass" in the verb sense

1. mass

join together into a mass or collect or form a mass

"Crowds were massing outside the palace"

"mass" in the adjective sense

1. aggregate, aggregated, aggregative, mass

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"

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Quotations for mass

No priest no mass. [ Proverb ]

A rude and unarranged mass. [ Ovid ]

A mass is as good said as sung. [ Italian Proverb ]

A mind moves or informs the mass. [ Virgil ]

You had rather go to mill than to mass. [ Proverb ]

You cannot say mass but at your own altar. [ Proverb ]

Hark to that shrill, sudden shout,
The cry of an applauding multitude,
Swayed by some loud-voiced orator who wields,
The living mass as if he were its soul! [ William Cullen Bryant ]

An enthusiasm with which one or a mass of people is infected. [ German ]

The fire of my adversity has purged the mass of my acquaintance. [ Bolingbroke ]

The aim of all intellectual training for the mass of the people should be to cultivate commonsense. [ J. Stuart Mill ]

A forest of all manner of trees is poor, if not disagreeable, in effect; a mass of one species of tree is sublime. [ Ruskin ]

It is astonishing the influence foolish apothegms have upon the mass of mankind, though they are not unfrequently fallacies. [ Sydney Smith ]

Great men are the modellers, patterns, and in a wide sense creators, of whatsoever the general mass of men contrived to do and attain. [ Carlyle ]

There is so little to redeem the dry mass of follies and errors from which the materials of this life are composed that anything to love or to reverence becomes, as it were, the Sabbath for the mind. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

Art is the microscope of the mind, which sharpens the wit as the other does the sight; and converts every object into a little universe in itself. Art may be said to draw aside the veil from nature. To those who are perfectly unskilled in the practice, unimbued with the principles of art, most objects present only a confused mass. [ Hazlitt ]

A time will come when the science of destruction shall bend before the arts of peace; when the genius which multiplies our powers, which creates new products, which diffuses comfort and happiness among the great mass of the people, shall occupy in the general estimation of mankind that rank which reason and commonsense now assign to it. [ Arago ]

Candlesticks and incense not being portable into the maintop, the sailor perceives these decorations to be, on the whole, inessential to a maintop mass. Sails must be set and cables bent, be it never so strict a saint's day; and it is found that no harm comes of it. Absolution on a lee-shore must be had of the breakers, it appears, if at all; and they give plenary and brief without listening to confession. [ Ruskin ]

mass in Scrabble®

The word mass is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 6

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters mass:

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mass in Words With Friends™

The word mass is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 7

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Words within the letters of mass

2 letter words in mass (3 words)

3 letter words in mass (2 words)

4 letter words in mass (1 word)

Word Growth involving mass

Shorter words in mass

as ass

as mas

ma mas

Longer words containing mass

airmass

amass amassed unamassed

amass amasses

amass amassing

amass ultramassive

biomass biomasses

cellmass

fillmass fillmasses

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massed amassed unamassed

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massing amassing

massive massively

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massless

massmongered

massmongerer massmongerers

massmongeries

massmongering

massmongers

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massproduce massproduced

massproduce massproduces

massproducing

massproduction massproductions

sarmassophobe sarmassophobes

sarmassophobia

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