mass (
http://definr.com/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"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "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 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"