mass

UK /mæs/ US /mæs/
noun 13verb 2adj 2name 2

Definitions

noun

1

Matter, material.

And if it were not for theſe Principles the Bodies of the Earth, Planets, Comets, Sun, and all things in them would grow cold and freeze, and become inactive Maſſes ; […].

[…] and because a deep mass of continual sea is slower stirred to rage.

2

Matter, material.

Right in the midst the Goddesse selfe did stand / Upon an altar of some costly masse […].

3

Matter, material.

4

Matter, material.

blue mass

5

Matter, material.

verb

1

To form or collect into a mass; to form into a collective body; to assemble.

They would unavoidably mix up the whole of these declarations, and mass them together, although the Judge might direct the Jury not to do so.

Every bend on the hill had acted like a funnel to mass them together in this peculiar way.

adj

1

Involving a mass of things; concerning a large quantity or number.

There is evidence of mass extinctions in the distant past.

The national liberation movement had not yet developed to a sufficiently mass scale.

2

Involving a mass of people; of, for, or by the masses.

Mass unemployment resulted from the financial collapse.

Every agency is sold on use of mass media today — or at least, it thinks it is — and what can be "masser" than television?

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