masses
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 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;
         "aggregate expenses include expenses of all divisions
         combined for the entire year"; "the aggregated amount of
         indebtedness" [syn: aggregate, aggregated, 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: (Roman Catholic Church and Protestant Churches) the
         celebration of the Eucharist
      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; "they played a Mass composed
         by Beethoven"
      9: a sequence of prayers constituting the Christian eucharistic
         rite; "the priest said Mass"
      v : join together into a mass or collect or form a mass; "Crowds
          were massing outside the palace"
      [also: masses (pl)]


 masses
      n : the common people generally; "separate the warriors from the
          mass"; "power to the people" [syn: multitude, mass, {hoi
          polloi, people]


 masses
      See mass