| 释义 |
Noun: mass mas- The property of a body that causes it to have weight in a gravitational field
- (often followed by 'of') a large number or amount or extent
- batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mess, mickle [archaic], mint, mountain, muckle, passel [US], peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad - An ill-structured collection of similar things (objects or people)
- A body of matter without definite shape
"a huge ice mass" - The common people generally
"separate the warriors from the mass"
- multitude, masses, hoi polloi, people, the great unwashed - The property of something that is great in magnitude
"he received a mass of correspondence"
- bulk, volume
Verb: mass mas- Join together into a mass or collect or form a mass
"Crowds were massing outside the palace"
Adjective: mass mas- Formed of separate units gathered into a mass or whole
- aggregate, aggregated, aggregative
Noun: Mass mas- (Roman Catholic Church and Protestant Churches) the celebration of the Eucharist
- A sequence of prayers constituting the Christian Eucharistic rite
"the priest said Mass" - A musical setting for a Mass
"they played a Mass composed by Beethoven"
Derived forms: masses, massed, massing, Masses See also: collective Type of: accumulation, aggregation, assemblage, body, church music, collection, crowd, crowd together, fundamental measure, fundamental quantity, group, grouping, large indefinite amount, large indefinite quantity, magnitude, physical property, prayer, religious ceremony, religious music, religious ritual Part of: High Mass Encyclopedia: Mass, Chapter and Conventual Mass Mass, Liturgy of the Mass, Nuptial Mass, Music of the |