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Masses   /mˈæsəz/  /mˈæsɪz/   Listen
Masses

noun
1.
The common people generally.  Synonyms: hoi polloi, mass, multitude, people, the great unwashed.  "Power to the people"


Mass

noun
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.  Synonyms: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad.  "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.
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.
6.
The common people generally.  Synonyms: hoi polloi, masses, multitude, people, the great unwashed.  "Power to the people"
7.
The property of something that is great in magnitude.  Synonyms: bulk, volume.  "He received a mass of correspondence" , "The volume of exports"
8.
A musical setting for a Mass.
9.
A sequence of prayers constituting the Christian Eucharistic rite.
verb
(past & past part. massed; pres. part. massing)
1.
Join together into a mass or collect or form a mass.


Masse

noun
1.
A shot in billiards made by hitting the cue ball with the cue held nearly vertically; the cue ball spins around another ball before hitting the object ball.  Synonym: masse shot.



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"Masses" Quotes from Famous Books



... has so succeeded in imitating him as to remind us of him by even so much as the gait of a single verse?[127] Those magnificent crystallizations of feeling and phrase, basaltic masses, molten and interfused by the primal fires of passion, are not to be reproduced by the slow experiments of the laboratory striving to parody creation with artifice. Mr. Matthew Arnold seems to think that Shakespeare has damaged ...
— Among My Books - First Series • James Russell Lowell
... buried in the ground. Between the two ends the raft was held up against the current by twenty-five or thirty 3,000-pound anchors, with sixty fathoms of chain on each. This raft, placed early in the winter, showed signs of giving in February, when the spring-floods came sweeping enormous masses of drift upon it, and by the 10th of March the cables had snapped, leaving about a third of the river open. Colonel Higgins was then directed to restore it. He found it had broken from both sides, and attempted to replace it by ...
— The Gulf and Inland Waters - The Navy in the Civil War. Volume 3. • A. T. Mahan
... explained by Newton, is good, but grandeur, when we find chemistry only an extension of the law of masses into particles, and that the atomic theory shows the action of chemistry to be mechanical also. Metaphysics shows us a sort of gravitation, operative also in the mental phenomena; and the terrible tabulation of the French statists brings every ...
— Representative Men • Ralph Waldo Emerson
... officer of The Army has the honour to be chosen for service similar to that William Booth undertook when he first turned to the unchurched masses of the East End of London. To him is committed the spiritual responsibility for the town or part of the town in which he is stationed. He is there to preach in the streets to the people who will not go to places of worship, and by every lawful means to compel them to his hall ...
— The Angel Adjutant of "Twice Born Men" • Minnie L. Carpenter
... has been in existence for fifty years, was first offered to the world in 1870 by a famous French chemist, Mege-Mouries, who was in search of a butter substitute cheap enough to supply the masses with the much-needed food element. He had noticed that the children of the poor families were afflicted with rickets and other diseases which could be remedied by the administration of the right amount of fat. He combined fresh suet and milk and called the product ...
— Foods That Will Win The War And How To Cook Them (1918) • C. Houston Goudiss and Alberta M. Goudiss


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