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11Mass — [ mæs ] noun count or uncount a ceremony in the Christian Church, especially the Roman Catholic Church, in which Jesus Christ s last meal with his DISCIPLES is remembered: attend/hear Mass celebrate Mass (=perform the ceremony): The Pope will… …
12mass — ► NOUN 1) a body of matter with no definite shape. 2) a large number of people or objects gathered together. 3) (before another noun ) done by or affecting large numbers: a mass exodus. 4) (the masses) the ordinary people. 5) (the mass of) the… …
13Mass — Mass, v. t. To form or collect into a mass; to form into a collective body; to bring together into masses; to assemble. [1913 Webster] But mass them together and they are terrible indeed. Coleridge. [1913 Webster] …
14Mass — Mass, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Massed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Massing}.] To celebrate Mass. [Obs.] Hooker. [1913 Webster] …
15mass|y — «MAS ee», adjective, mass|i|er, mass|i|est. 1. bulky and heavy; massive: »We closed all the massy shutters of our old building (Edgar Allan Poe) …
16mass# — mass n 1 *bulk, volume Analogous words: *aggregate, aggregation, conglomerate, conglomeration: *sum, amount, total, aggregate, whole 2 heap, pile, stack, shock, cock, bank (see under HEAP vb) Analogous words: accumulation, hoarding …
17mass — [n1] body of matter; considerable portion accumulation, aggregate, assemblage, band, batch, block, bulk, bunch, chunk, clot, coagulation, collection, combination, concretion, conglomeration, core, corpus, crowd, entirety, gob, great deal, greater …
18Mass — ► NOUN 1) the Christian Eucharist or Holy Communion, especially in the Roman Catholic Church. 2) a musical setting of parts of the liturgy used in the Mass. ORIGIN Latin missa, from mittere dismiss , perhaps from the last words of the service,… …
19Mass — Mass1 [mas] n. [ME masse < OE mæsse < LL(Ec) missa, mass, lit., dismissal, orig. pp. of L mittere, to dismiss < the words said by the priest ite, missa est (contio), go, (the meeting) is dismissed] [also m ] 1. the Roman Catholic… …
20Mass. — Mass. Massachusets Культурология. XX век. Энциклопедия. 1998 …
