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mass
A	noun
	1	Mass
			(Roman Catholic Church and Protestant Churches) the celebration of the Eucharist
		Category Tree: act; human action; human activity ╚activity ╚ceremony ╚religious ceremony; religious ritual ╚Mass ╚Requiem ╚Low Mass ╚High Mass
	2	mass
			the property of a body that causes it to have weight in a gravitational field
		Category Tree: abstraction ╚measure; quantity; amount ╚fundamental quantity; fundamental measure ╚mass ╚mass defect; mass deficiency ╚molecular weight; relative molecular mass ╚mass energy ╚atomic weight; relative atomic mass ╚atomic mass ╚inertial mass ╚gravitational mass ╚bulk ╚relativistic mass ╚rest mass ╚critical mass ╚biomass
	3	bulk, mass, volume
			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"
		Category Tree: abstraction ╚attribute ╚property ╚magnitude ╚bulk, mass, volume ╚dollar volume; turnover
	4	Mass
			a sequence of prayers constituting the Christian eucharistic rite; "the priest said Mass"
		Category Tree: abstraction ╚relation ╚social relation ╚communication ╚written communication; written language ╚writing; written material; piece of writing ╚sacred text; sacred writing; religious writing; religious text ╚prayer ╚Mass
	5	Mass
			a musical setting for a Mass; "they played a Mass composed by Beethoven"
		Category Tree: abstraction ╚relation ╚social relation ╚communication ╚expressive style; style ╚music genre; musical genre; genre; musical style ╚religious music; church music ╚Mass ╚Requiem
	6	mass
			an ill-structured collection of similar things (objects or people)
		Category Tree: group; grouping ╚collection; aggregation; accumulation; assemblage ╚mass ╚shock ╚logjam
	7	multitude, masses, mass, hoi polloi, people
			the common people generally; "separate the warriors from the mass"; "power to the people"
		Category Tree: group; grouping ╚multitude, masses, mass, hoi polloi, people ╚following; followers ╚audience ╚laity; temporalty
	8	mass
			a body of matter without definite shape; "a huge ice mass"
		Category Tree: entity ╚object; physical object ╚natural object ╚body ╚mass ╚pulp; mush ╚coprolith; fecalith; faecalith; stercolith
	9	batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, muckle, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad, whole lot, whole slew
			(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"
		Category Tree: abstraction ╚measure; quantity; amount ╚indefinite quantity ╚large indefinite quantity; large indefinite amount ╚batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, muckle, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad, whole lot, whole slew ╚flood; inundation; deluge; torrent
B	verb
	1	mass
			join together into a mass or collect or form a mass; "Crowds were massing outside the palace"
		Category Tree: act; move ╚interact ╚meet; gather; assemble; forgather; foregather ╚crowd; crowd together ╚mass ╚press
C	adjective
	1	aggregate, aggregated, aggregative, mass
			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"

	2	mass, large-scale
			occurring widely (as to many people); "mass destruction"

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