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Adjective mass has 2 senses

mass, large-scale - occurring widely (as to many people); "mass destruction"
Antonym: specific (indirect, via general, nonspecific)
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"
Antonym: distributive (indirect, via collective)

Noun mass has 9 senses

mass - the property of a body that causes it to have weight in a gravitational field
--₁ is a kind of fundamental quantity, fundamental measure; physical property
--₁ has particulars:

biomass; critical mass; rest mass; relativistic mass; bulk; gravitational mass; inertial mass; atomic mass; atomic weight, relative atomic mass; mass energy; molecular weight, relative molecular mass; mass defect, mass deficiency

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"
--₂ is a kind of large indefinite quantity, large indefinite amount
--₂ has particulars: flood, inundation, deluge, torrent
mass - an ill-structured collection of similar things (objects or people)
--₃ is a kind of collection, aggregation, accumulation, assemblage
--₃ has particulars: logjam; shock
Derived form: verb mass₁
Mass - (Roman Catholic Church and Protestant Churches) the celebration of the Eucharist
--₄ is a kind of religious ceremony, religious ritual
--₄ has particulars: High Mass; Low Mass; Requiem
mass - a body of matter without definite shape; "a huge ice mass"
--₅ is a kind of body
--₅ has particulars:
coprolith, fecalith, faecalith, stercolith; pulp, mush
multitude, masses, mass, hoi polloi, people - the common people generally; "separate the warriors from the mass"; "power to the people"
--₆ is a kind of group, grouping
--₆ has particulars: laity, temporalty; audience; following, followers
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"
--₇ is a kind of magnitude
--₇ has particulars: dollar volume, turnover
Mass - a musical setting for a Mass; "they played a Mass composed by Beethoven"
--₈ is a kind of religious music, church music
--₈ is a part of High Mass
--₈ has particulars: Requiem
Mass - a sequence of prayers constituting the Christian eucharistic rite; "the priest said Mass"
--₉ is a kind of prayer

Verb mass has 1 sense

mass - join together into a mass or collect or form a mass; "Crowds were massing outside the palace"
--₁ is one way to crowd, crowd together

Derived form: noun mass₃
Sample sentence:
The crowds mass in the streets