Mass

(noun.) (Roman Catholic Church and Protestant Churches) the celebration of the Eucharist.

(noun.) the property of a body that causes it to have weight in a gravitational field.

(noun.) a sequence of prayers constituting the Christian Eucharistic rite; 'the priest said Mass'.

(noun.) a musical setting for a Mass; 'they played a Mass composed by Beethoven'.

(noun.) an ill-structured collection of similar things (objects or people).

(noun.) a body of matter without definite shape; 'a huge ice mass'.

(verb.) join together into a mass or collect or form a mass; 'Crowds were massing outside the palace'.

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• Let it suffice h ere to state that Rutherford assumes that the greater mass of the atom consis ts o f negatively charged particles rotating about a positive nucle us. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• When the mass of men emerged from slavish obedience and made democracy inevitable, the taboo entered upon its final illness. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• His dislike of mankind, of the mass of mankind, amounted almost to an illness. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• The atom, to be sure, can no longer be consider ed the smallest unit of matter, as the mass of a β particle is approximately one seventeen-hundredths that of an atom of hydrogen. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• In spite of such support, and its strong appeal to national vanity, British imperialism never saturated the mass of the British peoples. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The wanderings led to the old ore-milling plant at Edison, now practically a mass of deserted buildings all going to decay. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• As a great modern philosopher has said, Aristotle press ed his way through the mass of things knowable, and subjected its diversity to the power of his thought. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• Now how did those masses of oyster-shells get there? 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• The vault above became obscured, lightning flashed from the heavy masses, followed instantaneously by crashing thunder; then the big rain fell. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• From the cooling and cont racting masses that were to constitute the planets smaller zones and rings were formed. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• Nobody knows how many rebellions besides political rebellions ferment in the masses of life which people earth. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• The holes, which usually are about a foot deep, are made by the crab persistently digging up and carrying away little masses of mud or sand. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• The masses of furze and heath to the right and left were dark as ever; a mere half-moon was powerless to silver such sable features as theirs. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• If they come in at all, it is as a concession to the material needs of the masses. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• To the left, in Baird's front where Bragg's troops had massed against Sherman, the resistance was more stubborn and the contest lasted longer. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• Perched on its eternal hills, white and domed and solid, massed together and hooped with high gray walls, the venerable city gleamed in the sun. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Blue-white stones of exceptionally fine color are often massed full of shaggy or jet-black carbon spots. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• He caused his companions to drill for a massed charge. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• They started from Liverpool, and the people massed along the line cheered and cheered again as they saw the eight trains speed along at the rate of twenty-four miles an hour. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• Lee massed heavily from his left flank on the broken point of his line. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• The reserves of the 9th corps should be massed as much as possible. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• If you want to understand our life you must see that it is determined by the massing of capital in the hands of a few. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Instead of massing them in big bunches as our head-gardener does, she had scattered them about loosely, here and there . 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• Bragg at once commenced massing in the same direction. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.

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