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Mass

Mass

138 4.9
A Christian church service where people receive bread and wine to remember Jesus
  • noun
  • /mæs/
: misa
  • You're gonna be late for Easter mass.
  • attend Mass
  • Sunday Mass
  • celebrate Mass

That was because of people who went to Latin Mass as Catholics.

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Examples

Synonyms

communion
vsMass
55 4.9

A Christian ceremony where people share bread and wine to remember Jesus

is the formal Roman Catholic ceremony that carries out that shared practice
Eucharist
vsMass
18 9.3

A Christian service when people bless and eat bread and drink wine to remember Jesus' Last Supper

is the Roman Catholic ceremony that celebrates that same sacrament
Holy Communion
vsMass
  • Formal
10 6.3

A Christian ceremony when people eat bread and drink wine to remember the Last Supper

is the full Roman Catholic ceremony rather than only the act of receiving
Holy Sacrament
vsMass
  • Formal
3 9.8

A religious ceremony where Christians bless bread and wine to remember Jesus' Last Supper

is the specific Roman Catholic celebration of that sacred rite
Holy Eucharist
vsMass
  • Formal
2 8.1

A Christian ceremony when people bless and eat bread and wine to remember Jesus' Last Supper

focuses specifically on the Roman Catholic form of that ceremony
High Mass
vsMass
1 8.9

A solemn Catholic church service with full ceremony, music, and incense

is a general Roman Catholic ceremony that can be simpler or more elaborate
Low Mass
vsMass
1 9.2

A priest leads a short Roman Catholic church service with little or no singing

is the broader Roman Catholic ceremony that may include more features
liturgy
vsMass
1 9.1

A Christian ceremony that blesses bread and wine to remember the Last Supper

is the Roman Catholic instance of that rite with its traditions

A Christian ceremony where people eat bread and drink wine to remember Jesus' death and his rising from the dead

is the Roman Catholic service that enacts this sacrament
missa
vsMass
  • Specialized
1 9.9

A Catholic church service where people receive bread and wine

is the general name for the same Roman Catholic ceremony
1 9.9

A Christian ceremony where bread and wine are blessed and eaten to remember Jesus' Last Supper

is the term as used particularly within Roman Catholic worship
communio
vsMass
9.9

A Christian service in which people receive bread and wine to show unity

is the complete Roman Catholic ceremony that includes that receiving
ceremonial mass
vsMass
  • Formal
6.1

A formal church service with set ceremonies and a serious mood

is the Roman Catholic ceremony specifically used for the Eucharist

Compounds

170 4.3

Great damage to a wide area often caused by war or a big disaster

A thing that can kill or injure many people, like nuclear, chemical and biological devices

48 6.7

Killing many people on purpose at the same time or in a short time

34 7.7

A person who kills many people at one time

28 3.8

A way to send information to many people, like TV or radio

20 5.6

Enough people or support for something to start and keep going

13 6.1

Many people feel strong fear and act in a panicked, irrational way

Making large numbers of the same product on an assembly line

13 2.8

A large area of land that is not separated by water

body mass index
  • Specialized
6 3.2

A number that shows if a person's weight is healthy for their height

mass spec
  • Jargon
6 3.8

A lab test that finds which chemicals are in a sample

4 3.9

A set of shared ideas, styles, and entertainment spread by TV and the internet

center of mass
  • Specialized
4 5.7

Point in an object where we think its mass is concentrated for balance and movement

mass spectrometer
  • Specialized
3 5.5

A machine that measures the masses of charged particles from a sample

air mass
  • Specialized
3 3.4

A large area of air with about the same temperature, humidity, and pressure

mass energy
  • Specialized
3 7.9

Energy an object has because of its mass, as in E = mc²

atomic mass
  • Specialized
1 3.6

A number that tells how heavy one atom of an element is in atomic mass units

1 3.4

A large public gathering where people meet to support or protest a cause

critical mass
  • Specialized
1 6.2

The smallest amount of nuclear material needed to start and keep a chain reaction

1 8.9

A solemn Catholic church service with full ceremony, music, and incense

ice mass
  • Specialized
1 3.3

A large area of ice that forms part of a glacier or ice sheet

1 9.2

A priest leads a short Roman Catholic church service with little or no singing

point mass
  • Specialized
1 7.9

An object with mass but no size used to make physics problems easier

mass noun
  • Specialized
1 5.9

A word that names something you cannot count and usually has no plural form

rest mass
  • Specialized
1 7.4

The amount of matter in an object measured when it is not moving, not how heavy it feels

inertial mass
  • Specialized
1 8.6

A measure of how hard it is to change an object's motion when a force pushes it

1 8.5

A card sent to someone who lost a loved one saying a Mass will be said for them

mass number
  • Specialized
1 4.9

The total number of protons and neutrons in an atom's nucleus

A computer attack that can damage systems and harm many people

conservation of mass
  • Specialized
1 4.0

The total mass in a system that does not gain or lose matter stays the same over time

mass unit
  • Specialized
1 3.0

A unit used to measure how heavy something is, like a gram or kilogram

mass spectrum
  • Specialized
1 6.8

A graph that shows how many charged particles have each mass

relativistic mass
  • Specialized
1 9.9

The mass a moving object seems to have as its speed gets near the speed of light

mass spectroscopy
  • Specialized
1 6.0

A method that measures the mass of tiny charged particles

A system of underground or above ground trains that carries many people quickly

mass action
  • Specialized
1 8.8

Large areas of the brain work together for complex tasks

law of mass action
  • Specialized
1 6.0

The speed of a chemical reaction depends on the amounts of the substances that react

1 8.1

The idea that mass can turn into energy and energy can turn into mass

atomic mass unit
  • Specialized
1 3.9

A small unit for mass used to measure atoms and molecules

1 4.1

Matter stays the same in a closed system

1 4.1

A large public discussion with many people about important issues

gravitational mass
  • Specialized
1 7.9

A measure of how strongly an object pulls other objects by gravity

mass spectrograph
  • Specialized
1 4.9

A machine that separates tiny charged parts of atoms by mass and shows them on a graph

relative atomic mass
  • Specialized
1 5.3

The mass of an atom compared with one twelfth of a carbon-12 atom

pointlike mass
  • Specialized
1 8.6

A mass with no size that physicists treat as if at a single point

6.1

A formal church service with set ceremonies and a serious mood

mass defect
  • Specialized
7.4

The mass difference between a nucleus inside an atom and the total mass of its protons and neutrons

mass deficiency
  • Specialized
7.7

Amount of mass missing when protons and neutrons join and release energy

mass-action principle
  • Specialized
9.8

A theory that large areas of the brain work together for complex tasks

5.6

The mass of all the atoms in one molecule compared with one twelfth of a carbon-12 atom

How Long

retreat
49 6.0
Mass
138 4.9
service
300 4.2
devotional
2 7.4
prayer
∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

Mass singular
Masses plural

Etymology

Mass comes from the old Latin word missa, which comes from mittere meaning 'to send'. People called the Christian service 'Mass' because it ends with the words 'Ite, missa est', a kind of 'sending' or dismissal, and that name stayed with the ceremony.