mass
765
2.7
- noun
- /mæs/
- A mass of circumstantial evidence.
- mass media
- mass production
- mass-produced goods
Examples
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A soldier leans toward them and points to the mass of marching men.
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There is now little doubt that this mass meeting will take place.
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There must be tens of thousands of them in that mass.
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We talk about them as an undifferentiated mass of people.
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Together they started back across the plain through masses of huddled people and scampering children.
Fiction book (1992) -
From behind them, he could hear the bewildered murmur from the mass of humanity imprisoned inside.
Fiction book (1994) -
The cobbled crosswalk filled with a pedestrian mass of sweating, sun-dazed Finns.
Fiction book (1996) -
Her curls had kinked into an orangey, frizzy mass, accenting the freckles on her face.
Fiction book (1993) -
There must be tens of thousands of them in that mass of people at the concert.
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The students gathered in a mass in the school yard during the fire drill.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
A large amount of something
∞
1.0
A number of people or things seen as one unit
∞
1.0
A large amount that is more than needed
∞
1.0
Many people or things are close together in one place
447
1.9
A heap of things put together
193
1.0
A pile of things placed one on top of another
144
2.3
Ordinary people in a society who are not rich or powerful
47
5.7
A large number of things or people
19
1.4
A large amount of things often in a messy pile
18
2.7
People or things that form one unit
12
5.9
A large number of things or people
12
6.1
A group of things joined together as one whole
7
7.4
A group of different things gathered in one place
4
5.6
A large group of ordinary people in a society
3
9.5
A large group of people or things
1
8.6
A group of things or people gathered together
1
8.0
A pile of things gathered together
Antonyms
Compounds
- Formal
158
4.8
A thing that can kill or injure many people, like nuclear, chemical and biological devices
- Specialized
6
3.2
A number that shows if a person's weight is healthy for their height
- Specialized
4
5.7
Point in an object where we think its mass is concentrated for balance and movement
- Specialized
3
5.5
A machine that measures the masses of charged particles from a sample
- Specialized
3
3.4
A large area of air with about the same temperature, humidity, and pressure
- Specialized
1
3.6
A number that tells how heavy one atom of an element is in atomic mass units
- Specialized
1
6.2
The smallest amount of nuclear material needed to start and keep a chain reaction
- Specialized
1
5.9
A word that names something you cannot count and usually has no plural form
- Specialized
1
7.4
The amount of matter in an object measured when it is not moving, not how heavy it feels
- Specialized
1
8.6
A measure of how hard it is to change an object's motion when a force pushes it
- Formal
1
4.9
A computer attack that can damage systems and harm many people
- Specialized
1
4.0
The total mass in a system that does not gain or lose matter stays the same over time
- Specialized
1
9.9
The mass a moving object seems to have as its speed gets near the speed of light
1
3.7
A system of underground or above ground trains that carries many people quickly
- Specialized
1
6.0
The speed of a chemical reaction depends on the amounts of the substances that react
- Specialized
1
8.1
The idea that mass can turn into energy and energy can turn into mass
- Specialized
1
7.9
A measure of how strongly an object pulls other objects by gravity
- Specialized
1
4.9
A machine that separates tiny charged parts of atoms by mass and shows them on a graph
- Specialized
1
5.3
The mass of an atom compared with one twelfth of a carbon-12 atom
- Specialized
The mass difference between a nucleus inside an atom and the total mass of its protons and neutrons
- Specialized
Amount of mass missing when protons and neutrons join and release energy
- Specialized
A theory that large areas of the brain work together for complex tasks
- Specialized
The mass of all the atoms in one molecule compared with one twelfth of a carbon-12 atom
How Many
Surface Forms
Etymology
Mass comes from the old Latin word massa, which means 'lump' or 'clump', and you can see the same root in massive. Picture a large pile or a big amount of things gathered together. So, a mass is a large group or quantity of people or things.