mass
71
2.7
- noun
- /mæs/
:
masa
- 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
426
1.9
A heap of things put together
182
1.0
A pile of things placed one on top of another
54
1.4
A large amount of things often in a messy pile
46
5.7
A large number of things or people
15
5.6
A large group of ordinary people in a society
14
5.9
A large number of things or people
11
6.1
A group of things joined together as one whole
10
2.7
People or things that form one unit
7
7.4
A group of different things gathered in one place
4
9.5
A large group of people or things
2
2.3
Ordinary people in a society who are not rich or powerful
1
8.6
A group of things or people gathered together
A pile of things gathered together
Antonyms
Compounds
- Formal
96
4.8
A thing that can kill or injure many people, like nuclear, chemical and biological devices
- Specialized
5
5.7
Point in an object where we think its mass is concentrated for balance and movement
- Specialized
4
3.2
A number that shows if a person's weight is healthy for their height
- 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
2
6.2
The smallest amount of nuclear material needed to start and keep a chain reaction
- Specialized
1
3.6
A number that tells how heavy one atom of an element is in atomic mass units
- Specialized
1
4.0
The total mass in a system that does not gain or lose matter stays the same over time
- Formal
1
4.9
A computer attack that can damage systems and harm many people
- Specialized
1
8.6
A measure of how hard it is to change an object's motion when a force pushes it
- Specialized
1
7.4
The amount of matter in an object measured when it is not moving, not how heavy it feels
- Specialized
The speed of a chemical reaction depends on the amounts of the substances that react
- 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 word that names something you cannot count and usually has no plural form
A system of underground or above ground trains that carries many people quickly
- Specialized
A machine that separates tiny charged parts of atoms by mass and shows them on a graph
- Specialized
A theory that large areas of the brain work together for complex tasks
- Specialized
The idea that mass can turn into energy and energy can turn into mass
- Specialized
A measure of how strongly an object pulls other objects by gravity
- Specialized
The mass of an atom compared with one twelfth of a carbon-12 atom
- Specialized
The mass of all the atoms in one molecule compared with one twelfth of a carbon-12 atom
- Specialized
The mass a moving object seems to have as its speed gets near the speed of light
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.