mass
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3.0
- noun
- /mæs/
:
masa
- Movies are entertaining enough for the masses, but the personalities on the screen just don't impress me.
- mass media
- mass culture
- mobilize the masses
He says the mass of men, the mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
- He says the mass of men, the mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
- You know that is its function is to just divide the masses and keep us dumb.
Examples
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And yet, I already know... that what we say here... means nothing to the masses of our country.
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So, we now gonna be feeding the masses.
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Such influence is at the direct expense of the mass of the people in Nigeria.
Academic text (1990) -
Church is the opiate of the masses.
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Sir, you heard from the men who don't like my humour, but what about the silent masses who do?
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You don't know what kind of seed it's gonna plant, and, you know, the politicians and the big businesses will listen to the masses.
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It is a dangerous distraction to the masses.
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I don't understand how there isn't a mass progressive movement to oppose it.
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The people here in Kenya, masses of the Africans here in Kenya, are probably roughly at about the same stage Great Britain was 500 years ago.
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Dance is becoming more accessible to the masses as new studios open in every neighborhood.
Synonyms
264
1.0
Human beings in a group, for example in a country
16
1.3
People who are not rich or powerful
15
5.6
A large group of ordinary people in a society
4
9.0
People in a society who are not rich or powerful
3
8.8
Ordinary people who richer, more powerful people often talk about in a rude way
2
2.3
Ordinary people in a society who are not rich or powerful
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 massa, meaning 'lump', and it helps to imagine many ordinary people as one large group. When writers speak of the 'mass' they mean the common people rather than a few rich or powerful people. That's why 'the mass' means the ordinary people of society.