to mass
27
4.8
- verb
- /mæs/
- But now he receives reports there are French forces massing between him and Mantua.
- mass together
- massed troops
- massed military
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- They said Taliban forces are massed on the outskirts of Kabul.
Examples
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In 1990, the U.S.-led coalition had massed nearly 500,000 troops in Saudi Arabia.
Academic text (2005) -
They said Taliban forces are massed on the outskirts of Kabul.
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And exactly from that moment, Putin started to mass his troops on the Ukrainian border.
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There were European Union troops massing on the border some, but they never actually went in.
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In response, some 20,000 citizens massed outside the camp in the early morning.
Academic text (2006) -
As of this moment, Sassa is massing for a military strike against us.
Fiction book (1992) -
The castle wall had been breached,... ... enemy troops were massing toward them.
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Sensing this danger, the Carthaginians massed their own fleet to intercept them.
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Militia and regular troops were massed along the Aroostook River in Maine and New Brunswick.
Academic text (2000) -
In preparation for the parade, volunteers began to mass at the designated meeting point.
Synonyms
177
3.3
To gather people in one place for a purpose
94
1.6
To move many people or animals into a small space
74
2.0
To move together in large numbers
55
3.7
To bring people or things together into one group
47
1.2
To put people and things together by type or purpose
30
7.4
Come together to form one group or whole
28
1.2
To gather things or people into a group
23
5.5
To crowd around someone or something closely and quickly
17
3.5
To come together in a small group or make people do the same
4
3.0
To stand or move closely in a group
4
3.1
To move or bring close together to form a small group
2
7.4
To join several groups or parts to make one
1
8.4
To join together to form a mass or cluster
1
6.3
To gather different things into one group
To bring people or things together into a group
Antonyms
Phrasal Verbs
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 Large
Surface Forms
Etymology
Mass as a verb comes from the same old Latin massa, meaning 'lump', and it originally meant to form into a lump. To mass is to gather or come together into a large group or pile. That's why people say protesters 'massed' or clouds 'massed' when they collected in one place.