to mass
34
4.8
- verb
- /mæs/
:
concentrar
- But now he receives reports there are French forces massing between him and Mantua.
- mass together
- massed troops
- massed military
They said Taliban forces are massed on the outskirts of Kabul.
- 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
175
1.6
To move many people or animals into a small space
152
3.3
To gather people in one place for a purpose
74
2.0
To move together in large numbers
65
3.7
To bring people or things together into one group
41
3.5
To come together in a small group or make people do the same
38
1.2
To put people and things together by type or purpose
30
1.2
To gather things or people into a group
15
7.4
Come together to form one group or whole
5
3.1
To move or bring close together to form a small group
4
7.4
To join several groups or parts to make one
3
5.5
To crowd around someone or something closely and quickly
2
3.0
To stand or move closely in a group
1
8.4
To join together to form a mass or cluster
To gather different things into one group
To bring people or things together into a group
Antonyms
Phrasal Verbs
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 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.