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[ UK /mˈæs/ ]
[ UK /mˈæs/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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formed of separate units gathered into a mass or whole
aggregate expenses include expenses of all divisions combined for the entire year
the aggregated amount of indebtedness
NOUN
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a body of matter without definite shape
a huge ice mass -
(often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent
see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos
a batch of letters
a slew of journalists
a lot of money
a wad of money
it must have cost plenty
a deal of trouble
he made a mint on the stock market -
the property of something that is great in magnitude
it is cheaper to buy it in bulk
the volume of exports
he received a mass of correspondence -
the common people generally
separate the warriors from the mass
power to the people - an ill-structured collection of similar things (objects or people)
- the property of a body that causes it to have weight in a gravitational field
VERB
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join together into a mass or collect or form a mass
Crowds were massing outside the palace
How To Use mass In A Sentence
- Rows of brick garden apartments all backed onto a massive common garden: a shared backyard for children to play, dogs to gambol, and families to eat picnics together. Day of Honey
- Instead of asking the fortunate few, why doesn't Ted asked the gifted masses of state employees to do a little giveback? We're! Number! 5! (Jack Bog's Blog)
- Mass culture is supposedly a leveler and globalizer - by definition, we all share mass cultural references.
- Equally badly behaved, but a little calmer and better informed, were the massive numbers from the labor unions.
- If you accept that you have to do mass education - and, to keep costs low and for a lot of other reasons, I think that's not an unreasonable conclusion - you have to systematize it.
- But as I was mulling this a little later, I was suddenly struck by one of those things that was probably already obvious to everyone else: There are a handful of strange inflection points where rock nerd culture and mass culture are in eerie synchrony for a few moments before skittering off in their respective ways for a bit — and one of them was my early teens. The (Rock) Stars Are Aligned
- It does a lot of spa treatments, everything from facials to aromatherapy to regular massage therapy.
- Though serfs were freed in 1864, they remained poor sharecroppers and staged a massive peasant uprising in 1907.
- There's no massive hills and the swim won't be rough. Times, Sunday Times
- Another harvest has failed, and international aid agencies warn of the threat of mass starvation.