I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a bank/mass of cloud (= a large block of cloud )
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A heavy bank of cloud was creeping across the sky.
a dense mass
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a dense mass of equatorial rainforest
a mass audience (= a very large number of people )
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Radio brought entertainment to a mass audience.
a mass demonstration (= involving a very large number of people )
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There have been mass demonstrations in some American cities.
a mass execution (= one in which many people are killed at the same time )
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Eleven convicted murderers were hanged in what was the country's biggest ever mass execution.
a mass grave (= one that is filled with many people, especially people killed in a war or people who died of a disease at a similar time )
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Plague victims were buried in a mass grave.
a mass protest (= one involving a lot of people )
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There were mass protests in the capital.
a mass rally (= a large rally )
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a mass rally of striking dockers
a mass/mop of curls (= a lot of curls )
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a gorgeous Italian man with a mass of dark curls
amorphous mass
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an amorphous mass of twisted metal
be a mass of flowers (= have a lot of flowers growing on every part )
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In spring, the valley is a mass of flowers.
body mass index
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Your body mass index is your weight in kilograms divided by the square of your height in meters.
critical mass
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How can we get a critical mass of people involved to keep the club running?
High Mass
mass communication (= involving many people in a country, the world etc )
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Television, radio and other forms of mass communication have made the world a global village.
mass exodus
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I joined the mass exodus for drinks during the interval.
mass hysteria
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Since the general’s death, the population has been gripped by mass hysteria .
mass media
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The crime received heavy coverage in the mass media.
mass murder (= of a large number of people )
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Hitler was responsible for the largest mass murder in history.
mass murderer
mass picket (= one involving a lot of people )
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There was a mass picket by students outside the main office of the university.
mass production
mass suicide (= when many people commit suicide together )
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He ordered his followers to commit mass suicide.
mass transit
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The city has virtually no mass transit.
mass unemployment (= when very large numbers of people are unemployed )
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the mass unemployment of the 1930s
mass/large-scale redundancies
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The company is preparing large-scale redundancies at its British factories.
mass/popular entertainment (= popular with large numbers of people )
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Reality TV has been a very successful form of mass entertainment.
the mass media (= television, newspapers etc, which are seen by many people )
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The mass media has helped to call attention to environmental issues.
weapons of mass destruction (= weapons intended to cause a lot of death and destruction )
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The country is believed to have the potential to develop weapons of mass destruction.
weapons of mass destruction
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
critical
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Analyzing each of the members of the critical mass with regard to readiness and capability.
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But from 1992 until today a critical mass of the people and teams at Magma Metals have delivered unprecedented performance and change.
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He was practically laughing out loud as Ali reached critical mass .
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By using critical mass and monolithic buying power, we can change the way we do business.
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Some 1950 million years ago, sufficient uranium was precipitated from solutions in the rocks at Oklo to reach critical mass .
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The clusters helped recruit businesses, created the critical mass needed to start programs, and provided work-based learning opportunities for students.
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Soon a critical mass of investment was achieved, a pattern established and documented.
dark
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Clouds crept up silently like assassins from the southwest and gathered in a dark and threatening mass .
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A dark mass trudged towards the entrance to the mill, lit by two lanterns.
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She ran her fingers through the dark mass of her hair and let out a deep sigh.
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Sliding down the rails, a large dark mass was coming towards them.
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I looked round to glimpse the dark mass of Royston Manor and the swaying corpse of the hanged man caught my glance.
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It showed a dark mass close to the front of the skull.
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Then he recognised the darker mass of the dinghy against the white foam.
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I gaze at the island, a dark mass against the still-light sky.
great
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In order to achieve a high speed the mass of propellant burnt must be much greater than the mass of the rocket.
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The great mass of people, at least by the standards of our time, had little.
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For although the great mass of its membership was working class, it also embraced an increasing section of the industrial bourgeoisie.
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Some felt like insignificant ants in a great mass of urban workers.
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But the Jenkins family, part of the great mass , were trapped in the middle of it.
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But the great mass of students were drifting through, as Che or Simeon had done.
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These great masses moved steadily, noiselessly and always in the same direction.
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The ground shook beneath the steady marching of the great mass of men and the tread of thousands of hoofs.
high
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In order to achieve a high speed the mass of propellant burnt must be much greater than the mass of the rocket.
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That dame would break up a high mass .
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The transport energy penalty of a high-mass construction was described above.
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No words to it, just the music they play at benediction after the high mass .
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The high-mass room has the following volumes of material available for storing heat.
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The blocks of high land are masses of granite, called batholiths, except Exmoor which is made of sandstone.
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This approach reinforces the idea of a very high level of insulation, coupled with high thermal mass .
large
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Separate from these groups was the large mass of youth whose clothes were chain store versions of traditional styles.
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It was the largest mass murder ever on U.S. soil.
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Competition between a large mass of parasites and the host for nutrients may be the underlying cause of this weight loss.
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Such ease of access means that very large masses of asteroid materials can be returned to the vicinity of Earth.
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More neurons are needed to control their larger muscle mass and to collect data from their extra sensors.
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Sliding down the rails, a large dark mass was coming towards them.
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Matter in large masses must always be fixed and dear; form is cheap and transportable.
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In space it still has a large mass and so requires a large force to get it moving.
low
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From the observed orbit of the visible star, one can determine the lowest possible mass of the unseen object.
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As the process of decay continues, amines of lower and lower molecular mass are produced.
molar
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The Landsberger method can be used to determine the molar mass of the dissolved solute.
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Variations in shape are found for different molar masses and when the sample is crosslinked or partly crystalline.
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The molar mass can then be calculated from where K * is the calibration constant.
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The molar mass of a liquid which is immiscible with water can be calculated from steam distillation data.
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Fractions of increasing molar mass are collected from the bottom of the column.
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Calculate the molar mass of phenylamine.
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Samples are separated according to functionality or chemical composition as well as molar mass .
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A useful approach was proposed by Schulz who suggested that a cumulative mass fraction be plotted against the molar mass.
molecular
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The approximate molecular masses of the bands were calculated from the migration of known standards.
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The van't Hoff equation can be used to determine the relative molecular mass from experimentally determined values of osmotic pressure.
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Calculate the relative molecular mass of Y. 2.
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The method is particularly useful for determining the average relative molecular masses of polymers and other macromolecular substances.
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Describe an experiment by which you would determine the relative molecular mass of a gas or vapour.
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Protein EP1242L has a deduced molecular mass of 139.9 kDa, and an isoelectric point of 7.3.
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The ratio between the integrated peak areas for each subunit was determined and corrected for the molecular mass of each subunit.
relative
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The van't Hoff equation can be used to determine the relative molecular mass from experimentally determined values of osmotic pressure.
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Calculate the relative molecular mass of Y. 2.
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The method is particularly useful for determining the average relative molecular masses of polymers and other macromolecular substances.
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Describe an experiment by which you would determine the relative molecular mass of a gas or vapour.
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Its relative molecular mass is 142.5.
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The relative molecular masses of non-volatile substances can be determined experimentally by colligative methods.
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The relative molecular mass of NaCl determined from the elevation of boiling point is thus approximately half that calculated from its formula.
solid
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To the Gaijin rear Jotan's five hundred were a solid mass cutting off the line of retreat.
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The drained curd, now a solid mass , is turned out of the muslin and the really hard work of milling begins.
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Walls can be cut half-way down or at either side to form dividing slabs rather than solid masses .
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The hygroscopic mixture got damp; when the humidity went down again it caked into an intractable solid mass .
thermal
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No attempt has been made to increase the thermal mass beyond the dimensions that would be necessary in normal construction.
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This suggests that it will need thermal mass to make the best use of the intermittent heat gains that it receives.
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Any discussion of space heating should also consider the thermal mass of the house.
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The effect of thermal mass on the overall space-heating energy demand of a house can be significant.
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This assumption omits any effects from both solar gains and thermal mass .
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At this point the calculations of thermal mass made earlier come into play.
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Table 4.11 showed the conclusions that were reached about the thermal mass of various constructional options for the hypothetical room.
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This approach reinforces the idea of a very high level of insulation, coupled with high thermal mass .
total
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The solution of Einstein's equation in this case is the Oppenheimer-Volkoff equation: where M is the total mass given by.
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Typically the biggest fragment produced by breakup is 10 to 50 percent of the total mass .
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Table 6.12 itemizes the various mass elements used in the house, and shows their relative contributions to the total mass.
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The total mass of carbon works out to about ten tons per person.
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Number and diameter as indicators of the total stone mass seem to be important determinants with regard to complete stone disappearance.
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Unfortunately, there is as yet no basis for estimating their total number or total mass .
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The fully fuelled Saturn V sitting on the launch pad had a total mass some 56 times that of the Apollo spacecraft.
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It is that when the spring is coiled, the total mass of that jack-in-the-box is increased as a result.
vast
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The vast mass of peasantry could be neutralized by promising land reforms.
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The entire economically problematical process of exporting vast masses of material from the Moon is neatly avoided.
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Such an economy was highly dependent on a vast mass of skilled labour and a greater horde of the lesser skilled.
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Large explosions heat vast masses of the atmosphere to such high temperatures that nitrogen is partially burned to make toxic nitrogen oxides.
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The Secretary was also responsible for collecting and storing the vast and increasing mass of information required by sixteenth-century governments.
■ NOUN
body
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These results did not differ when acid output was expressed as mmol/h/kg lean body mass or mmol/h/kg fat free body weight.
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A more accurate assessment can be gained by calculating your body mass index or your percentage of body fat.
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The body mass index is the most commonly used method for classifying obesity.
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But I could tell they were soldiers who relied primarily on body mass and muscle strength and seemingly superior weapons.
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What determines the cost of movement are speed and body mass .
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The Diet Center monitors your body composition and works on improving your ratio of lean body mass to fat.
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The right side of the formula is smaller for animals with greater body mass .
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The Problem of Body Size At this stage body mass - or size - looms ever larger in importance.
cell
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It is in just those few cells in the inner cell mass that we have our origins.
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The patterning problem here is what specifies which cells will form the trophoblast and which cells will form the inner cell mass .
land
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Fermanagh the Carboniferous sediments thin northwards against the land mass from which they were derived.
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First, it is linked with the East by a broadening continental land mass .
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The shelves come to an abrupt stop as the protruding land masses plunge into the depths.
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State boundaries are haphazardly drawn across land masses and linguistic, cultural and ethnic lines.
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That was Uulaa-la, the dominant city on the planets dominant land mass .
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For Mahan sea power was critical, for Mackinder a particular land mass .
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In time, the tourist hordes will be drawn to the mountains that cover most of its land mass .
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The same processes could explain how related species appeared on widely separated land masses .
media
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The extent of the impact of mass media on our perception of reality has been difficult to assess.
murderer
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Burt an the Yurt-man, a mass murderer and chicken-farm burner.
■ VERB
celebrate
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He had gone, as usual, to celebrate Sunday mass .
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Thirteen churches in the Louth-South Armagh border zone have been asked not to celebrate Sunday mass .
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The question as to whether an unchaste priest might celebrate the mass became important.
produce
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It also allowed the rocket to settle under the stresses produced by the mass of propellant.
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The Linotype machine and high-capacity rotary press produced mass circulation newspapers, which-until radio and television came along-largely replaced personal-encounter politics.
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Mass CustomizationIndividually customized products produced on a mass scale.
reach
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I would disagree with Juliette that feminism doesn't reach the masses of women's lives.
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I saw myself reaching into that mass and grabbing a big handful and squeezing.
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He was practically laughing out loud as Ali reached critical mass .
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Some thing or things have to happen for a microbe to escape its previously harmless ecological niche and reach critical mass .
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Some 1950 million years ago, sufficient uranium was precipitated from solutions in the rocks at Oklo to reach critical mass .
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Table 4.11 showed the conclusions that were reached about the thermal mass of various constructional options for the hypothetical room.
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It had managed to reach the mass of people and make them aware of possible means of tackling their problems.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the mass media
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A mass of people stood before the courthouse.
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The bus station was a seething mass of people.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A mass of bodies scrambled over the shelves, everybody was shouting at one another and books were being thrown in all directions.
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Aerobic exercise and reduced-calorie diets produce weight loss, but reduce the resting metabolic rate because they do not maintain muscle mass .
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Balustraded verandas surmounted each level, and a succession of towers projected from the mass of the building.
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Soon afterwards, as in the Western Middle Ages, there were masses of peasant serfs, and great feudal States.
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The mass is apparently about right, and the Z o has appeared at just the right frequency.
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What would he say of the masses of modern art that you have to plug in in order to fully appreciate?
II. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
action
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Only a society in which people feel secure in their peer groups can bring about such mass action from below.
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They do not yet see the need or possibility of broader mass actions , the scope of which would reach revolutionary proportions.
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The conference called for mass action in support of a transitional government and for a constitutional assembly to negotiate the new constitution.
appeal
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In terms of mass appeal rugby comes fourth after Gaelic football, hurling and soccer.
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And academic recognition particularly so, because mass appeal and intellectualism so seldom meet on the same plane.
audience
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These ideas were expounded to mass audiences .
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Only television can reach a truly mass audience .
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This is to be avoided at all costs if the channel is to remain a mass audience broadcaster.
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The mass audiences and the technology for reaching them are what give the press and electronic media their character as mass media.
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Radio brought entertainment to a mass audience , in particular light musical entertainment: it produced the age of the great dance bands.
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At present, radio is the only communication medium in the country which has achieved a mass audience .
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Today the terrible injustice done to those prisoners reaches a mass audience .
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The new audience was a mass audience but no previous audience in history had ever been given so much careful attention.
circulation
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The only game in town was mass circulation , and that was to be achieved by NoS becoming an aggressively popular tabloid.
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In quest of mass circulation and advertising support, the major city newspapers gradually developed a tradition of political and journalistic independence.
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Sadly, commentators and writers in the mass circulation dailies sometimes lack the ability to discriminate.
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The very fact they are bought and read daily by millions of people gives mass circulation newspapers an undeniable political role.
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Perhaps a government subsidy, sourced from entertainment tax, should have been applied in the interests of mass circulation .
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The offeror must then publicise this intention in a mass circulation newspaper or by some other means approved by the supervisory authority.
communication
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Thirdly, there are certain aspects of mass communication which are sometimes overlooked in media education.
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Almost every photographic aberration is now legible because of its constant recurrence in all the vehicles of visual mass communication .
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That sort of mistake was almost inconceivable, in an age of mass communications .
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The second great new agent of mass communication was the radio.
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It is the most powerful medium for mass communication so far devised.
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The seminar is open to people involved in mass communication and theological training from around the world.
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New religious ideas and moral codes were made accessible by widescale immigration, cultural exchanges and mass communication .
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The three case studies illustrate different aspects of mass communication and society.
consumption
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Dependent on state patronage, Soviet official art was a public, epic, partisan art intended for mass consumption .
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To locate objects in relation to interest and power, however sophisticated and non-reductionist, is only one perspective upon mass consumption .
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How has jewellery fared in societies in which mass consumption prevails?
culture
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There are two particular knowledge systems that attract the attention of critical theory: science and mass culture .
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Negativland is out to liberate mass culture from the hands of commerce.
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These values will mediate the impact of mass culture .
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Modern electronic technologies promote radical individualism, and mass culture controls national leaders much more than national leaders control the mass culture.
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In chapter 9, this will be reviewed in relation to the earlier critique of mass culture .
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Modern electronic technologies promote radical individualism, and mass culture controls national leaders much more than national leaders control the mass culture.
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It is hard to see why these considerations should have changed under mass culture .
demonstration
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On April 3 mass demonstrations protesting at the killings took place throughout the Kathmandu area.
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Feb. 23-Chechen nationalists plan to hold mass demonstrations in Grozny, capital of the breakaway republic.
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Meanwhile the opposition threatened to resume mass demonstrations if an acceptable political agreement was not reached.
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On 16 November the 5 October route was traversed again, this time by a mass demonstration .
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A mass demonstration on the Means Test had petered out in confusion and each party blamed the other for its failure.
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The mass demonstrations demanded his resignation, the abrogation of the socialist constitution, a national conference and a new constitution.
destruction
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Has there been an improvement in stopping smuggling and building weapons of mass destruction ?
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In July 1834, rioting against abolitionists in New York City resulted in mass destruction of the black section.
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Inevitably, worldwide control over the use of weapons of mass destruction will create new political and military dangers.
entertainment
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What had arrived now really was mass entertainment .
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In the process it invented mass entertainment , the 10-lane freeway and smog.
exodus
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Murdoch's motivation was simply profit, and his cynical attitude had already led to a mass exodus of high-minded journalists.
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Dissatisfaction, exacerbated by the non-payment of the usual bonuses, led to a mass exodus and mutiny.
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The social and economic consequences of mass exodus for the countries receiving those affected will be examined.
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The Politburo issued a statement regretting for the first time the mass exodus to the West.
grave
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Most sombre of all is the tomb over the mass grave of the R-101 victims at Cardington, Bedfordshire.
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In Los Mochis, meanwhile, bodies are being exhumed from the mass graves one by one as they are identified.
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Village residents stated that at least 100 people had been murdered and buried in mass graves in the area.
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But the tombs were empty; the bodies had been bulldozed into mass graves in the south, where they had fallen.
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Arms and legs, some of which still moved, were sticking out of the mass graves .
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Discovery of Stalinist victims' graves During March a number of mass graves were found near former concentration camps or prisoner-of-war camps.
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They were digging a mass grave .
hysteria
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Total confusion reigns supreme, and an atmosphere close to mass hysteria ensues.
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But the news of serial killings last year led to near mass hysteria .
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I've never before or since seen instant mass hysteria to match it.
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Was this all just a matter of runaway credulity, mass hysteria , or overwrought salesmanship?
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All they had in common was their sense of urgency: the mass hysteria that characterizes the week before Christmas.
index
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Obesity can increase nocturnal hypoxaemia, and we found a positive relation between body mass index and the presence of oedema.
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Body mass index is a measurement of height and weight that is used to determine obesity.
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A direct relation between body mass index and the risk of gall bladder disease has been described.
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The body mass index is a convenient measure on which to make this judgment.
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Group mean body mass index in hypertensive men rose from 28.4 to 29.4, and in controls from 26.4 to 27.4.
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The degree of glucose intolerance for any given birth weight was influenced independently by body mass index in adulthood.
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Waist-hip ratio, age and body mass index were separately related to probability of conception per cycle.
market
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Unfortunately, material legitimizing drugs can be found in music, film, television, the Internet and mass market outlets.
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The 500 is obviously the unit for the mass market , so that's the one I looked at.
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Dolby Digital, the next generation in surround-sound, is coming to the mass market .
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In 1996 desktop computer software will allow two-way conversations, bringing the technology to the mass market .&038;.
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Honda admits the model introduction is more a subsidized experiment than mass market pitch.
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The Midland, however, cannily saw the profit to be made from exploiting the potential mass market and led the way.
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The market is now the mass market.
media
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The conflict was regularly reported in the mass media and had a serious effect on public confidence in the party.
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And this was a case of mass media manipulation.
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Like the mass media , popular prints perpetuated escapist, conservative and conformist ideals and outlooks.
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The fifth reason was that mixed feelings seemed to exist about the mass media generally and radio in particular.
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No real political issues ever debated in the mass media ?
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The mass media and particularly television can create the aura of charisma around people of otherwise unexceptional personality.
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I am particularly looking forward to giving a different kind of news to the press and mass media from here.
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But the mass media do not single-handedly give shape to the contours of the political system.
medium
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Might advertising be regarded as a mass medium on similar grounds?
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Here, his old taste for face-to-face encounters was complemented by his mastery of the new mass medium of television.
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The Manchester Guardian was a mass medium in Manchester from its foundation in 1821.
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Or is film, not cinema, the mass medium ?
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The same product, the Sun, can thus be described in several different ways as a mass medium .
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Radio had only recently developed into a mass medium for news and entertainment.
meeting
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There was then a deep distrust throughout the party. as Law discovered in 1920: Bonar addressed a mass meeting .
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One of the frequent mass meetings attended by workers was taking place.
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Workers were given the grim news by union officials at a mass meeting .
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Time allowed 05:41 Read in studio A mass meeting of council workers has been told that redundancies are unavoidable.
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To his disgust he found that the workers would no longer respond to his call for mass meetings during working hours.
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In mid-November another mass meeting reaffirmed the Naythuyein resolutions and called for the dissolution of the recently formed Governor's Council.
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For a while it organised mass meetings outside Eastbourne and Rye and sought to push up wages during the harvest season.
movement
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Divorced from the mass movement , a revolutionary cadre becomes a sect.
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They also made it clear that the party fears that New Forum and other opposition groups could turn into mass movements .
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Divorced from the program of revolutionary Marxism, cadres immersed in the mass movement eventually succumb to opportunism.
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The revolution of 1905 saw Social Democracy become a truly mass movement , and Bolshevik influence rose rapidly.
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That is why we have not become a stronger mass movement .
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Only a few manometric studies have attempted to characterise the motility patterns associated with mass movements .
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At the time, however, the opportunity for an alliance failed to trigger a new mass movement .
murder
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But the intentional mass murder of innocent people is not.
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On these pretexts they were subjected to recurring cycles of violence, mass expulsion, and mass murder .
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The fugitives, two of whom have been recaptured, are accused of genocide, mass murder and other crimes.
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Too few for Hello! magazine, maybe, but too many in a book about the mass murder of innocent people.
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His 12-year reign of terror left 26,000 dead in assassinations, mass murders and car bombings, nearly destroying the state.
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So chance played a part in the mass murder , did it?
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Why are we asked to apologize to apologists of mass murder ?
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The Aramoana incident was the country's worst case of mass murder .
murderer
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But at this moment Kate could not have cared less if he was a mass murderer .
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That year, Esquire magazine sent contributing editor Philip Caputo to Stockton to discover what might have motivated the mass murderer .
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The art of a mass murderer .
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I was sitting with my feet up, watching a film about a puerto Rican mass murderer .
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The puerto Rican mass murderer was letting off a pump-action shotgun into a bus queue in downtown Los Angeles.
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Especially when I am watching puerto Rican mass murderers .
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Just one of those casual I-can-do-anything-I-want-any-time-I-want-and-make-you-like-it gestures so beloved of megalomaniacs, mass murderers and the Gunmint.
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The families of mass murderer Allitt's victims are also demanding that any inquiry be held in public.
party
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In this he was undoubtedly assisted by problems within both mass parties .
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It is important to distinguish the various ways in which mass parties were created.
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Their analysis is: get real, the high electoral turnouts and mass parties of the postwar period were an aberration.
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Hence the parliamentary leaders dominated the mass party , which was conceived only as a means for contesting elections.
picket
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However, on 18 June, a secretly organised mass picket caught the police momentarily off guard.
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There was also a mass picket by supporters outside the Home Office.
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Events at this picket were to shape the character of the next major mass picket of Hadfields on 12 March.
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In Nottinghamshire and adjacent Warwickshire and Leicestershire, pits continued to operate, despite physical intimidation by mass pickets .
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Further violent demonstrations by mass pickets led to £525,000 additional fines being imposed.
production
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The mass production enterprise is a case in point.
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The years 1880 to 1930 were shaped by the spread of electric power, mass production , and democracy.
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Second-pass silicon will sample in the third quarter, with mass production coming by the end of the year.
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Why commission a craftsman to labour for weeks on a design of guitar that was specifically intended for mass production ?
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In the commercial horticultural field, the mass production of pot plants has been facilitated through cloning.
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For skill, both craft and continuous-flow production require a higher proportion of skilled workers than machine minding and mass production.
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The dominance of mass production meant that this was a system characterized by large plants.
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These childhood emotional relationships are further engendered by the integration into the authority pattern that is essential to mass production .
protest
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Move to the Left, encourage mass protest , and they risked being marginalized in a revolutionary confrontation.
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Meanwhile, ramblers are planning a mass protest at the site.
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Parliament is an inadequate means to secure change; there must be mass protest on the streets.
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In these conditions, to encourage mass protest over which they would have no control appeared sheer lunacy.
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He wanted a campaign of direct action and mass protest , not an organisation which would take up individual cases of discrimination.
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There were mass protests in the capital, Manila.
rally
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On Nov. 22 more than 150,000 people in Lomé had held a mass rally in support of the strike.
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There were no mass rallies attended by thousands of the enthusiastic or the curious.
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Opposition demonstration A mass rally organized by 12 opposition groups was held in Lomé, the capital, on Feb. 9.
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It can cover anything from giving a church sermon to holding a mass rally .
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On 22 April there was a mass rally at the Albert Hall where Mosley addressed an audience of 10,000 supporters.
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The mass rally now became a powerful expression of national feeling.
spectrometry
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However, these are insufficient to detract from a very readable and extensive account of modern mass spectrometry .
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Unfortunately the book was completed too soon to reflect the enormous impact of fast atom bombardment mass spectrometry on biology.
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Biomolecular applications are given due prominence, as befits an area where mass spectrometry has made such spectacular progress.
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C is to measure the number of atoms present, or a proportion of them, by mass spectrometry .
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This chapter also includes an introduction to the combination of wet chemistry and mass spectrometry .
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OxA dates were measured by accelerator mass spectrometry , other dates are conventional ages.
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There is no mention of environmentally important techniques as gas chromatography, mass spectrometry , atomic absorption spectrometry, etc.
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This conclusion is supported by an overwhelming number of applications that are almost impossible to solve without the use of mass spectrometry .
support
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Third, there is the growing recognition that Labour could not carry through a radical programme of change without mass support .
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Most of its partisans had focused mainly on military actions, neglecting political efforts necessary to mobilize mass support .
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It saw federal, rather than centralised, structures as the only way to build mass support and ensure accountability and democracy.
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As well as being deficient in mass support , the Republican politicians who numerically dominated the Provisional Government lacked unity amongst themselves.
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Ten percent would threaten him, as Inkatha's militancy is not matched by mass support throughout the country.
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However, the Federation used its local mass support to carry the campaign further.
transit
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Air travel was growing rapidly, while the role of mass transit on the ground was shrinking almost everywhere.
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Given Tucson's low-density development, creating an affordable and effective mass transit system remains a nearly insurmountable challenge.
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In mass transit , private bus companies spend considerable sums to influence legislatures, to get and keep their contracts.
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Cindy was at home with the children and George worked as a driver for the local mass transit authority.
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If there were a comprehensive, integrated mass transit system here, fewer people would drive their own cars.
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Instead of better mass transit , they try to make cars a bit more efficient.
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Also, will more efficient personal transportation detract from incentives to invest in mass transit ?
unemployment
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The implication of the ad was that Labour had produced mass unemployment and the Tories would cure it.
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It was the last upswing before the onset of slump, stagnation and mass unemployment .
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But that knowledge has been buried in the war of words which has accompanied mass unemployment .
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First, the advent of mass unemployment .
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These same governments have been and continue to be the cause of mass unemployment and emigration.
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The impact of the trenches and of mass unemployment in 1930s Stockton gave him decent enough values.
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With mass unemployment , means-tested supplementary benefit is the new mass benefit for the unemployed.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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mass destruction
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a mass grave
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Annie has a degree in mass communications.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Air travel was growing rapidly, while the role of mass transit on the ground was shrinking almost everywhere.
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At the Pavilion in Bournemouth there was a mass walk out of about 200 disgusted people.
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Daily newspapers are now becoming popular, providing the first phase of what will later become known as the mass media.
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Frankish soldiers commit a terrible mass execution of defiant Saxons at Verden.
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In spite of local differences, modern mass society was beginning to appear.
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The mass payback continues to improve with each additional mission.
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Today, just a few years after musical compact discs hit the mass market, the long box is history.
III. verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Large numbers of women massed behind a single women's rights issue.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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According to some reports both countries then began massing troops in the region.
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Most of our archers were massing in the gatehouse, shooting at those trying to force an entry.
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The animals which fought there gave little heed to defence; they massed around them and tried to engulf them.