transcription, транскрипция: [ mæs ]
( masses, massing, massed)
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
1.
A mass of things is a large number of them grouped together.
On his desk is a mass of books and papers.
N-SING : N of n
2.
A mass of something is a large amount of it.
She had a mass of auburn hair.
N-SING : N of n
3.
Masses of something means a great deal of it. ( INFORMAL )
There’s masses of work for her to do...
It has masses of flowers each year.
QUANT : QUANT of n-uncount / pl-n
4.
Mass is used to describe something which involves or affects a very large number of people.
...ideas on combating mass unemployment...
...weapons of mass destruction.
ADJ : ADJ n
5.
A mass of a solid substance, a liquid, or a gas is an amount of it, especially a large amount which has no definite shape.
...before it cools and sets into a solid mass...
The fourteenth century cathedral was reduced to a mass of rubble.
N-COUNT : oft N of n
6.
If you talk about the masses , you mean the ordinary people in society, in contrast to the leaders or the highly educated people.
His music is commercial. It is aimed at the masses...
N-PLURAL : the N
7.
The mass of people are most of the people in a country, society, or group.
The 1939-45 world war involved the mass of the population...
= bulk, majority
N-SING : the N of n
8.
When people or things mass , or when you mass them, they gather together into a large crowd or group.
Shortly after the workers went on strike, police began to mass at the shipyard...
The General was massing his troops for a counterattack.
= gather
VERB : V , V n
9.
If you say that something is a mass of things, you mean that it is covered with them or full of them.
In the spring, the meadow is a mass of daffodils.
N-SING : N of n
10.
In physics, the mass of an object is the amount of physical matter that it has. ( TECHNICAL )
Astronomers know that Pluto and Triton have nearly the same size, mass, and density.
N-VAR
11.
Mass is a Christian church ceremony, especially in a Roman Catholic or Orthodox church, during which people eat bread and drink wine in order to remember the last meal of Jesus Christ.
She attended a convent school and went to Mass each day.
N-VAR
12.
see also massed , critical mass , land mass