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mass
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- pronunciation:
- maes
- parts of speech:
- noun, adjective
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noun |
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A mass is an amount of something that has no particular form. When you take a mass of clay and make it into a pot, it means that you take some amount of clay and make it into the form of a pot.
She poured the mass of bread dough onto the breadboard.A big mass of snow slid off the roof.A mass of clouds passed over the moon.- similar words:
- block, cake, chunk, clump, deposit, lump
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body, ceremony, church, cluster, drift, growth, jam, lot, mountain, wealth |
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adjective |
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"Mass" means "having to do with large numbers of people." If there is "mass agreement" on something, it means that a very large number of people agree on it.
Trains and buses provide mass transportation.Television is a form of mass communication.- synonyms:
- popular, public
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