mass
1. the property of a body that causes it to have weight in a gravitational field (Freq. 35)
• Hypernyms:
fundamental quantity, fundamental measure, physical property
• Hyponyms:
body, biomass, critical mass, rest mass, relativistic mass,
bulk, gravitational mass, inertial mass, atomic mass, atomic weight, relative atomic mass,
mass energy, molecular weight, relative molecular mass, mass defect, mass deficiency
2. (often followed by 'of') a large number or amount or extent (Freq. 14)
- a batch of letters
- a deal of trouble
- a lot of money
- he made a mint on the stock market
- see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos
- it must have cost plenty
- a slew of journalists
- a wad of money
• Syn:
batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal,
hatful, heap, lot, mess, mickle, mint,
mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty,
pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate,
stack, tidy sum, wad
• Derivationally related forms:
wad (for: wad), plenteous (for: plenty), pile (for: pile), heap (for: heap)
• Hypernyms:
large indefinite quantity, large indefinite amount
• Hyponyms:
flood, inundation, deluge, torrent, haymow
3. an ill-structured collection of similar things (objects or people) (Freq. 12)
• Hypernyms:
collection, aggregation, accumulation, assemblage
• Hyponyms:
logjam, shock
4. a body of matter without definite shape (Freq. 6)
- a huge ice mass
• Hypernyms:
body
• Hyponyms:
coprolith, fecalith, faecalith, stercolith, drift,
mat, pulp, mush
5. the common people generally (Freq. 4)
- separate the warriors from the mass
- power to the people
• Syn:
multitude, masses, hoi polloi, people, the great unwashed
• Derivationally related forms:
people (for: people)
• Hypernyms:
group, grouping
• Hyponyms:
laity, temporalty, audience, following, followers
6. the property of something that is great in magnitude (Freq. 3)
- it is cheaper to buy it in bulk
- he received a mass of correspondence
- the volume of exports
• Syn:
bulk, volume
• Derivationally related forms:
voluminous (for: volume), bulky (for: bulk)
• Hypernyms:
magnitude
• Hyponyms:
dollar volume, turnover
join together into a mass or collect or form a mass (Freq. 3)
- Crowds were massing outside the palace
• Hypernyms:
crowd, crowd together
• Hyponyms:
press
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s
- Somebody ----s PP
- The crowds mass in the streets
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
• Syn:
aggregate, aggregated, aggregative
• Similar to:
collective
• Derivationally related forms:
aggregate (for: aggregative), aggregate (for: aggregate)
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