| 单词 | mass |
| 释义 | mass (mæs ) Word forms: masses , massing , massed 1. singular noun B2 A mass of things is a large number of them grouped together. On his desk is a mass of books and papers. [+ of] Synonyms: lot, collection, load [informal], combination 2. singular noun B2 A mass of something is a large amount of it. She had a mass of auburn hair. [+ of] 3. quantifier B2 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. 4. adjective [ADJECTIVE noun] Mass is used to describe something which involves or affects a very large number of people. ...ideas on combating mass unemployment. All the lights went off, and mass hysteria broke out. ...weapons of mass destruction. ...the harm caused by mass tourism. Synonyms: large-scale, general, popular, widespread 5. countable noun 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. [+ of] ...the strong temperature difference between the two masses of air. Synonyms: piece, block, lump, chunk 6. plural noun 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. This issue has aroused much resentment among the masses. 7. singular noun 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. [+ of] Schools allowed the mass of children to leave school at 16 with poor qualifications. Synonyms: majority, body, bulk, best part 8. countable noun [NOUN of noun] B2 A mass of people is a large crowd of them. ...masses of excited people clogged the streets. ...a mass of grinning teenage faces. Synonyms: crowd, group, body, pack 9. verb 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. [VERB] The clouds massed, whipped up by the wind. [VERB] The General was massing his troops for a counterattack. [VERB noun] Synonyms: gather, assemble, accumulate, collect 10. singular noun If you say that something is a mass of things, you mean that it is covered with them or full of them. His body was a mass of sores. In the spring, the meadow is a mass of daffodils. [+ of] 11. variable noun 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. Synonyms: size, matter, weight, extent 12. variable noun 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. 13. countable noun A Mass is a piece of music which uses the prayers from the Christian ceremony of Mass as the words that are sung. 14. See also massed, critical mass, land mass Collocations: muscle mass Regular exercise increases your muscle mass. The Sun (2009) For a long time anybody who wanted to put on muscle mass was recommended to eat lots of meat. Shape Your Body, Shape Your Life (1987) It can class people as obese when they have low body fat but high muscle mass. Times, Sunday Times (2008) Now, a force strength or a particle mass often needed tuning to within the same narrow limits for many different reasons at once. The Times Literary Supplement In these, gluons that bind quarks together confer most of the particle mass. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Physicists in making this choice decided that properties other than particle mass should control their classification. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The immense variety of the universes explains how the observed force strengths and particle masses manage to be fine-tuned to life's stringent requirements. The Times Literary Supplement Given very large deviations from the force strengths and particle masses we observe, heaven knows whether life would be possible. The Times Literary Supplement Brutalist concrete buildings may have the most potential for a sensible makeover - the sheer mass of concrete can insulate both from winter cold and excessive summer heat. Times, Sunday Times The sheer mass of digital evidence accumulated in a modern-day friendship or relationship appears to discourage investigators from thorough searches. Times, Sunday Times It looks impressive because of the sheer mass of the material, but when you break it down and look at it point by point, it really comes to pieces. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Its core has since slowly cooled into a solid mass of iron and nickel. Times,Sunday Times Where birch trees grow close together, in woods or small clumps, they are a solid mass of rich yellow. Times, Sunday Times The artificial bristles are so densely packed that it feels like a solid mass — a sort of little velvet pod, rather than a brush in the traditional sense. Times, Sunday Times Signs of efficacy had only been shown through intratumoral injections on solid mass tumors of the head and neck. The Scientist Previously, sculpture had always been a solid mass of stone, bronze or wood that the viewer had to walk around. Times, Sunday Times We are, each and every one of us, a tangled mass of motives: hope and fear, faith and doubt, simplicity and duplicity, honesty and falsity, openness and guile. Christianity Today Here's a way of thinking that allows you to get around that slippery, tangled mass that ministry can become, and find the freedom and the results you always dreamed of. Christianity Today It has a bushy habit, with a tangled mass of branches, spreading to 2.5m across and growing up to 4m high. The Sun The tangled mass dropped onto some marshy land, which was freely sprinkled with debris, pieces of which curio hunters took away with evident glee. Times, Sunday Times It's one of those schadenfreude moments: a tangled mass of brollies and their shrieking owners. Times, Sunday Times These homes will have high thermal mass, and will be heated with a minimum of technology, super-insulated, naturally ventilated in summer and actively ventilated with heat recovery in winter. Times, Sunday Times Such fluctuating temperatures occur because of the low thermal mass of these materials — they have a much lower ability to absorb and release heat than traditional stone or concrete. Times, Sunday Times At night the thermal mass of the earth surrounding the rooms radiates heat back into the building. Times, Sunday Times Lightweight, slimline electric radiators with little thermal mass and no fan are likely to be the most efficient. Times, Sunday Times Masonry building materials with high thermal mass are very valuable for retaining the cool temperatures of night throughout the day. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The letters are a particularly precious historical discovery because they contain echoes of a vast mass of lost material. Times, Sunday Times His mind began seeing connections, joining up the dots of world history, carving a narrative through the vast mass of knowledge. Times, Sunday Times However, he did not venture to apply this vast mass of property to the general purposes of the government. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 During these migrations the plains and hillsides on every side were thickly covered by one vast mass of springbok, packed like sheep in a fold. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He also left materials for a monograph on luminous beetles, including fireflies and glowworms, and a vast mass of miscellaneous notes of a scientific character. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Translations: Chinese: 大量, 人数众多的, 聚集, 弥撒 Japanese: 大量 amount, 多数の, 集結させる/集結する, ミサ |
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