Mass
English Vietnamese dictionary
mass /mæs/
- danh từ
- (tôn giáo) lễ mét
- (tôn giáo) lễ mét
- danh từ
- khối, đống
- masses of dark clouds gathered in the sky: mây đen ùn ùn chất đống trên bầu trời
- số nhiều, số đông, đa số
- the mass of the nations: đa số các dân tộc
- (vật lý) khối lượng
- critical mass: khối lượng tới hạn
- (the masses) (số nhiều) quần chúng, nhân dân
- the classes and the masses: giai cấp bóc lột và quần chúng nhân dân
- in a mass
- cả đống, cả bọn, cả lũ, toàn thể
- in the mass
- gộp cả toàn thể
- khối, đống
- ngoại động từ
- chất thành đống
- (quân sự) tập trung (quân...)
- nội động từ
- tập trung, tụ hội
Advanced English dictionary
+ noun
1 (sometimes mass) [U, C] (especially in the Roman Catholic Church) a ceremony held in memory of the last meal that Christ had with his DISCIPLES: to go to / hear Mass + a priest celebrating / saying Mass
See also -
2 [C] a piece of music that is written for the prayers, etc. of this ceremony: Bach's Mass in B minor
Thesaurus dictionary
n.
1 pile, heap, mountain, load, stack, mound, bunch, bundle, lot, batch, quantity, hoard, store, collection, accumulation, aggregation, agglomeration, congeries, assortment, miscellany, assemblage, conglomeration:
There was a mass of boulders at the bottom of the cliff.
2 abundance, quantity, profusion, volume, multitude, horde, host, mob, crowd, throng, drove(s), herd(s), swarm(s), legion(s), score(s), number(s), Colloq bunch(es), ton(s), mountain, piles, bags, barrels, oodles, lots, oceans, loads, scads, US mess, slew(s):
A mass of bills awaited my return from a trip abroad. Masses of people greeted us at the airport
3 block, concretion, chunk, lump, hunk, nugget:
A mass of sludge was clogging the valve.
4 majority, best or better or greater part, bulk, body, preponderance, almost all, lion's share:
The great mass of the votes was still uncounted.
5 dimension, size, magnitude, bulk, bigness, massiveness, enormousness, immensity:
The very mass of the elephant made it a hard target to miss.
6 the masses. the common people, the (common) herd, the proletariat, the plebeians, hoi polloi, the lower class(es), the man or woman in the street, Brit the man or woman on the Clapham omnibus, A.
n.
Other, US John Q. Public, John or Jane Doe or Roe:
The taxes became burdensome and the masses rebelled.
v.
7 amass, pile or heap up, gather:
Thunderclouds began to mass over the mountains.
8 aggregate, accumulate, collect, assemble, congregate, meet, get or come together, gather, forgather or foregather, throng, convene, flock together, rally, group, cluster, marshal, muster, mobilize:
Thousands of people massed in front of the embassy. The massed bands made a tremendous noise.
Collocation dictionary
1 large amount/number of sth
ADJ.
enormous, great, huge, large, vast | broad
Their policies appeal to the broad mass of the population.
| formless, shapeless
When I washed the jumper, it just turned into a shapeless mass.
| compact, dense, solid | chaotic
a chaotic mass of ideas
| tangled
a tangled mass of hair
PREP.
~ of
a dense mass of smoke
| ~es of
(informal) There were masses of people at the concert.
2 Mass: Christian ceremony
ADJ.
requiem, Sunday
VERB + MASS
attend, go to, hear
She never failed to attend Sunday Mass.
| celebrate, offer, say
The local priest celebrates Mass in the village church.
PREP.
~ for
a requiem Mass for the sailors who drowned
Concise English dictionary
masses|massed|massingmæs
noun
+the property of a body that causes it to have weight in a gravitational field
+(often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent
+an ill-structured collection of similar things (objects or people)
+(Roman Catholic Church and Protestant Churches) the celebration of the Eucharist
+a body of matter without definite shape
+the common people generally
+the property of something that is great in magnitude
+a musical setting for a Mass
+a sequence of prayers constituting the Christian Eucharistic rite
verb
+join together into a mass or collect or form a mass
adj.
+gathered or tending to gather into a mass or whole
