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How to pronounce mass in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms hoi polloi, masses, multitude, people, the great unwashed
Type of group, grouping
Has types laity, following, followers, audience, temporalty


separate the warriors from the mass.
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Synonyms bulk, volume
Type of magnitude
Has types turnover, dollar volume


he received a mass of correspondence.
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Synonyms 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
Type of large indefinite quantity, large indefinite amount
Has types deluge, torrent, haymow, flood, inundation
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Synonyms aggregate, aggregated, aggregative
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Type of body
Has types coprolith, faecalith, drift, stercolith, mat, mush, pulp, fecalith


a huge ice mass.
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Type of church music, religious music
Has types requiem
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Type of accumulation, assemblage, aggregation, collection
Has types shock, logjam
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Type of prayer
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Type of crowd together, crowd
Has types press


Crowds were massing outside the palace.
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Type of religious ceremony, religious ritual
Has types requiem, high mass, low mass
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Type of physical property, fundamental measure, fundamental quantity
Has types critical mass, body, molecular weight, biomass, mass energy, rest mass, mass deficiency, mass defect, atomic weight, atomic mass, relative atomic mass, relative molecular mass, relativistic mass, inertial mass, gravitational mass, bulk

Examples of mass

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Women on oral contraceptives tend to increase fat and decrease lean muscle mass.
From the latimes.com
Such workers seek urban areas with vital, dense downtowns and good mass transit.
From the freep.com
For almost half a century, TV was the lead medium for most mass-marketed brands.
From the forbes.com
The critical mass also means companies have little choice but to cater to women.
From the businessweek.com
He then found a company in China to help create a prototype and mass produce it.
From the dailyherald.com
It's a net-enabled tablet that is truly affordable for a mass consumer audience.
From the cnn.com
Last year there was a mass exodus from financial stocks, and not just the banks.
From the time.com
As losses mount and order books shrink, mass layoffs are necessary for survival.
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This is one of the most accurate measurements of the mass of a neutrino to date.
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More examples
  • The property of a body that causes it to have weight in a gravitational field
  • Aggregate: 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"
  • Join together into a mass or collect or form a mass; "Crowds were massing outside the palace"
  • Batch: (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent; "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"
  • An ill-structured collection of similar things (objects or people)
  • (Roman Catholic Church and Protestant Churches) the celebration of the Eucharist
  • In physics, mass is a property of a physical body. It is a measure of an object's resistance to acceleration (a change in its state of motion) when a force is applied. It also determines the strength of its mutual gravitational attraction to other bodies. In the theory of relativity a related concept is the massu2013energy content of a system. The SI unit of mass is the kilogram (kg).
  • In physics, mass is a property of a physical body. It is a measure of an object's resistance to acceleration (a change in its state of motion) when a force is applied. It also determines the strength of its mutual gravitational attraction to other bodies. In the theory of relativity a related concept is the massu2013energy content of a system. The SI unit of mass is the kilogram (kg).
  • The ''''' (pronounced and the Bavarian form of the female noun ', i. e. "mass", though commonly misinterpreted as the neuter noun (with a long vowel) '', translating to "measure") is a term used in German-speaking countries for a unit of volume, now typically used for measuring beer. ...