mass

名词 mass:

1. the property of a body that causes it to have weight in a gravitational field
2. (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent
   同义词：batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mess, mickle, mint, muckle, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad, whole lot, whole slew
3. an ill-structured collection of similar things (objects or people)
4. (Roman Catholic Church and Protestant Churches) the celebration of the Eucharist
5. a body of matter without definite shape
6. the common people generally
   同义词：multitude, masses, hoi polloi, people, the great unwashed
7. the property of something that is great in magnitude
   同义词：bulk, volume
8. a musical setting for a Mass
9. a sequence of prayers constituting the Christian Eucharistic rite

动词 mass:

1. join together into a mass or collect or form a mass

形容词 mass:

1. gathered or tending to gather into a mass or whole
   同义词：aggregate, aggregated, aggregative

1. A liter of gas has less mass than a liter of water.
   一公升气体的质量少于一公升水的质量。
2. Crowds massed along the road where the king would pass.
   群众聚集在国王要经过的街道旁。
3. A great mass of rock had fallen from the cliff and now blocked the road.
   一大堆岩石从悬崖上掉了下来，堵塞了道路。

mass

n.（名词）
A unified body of matter with no specific shape:
团，块，堆：聚成一体的没有具体形状的物质：
例句：
a mass of clay.
一堆泥土

A grouping of individual parts or elements that compose a unified body of unspecified size or quantity:
集结，集合：把没有具体形状或数量的整体的各个组成部分看成一个整体：
例句：
.Take mankind in mass, and for the most part, they seem a mob of unnecessary duplicates.(Herman Melville)
.整体而论，大部分的人类不过是一群乌合之众.(赫尔曼·梅尔维尔)

A large but nonspecific amount or number:
大量：大而不具体的数量：
例句：
a mass of bruises.
一大片的青肿

The principal part; the majority:
主体，主要部分，大多数：
例句：
the mass of the continent.
内容的主要部分

The physical volume or bulk of a solid body.
体积：物质体积或一件固体的体积
Abbr. mPhysics The measure of the quantity of matter that a body or an object contains. The mass of the body is not dependent on gravity and therefore is different from but proportional to its weight.
缩写 m【物理学】 质量：物体内所包含的物质的量。物体质量不受重力影响，因此与物体的重量不同，但是与其成比例
An area of unified light, shade, or color in a painting.
同色的扩散形状：一幅画上统一的光、影或颜色的一大片
Pharmacology A thick, pasty mixture containing drugs from which pills are formed.
【药理学】 炼丸剂：用以制作丸剂的含有药物的浆状混合物
masses The body of common people or people of low socioeconomic status. Used withthe.
masses 大众，庶民：平民或社会经济地位上低下者。常与the 连用
v.tr.intr.（及物动词和不及物动词）
massed,mass.ing,mass.es
To gather or be gathered into a mass.
（被）聚成团、块或堆
adj.（形容词）
Of, relating to, characteristic of, directed at, or attended by a large number of people:
以大众为对象的：大众的，以大众为特征的，指向大众的或大众参与的：
例句：
mass education; mass communication.
大众教育；大众传播

Done or carried out on a large scale:
大规模进行（完成）的：
例句：
mass production.
大规模生产

Total; complete:
完整的，全部的；完全的：
例句：
The mass result is impressive.
最终结果让人印象至深

来源：
Middle English masse
中古英语 masse
from Old French
源自 古法语
from Latin massa
源自 拉丁语 massa
from Greek maza * see mag-
源自 希腊语 maza *参见 mag-