名詞 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
   同義詞：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
   同義詞：multitude, masses, hoi polloi, people, the great unwashed
7. the property of something that is great in magnitude
   同義詞：bulk, volume
8. a musical setting for a Mass
9. a sequence of prayers constituting the Christian Eucharistic rite

動詞 mass:

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

形容詞 mass:

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

1. A liter of gas has less mass than a liter of water.
   一公升氣體的質(zhì)量少于一公升水的質(zhì)量。
2. Crowds massed along the road where the king would pass.
   群眾聚集在國王要經(jīng)過的街道旁。
3. A great mass of rock had fallen from the cliff and now blocked the road.
   一大堆巖石從懸崖上掉了下來，堵塞了道路。

mass

n.（名詞）
A unified body of matter with no specific shape:
團(tuán)，塊，堆：聚成一體的沒有具體形狀的物質(zhì)：
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:
集結(jié)，集合：把沒有具體形狀或數(shù)量的整體的各個組成部分看成一個整體：
例句：
.Take mankind in mass, and for the most part, they seem a mob of unnecessary duplicates.(Herman Melville)
.整體而論，大部分的人類不過是一群烏合之眾.(赫爾曼·梅爾維爾)

A large but nonspecific amount or number:
大量：大而不具體的數(shù)量：
例句：
a mass of bruises.
一大片的青腫

The principal part; the majority:
主體，主要部分，大多數(shù)：
例句：
the mass of the continent.
內(nèi)容的主要部分

The physical volume or bulk of a solid body.
體積：物質(zhì)體積或一件固體的體積
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.
縮寫 m【物理學(xué)】 質(zhì)量：物體內(nèi)所包含的物質(zhì)的量。物體質(zhì)量不受重力影響，因此與物體的重量不同，但是與其成比例
An area of unified light, shade, or color in a painting.
同色的擴(kuò)散形狀：一幅畫上統(tǒng)一的光、影或顏色的一大片
Pharmacology A thick, pasty mixture containing drugs from which pills are formed.
【藥理學(xué)】 煉丸劑：用以制作丸劑的含有藥物的漿狀混合物
masses The body of common people or people of low socioeconomic status. Used withthe.
masses 大眾，庶民：平民或社會經(jīng)濟(jì)地位上低下者。常與the 連用
v.tr.intr.（及物動詞和不及物動詞）
massed,mass.ing,mass.es
To gather or be gathered into a mass.
（被）聚成團(tuán)、塊或堆
adj.（形容詞）
Of, relating to, characteristic of, directed at, or attended by a large number of people:
以大眾為對象的：大眾的，以大眾為特征的，指向大眾的或大眾參與的：
例句：
mass education; mass communication.
大眾教育；大眾傳播

Done or carried out on a large scale:
大規(guī)模進(jìn)行（完成）的：
例句：
mass production.
大規(guī)模生產(chǎn)

Total; complete:
完整的，全部的；完全的：
例句：
The mass result is impressive.
最終結(jié)果讓人印象至深

來源：
Middle English masse
中古英語 masse
from Old French
源自 古法語
from Latin massa
源自 拉丁語 massa
from Greek maza * see mag-
源自 希臘語 maza *參見 mag-