massed
成群结队,成群结队的,成群的,大量的
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- : a body of coherent matter, usually of indefinite shape and often of considerable size: a mass of dough.
- : Medicine/Medical, Pathology. an abnormal lump in the body, often in the form of a cyst or tumor: The mass they removed was alarmingly large, but the great news is that it was benign.
- : a collection of incoherent particles, parts, or objects regarded as forming one body: a mass of sand.
- : aggregate; whole: People, in the mass, mean well.
- : a considerable assemblage, number, or quantity: a mass of errors; a mass of troops.
- : bulk, size, expanse, or massiveness: towers of great mass and strength.
- : Fine Arts. Painting.an expanse of color or tone that defines form or shape in general outline rather than in detail.a shape or three-dimensional volume that has or gives the illusion of having weight, density, and bulk.
- : the main body, bulk, or greater part of anything: the great mass of American films.
- : Physics. the quantity of matter as determined from its weight or from Newton's second law of motion. Abbreviation: mCompare weight, relativistic mass, rest mass.
- : Pharmacology. a preparation of thick, pasty consistency, from which pills are made.
- : the masses, the ordinary or common people as a whole; the working classes or the lower social classes.
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- : pertaining to, involving, or affecting a large number of people: mass unemployment; mass migrations.affecting a number of people, but more than two and typically a large number: mass murder;a mass shooting.
- : participated in or performed by a large number of people, especially together in a group: mass demonstrations; mass suicide.
- : pertaining to, involving, or characteristic of the mass of the people: the mass mind; a movie designed to appeal to a mass audience.
- : reaching or designed to reach a large number of people: television, newspapers, and other means of mass communication.
- : done on a large scale or in large quantities: mass destruction.
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- : to come together in or form a mass or masses: The clouds are massing in the west.
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- : to gather into or dispose in a mass or masses; assemble: The houses are massed in blocks.
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A draft of the state’s vaccination plan says local health districts will set up mass vaccination clinics.
Twitter is a mass-reality-distortion field for liberals and reporters.
In the second, electric power made mass production possible.
In 2016, scientists linked a mass extinction of marine life 550 million years ago with reversals that weakened the magnetic field.
So, this is going to be grocery stores, drug stores, convenience stores, mass-merchant stores, etc.
But what is it like with no Penelope Cruz pouting in sheer red satin, without the massed paparazzi, and screaming publicists?
Once you raised it, a massed army was wasting away, whether it fought or not, or whether it advanced, retreated, or stood still.
Over the past several days, Kurdish Peshmerga forces have massed in the thousands around the northern approaches to Zumar.
The Kremlin also announced it was starting to pull back an estimated 40,000 troops massed on the border.
On the leaked recording, the operative said that there are “300 military units” massed near Donetsk and “marines are arriving.”
Massed on the plateau above the mule-path, the whole population of the village stood to watch them down the steep descent.
David Arden, as he promised, had dictated to him in outline the awful case he had massed against his client.
For this purpose he obtained permission to hold a big camp of instruction, where all the divisions of his corps were massed.
All the divisions could thus be promptly massed on the English whether they should select the higher or the lower line of advance.
An essay is well massed if the parts are so arranged that things of importance will arrest the attention.