masses

/mas/

US pronunciation

American sound/mas/

masses

Syllables: 1 syllable
Stress: One strong syllable
Vowel: IPA vowel pattern
Ending: Clear final sound

mas - ses -> masses

Myanmar meaning

(n[pl]) ထုထည်များ

Full entry

mass¹ /mæs/ n

၁။ [C] ~ (of sth) (က) ထု။ အထု။ အပုံ။ အစုအပုံ။ a falling mass of rock ❍ There were masses of dark clouds in the sky. ❍ Her face was surrounded by a mass of curls. ❍ She began sifting through the mass of evidence. (ခ) လူထု။ လူစုလူဝေး။ လူအုပ်။ ပရိသတ် တစ်ပုံတစ်ခေါင်း။ တစ်ပုံတစ်ပင်။ တစ်ပုံကြီး။ a mass of spectators ❍ She elbowed her way through the masses of tourists.
၂။ masses [pl] (infml ) အမြောက်အမြား။ အများအပြား။ တောင်ပုံရာပုံ။ တစ်ပုံတစ်ခေါင်း။ There were masses of people at the funeral. ❍ He has masses of homework to do. ❍ I don't need any more paper, thanks—I've got masses already.
၃။ the masses [pl] အများပြည်သူ။ လူထု။ His simple message appealed to the masses.
၄။ [sing] the ~ of … အများစု။ The mass of workers do not want this strike.
၅။ [U] (physics ) ဒြပ်ထု။ See also LAND MASS
adj အများနှင့်ဆိုင်သော။ လူထု။ အစုလိုက်အပြုံလိုက်။ mass education/unemployment ❍ a mass meeting/walk-out/demonstration ❍ a mass murderer ❍ the mass destruction caused by war ❍ mass-circulation newspapers.
v စုသည်။ စုပေါင်းသည်။ စုစည်းသည်။ ပေါင်းရုံးသည်။ clouds massing (on the horizon) ❍ massed armies/choirs ❍ The general massed his troops for a final attack.
❏ be a mass of sth [IDM ] ပြည့်နှက်သည်။ ဖုံးလွှမ်းသည်။ ပွနေသည်။ The garden is a mass of flowers in the summer. ❍ His face was a mass of bruises.
❏ the mass media (also mass communications ) n [pl] လူထုဆက်သွယ်ရေး။ လူထုဆက်သွယ် ရေးနည်းလမ်း။
❏ mass-produce v အလုံးအရင်းဖြင့် ထုတ်လုပ်သည်။ mass-produced cars/fridges.
❏ mass production n [U] အလုံးအရင်းဖြင့် ထုတ်လုပ်ခြင်း။ the mass production of consumer goods.

mass² (also Mass ) /mæs/ n

(က) [U,C] (esp in the Roman Catholic Church) ဘရင်ဂျီဘာသာတွင် ခရစ်တော်နှင့်တပည့်များ နောက်ဆုံးညစာစားပွဲ အထိမ်းအမှတ်အဖြစ် ကျင်းပသောပွဲတော်။ go to/hear Mass ❍ say a mass for their souls.
(ခ) [C] ယင်းပွဲတော်အတွက် တေးဂီတအစီအစဉ်။ Beethoven's Mass in D.

More examples

[mass of] : We need to turn this mass of evidence into a coherent argument.
There’s a mass of competing anti-virus programs you can choose from.
[mass of] : Masses of people attended the meeting.
The vegetables had turned into a sticky mass at the bottom of the pan.
[mass of] : All that was left of the car was a mass of twisted metal.
A mass of dark cloud
[mass of] : A mass of people followed the procession.
[a seething mass] : A seething mass of protesters
It is entertainment that will appeal to the masses.
They go to mass every Sunday.
Bach’s Mass in B Minor

Synonyms

accumulation, gathering, collection, group, crowd, throng, bunch, heap, pile, load, stack, mound, mountain, accumulate, aggregate, amount, area, assemblage, ballasted, band, bank, batch, be alive, be numerous, bear heavily, better part, block, bring together, bringing together, brought together, build, bulk, bunch up, chock, chunk, clean up, cleaned up, close with, clot, coagulation, combination, concentrate, concretion, conglomerated, conglomeration, congregate, consolidate, containerize, core, corpus, curl up, curled up, densen, dimension, draw in, draw together, drawing together, entirety, essence, extent, fetch up, figure, fill up, filled up, flock, focalize, force down, forgather, forgathered, form, frame, freighted, freighting, gang around, gang up, gather, gather like bees, get to meat, get to the meat, gob, goose, goose up, grassroots, great deal, greater part, greatness, hang out, heap together, heap up, hike up, hitch on, hook up with, horde, host, huddle, hunch up, hunk, in bulk, in quantity, in the mass, ingather, ingathering, ironing, jack up, jam-pack, jump up, justle, knot, laid away, lay aside, lay away, lion's share, load up, lot, lump, made the scene, magnitude, main part, majority, make a bundle, make a killing, make the scene, massed, massing, measurement, meet up, mob, move in a crowd, much, number, object, overcrowd, overcrowding, oversupplied, pack 'em in, pack like sardines, packed like sardines, peck, physique, piece, pile it on, pile on, pile up, piling up, pin down, plug into, plurality, pour in, preponderance, press, press close, put aboard, put by, pyramid, quantitative, quantity, raise, ram in, render solid, requiem

Antonyms

dissolution, fraction, handful, individual, insignificance, littleness, one, opening, part, small number, smallness, tininess, unimportance, valley, whole