Masses

Definition

mass 1 /mæs/ n ၁။ [C] ~ (of sth) (က) ထု။ အထု။ အပံု။ အစုအပံု။ 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။ လူစုလူေဝး။ လူအုပ္။ ပရိသတ္ တစ္ပံုတစ္ေခါင္း။ တစ္ပံုတစ္ပင္။ တစ္ပံုႀကီး။ a mass of spectators ❍ She elbowed her way through the masses of tourists. ၂။ masses [pl] ( infml ) အေျမာက္အျမား။ အမ်ားအျပား။ ေတာင္ပံုရာပံု။ တစ္ပံုတစ္ေခါင္း။ 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] အမ်ားျပည္သူ။ လူထု။ His simple message appealed to the masses. ၄။ [sing] the ~ of … အမ်ားစု။ The mass of workers do not want this strike. ၅။ [U] ( physics ) ျဒပ္ထု။ See also LAND MASS adj အမ်ားႏွင့္ဆိုင္ေသာ။ လူထု။ အစုလိုက္အၿပံဳလိုက္။ mass education/unemployment ❍ a mass meeting/walk-out/demonstration ❍ a mass murderer ❍ the mass destruction caused by war ❍ mass-circulation newspapers. v စုသည္။ စုေပါင္းသည္။ စုစည္းသည္။ ေပါင္း႐ံုးသည္။ clouds massing (on the horizon) ❍ massed armies/choirs ❍ The general massed his troops for a final attack. ❏ be a mass of sth [ IDM ] ျပည့္ႏွက္သည္။ ဖံုးလႊမ္းသည္။ ပြေနသည္။ 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] လူထုဆက္သြယ္ေရး။ လူထုဆက္သြယ္ ေရးနည္းလမ္း။ ❏ mass-produce v အလံုးအရင္းျဖင့္ ထုတ္လုပ္သည္။ mass-produced cars/fridges. ❏ mass production n [U] အလံုးအရင္းျဖင့္ ထုတ္လုပ္ျခင္း။ the mass production of consumer goods. mass 2 (also Mass ) /mæs/ n (က) [U,C] (esp in the Roman Catholic Church) ဘရင္ဂ်ီဘာသာတြင္ ခရစ္ေတာ္ႏွင့္တပည့္မ်ား ေနာက္ဆံုးညစာစားပြဲ အထိမ္းအမွတ္အျဖစ္ က်င္းပေသာပြဲေတာ္။ go to/hear Mass ❍ say a mass for their souls. (ခ) [C] ယင္းပြဲေတာ္အတြက္ ေတးဂီတအစီအစဥ္။ Beethoven's Mass in D.

Examples

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