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MASSES

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The common people generally

Example:

power to the people

Synonyms:

hoi polloi; mass; masses; multitude; people; the great unwashed

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("masses" is a kind of...):

group; grouping (any number of entities (members) considered as a unit)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "masses"):

laity; temporalty (in Christianity, members of a religious community that do not have the priestly responsibilities of ordained clergy)

audience (the part of the general public interested in a source of information or entertainment)

followers; following (a group of followers or enthusiasts)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Present simple (third person singular) of the verb mass

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 Context examples: 

It is usually manifested with bilateral multinodular ovarian masses.

(Leuteoma of Pregnancy, NCI Thesaurus)

The lateral of a pair of small oval masses that protrude slightly from the posteroinferior aspect of the thalamus; commonly considered a part of the metathalamus.

(External Geniculate Body, NCI Thesaurus)

The amounts can be expressed as moles, masses, volumes, or parts.

(Concentration, NCI Thesaurus)

They were always masses of leaves and shrub-like branches shot through with hot sunshine.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Using Spitzer data, the team precisely measured the sizes of the seven planets and developed first estimates of the masses of six of them, allowing their density to be estimated.

(NASA Telescope Reveals Largest Batch of Earth-Size, Habitable-Zone Planets Around Single Star, NASA)

This domain captures information of any palpable masses examined during the experimental phase.

(Palpable Masses Domain, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

Grossly, it is characterized by the presence of intraductal nodular masses.

(Pancreatic Intraductal Tubulopapillary Neoplasm, NCI Thesaurus)

Masses of ghost cells are present in the cellular aggregates.

(Pilomatrical Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

We, however, lay to until the morning, fearing to encounter in the dark those large loose masses which float about after the breaking up of the ice.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

The majority of cases develop in the subcutaneous tissues usually in the lower extremities and present as slow growing masses.

(Pleomorphic Hyalinizing Angiectatic Tumor of Soft Parts, NCI Thesaurus)