Collocation Dictionary

Try "happy" or "love"

Searching for...

No matching words found

Try a different search term or browse the dictionary

Common collocations with mass in American Collocation

mass noun

US /mæs/

when many people are close together and moving about

heaving
seething
teeming

The crowd was now a sweating, seething mass of bodies pressing up against the stage.

when people or things are very similar

broad
undifferentiated

This idea would be rejected by the broad mass of people.

It is important not to treat the sales force as an undifferentiated mass.

confused or vague

amorphous
confused
shapeless
swirling
tangled

Polymers consist of a tangled mass of very long molecules in which the atoms are joined by strong covalent bonds.

stretching over a wide area

sprawling

They looked down at the sprawling mass of the city below them.

solid

dense
solid

A blood clot is a solid mass of blood.

very large

great
huge
large
vast

Though the greatest mass of nerve cells is collected in the brain, the nervous system links all parts of the body.

of people in general

humanity
mankind
people
the population

I could see no individuals, just a mass of humanity following orders.

of particular classes

the peasantry
the peasants
the proletariat
the workers

The success of the revolution depended on the working class being able to win the mass of the peasantry.

of information

evidence
information
material

The mass of material to be considered is overwhelming.

when many people are close together and moving about

heaving
seething
teeming

The crowd was now a sweating, seething mass of bodies pressing up against the stage.

when people or things are very similar

broad
undifferentiated

This idea would be rejected by the broad mass of people.

It is important not to treat the sales force as an undifferentiated mass.

confused or vague

amorphous
confused
shapeless
swirling
tangled

Polymers consist of a tangled mass of very long molecules in which the atoms are joined by strong covalent bonds.

stretching over a wide area

sprawling

They looked down at the sprawling mass of the city below them.

solid

dense
solid

A blood clot is a solid mass of blood.

very large

great
huge
large
vast

Though the greatest mass of nerve cells is collected in the brain, the nervous system links all parts of the body.