| lump | | |
| n. (group) | 1. ball, chunk, clod, clump, glob, lump | a compact mass.; "a ball of mud caught him on the shoulder" |
| ~ clot, coagulum | a lump of material formed from the content of a liquid. |
| ~ agglomeration | a jumbled collection or mass. |
| ~ gob | a lump of slimy stuff.; "a gob of phlegm" |
| ~ clew | a ball of yarn or cord or thread. |
| n. (state) | 2. lump, puffiness, swelling | an abnormal protuberance or localized enlargement. |
| ~ spermatocele | a swelling on the epididymis or the testis; usually contains spermatozoa. |
| ~ symptom | (medicine) any sensation or change in bodily function that is experienced by a patient and is associated with a particular disease. |
| ~ enlargement | the state of being enlarged. |
| ~ bloat | swelling of the rumen or intestinal tract of domestic animals caused by excessive gas. |
| ~ bunion | a painful swelling of the bursa of the first joint of the big toe. |
| ~ dropsy, edema, hydrops, oedema | swelling from excessive accumulation of watery fluid in cells, tissues, or serous cavities. |
| ~ haematocele, haematocoele, hematocele, hematocoele | swelling caused by blood collecting in a body cavity (especially a swelling of the membrane covering the testis). |
| ~ intumescence, intumescency | swelling up with blood or other fluids (as with congestion). |
| ~ iridoncus | swelling of the iris of the eye. |
| ~ lymphogranuloma | swelling of a lymph node. |
| ~ oscheocele, oscheocoele | swelling of the scrotum. |
| ~ tumidity, tumidness | slight swelling of an organ or part. |
| n. (person) | 3. clod, gawk, goon, lout, lubber, lummox, lump, oaf, stumblebum | an awkward stupid person. |
| ~ clumsy person | a person with poor motor coordination. |
| n. (object) | 4. hunk, lump | a large piece of something without definite shape.; "a hunk of bread"; "a lump of coal" |
| ~ nodule | (mineralogy) a small rounded lump of mineral substance (usually harder than the surrounding rock or sediment). |
| ~ nugget | a solid lump of a precious metal (especially gold) as found in the earth. |
| ~ part, piece | a portion of a natural object.; "they analyzed the river into three parts"; "he needed a piece of granite" |
| v. (contact) | 5. chunk, lump | put together indiscriminately.; "lump together all the applicants" |
| ~ accumulate, collect, compile, amass, hoard, roll up, pile up | get or gather together.; "I am accumulating evidence for the man's unfaithfulness to his wife"; "She is amassing a lot of data for her thesis"; "She rolled up a small fortune" |
| v. (cognition) | 6. chunk, collocate, lump | group or chunk together in a certain order or place side by side. |
| ~ group | arrange into a group or groups.; "Can you group these shapes together?" |
| clump | | |
| n. (group) | 1. bunch, clump, cluster, clustering | a grouping of a number of similar things.; "a bunch of trees"; "a cluster of admirers" |
| ~ agglomeration | a jumbled collection or mass. |
| ~ knot | a tight cluster of people or things.; "a small knot of women listened to his sermon"; "the bird had a knot of feathers forming a crest" |
| ~ swad | a bunch.; "a thick swad of plants" |
| ~ tuft, tussock | a bunch of hair or feathers or growing grass. |
| ~ northern cross | a cluster of 5 bright stars forming a cross in the constellation Cygnus. |
| ~ omega centauri | a global cluster in the constellation Centaurus. |
| ~ pleiades | a star cluster in the constellation Taurus. |
| n. (event) | 2. clump, clunk, thud, thump, thumping | a heavy dull sound (as made by impact of heavy objects). |
| ~ sound | the sudden occurrence of an audible event.; "the sound awakened them" |
| v. (perception) | 3. clop, clump, clunk, plunk | make or move along with a sound as of a horse's hooves striking the ground. |
| ~ sound, go | make a certain noise or sound.; "She went `Mmmmm'"; "The gun went `bang'" |
| v. (motion) | 4. clump, cluster, constellate, flock | come together as in a cluster or flock.; "The poets constellate in this town every summer" |
| ~ huddle, huddle together | crowd or draw together.; "let's huddle together--it's cold!" |
| ~ bunch, bunch together, bunch up | form into a bunch.; "The frightened children bunched together in the corner of the classroom" |
| ~ foregather, forgather, assemble, gather, meet | collect in one place.; "We assembled in the church basement"; "Let's gather in the dining room" |
| v. (motion) | 5. clomp, clump | walk clumsily. |
| ~ walk | use one's feet to advance; advance by steps.; "Walk, don't run!"; "We walked instead of driving"; "She walks with a slight limp"; "The patient cannot walk yet"; "Walk over to the cabinet" |
| v. (contact) | 6. bunch, bunch up, bundle, clump, cluster | gather or cause to gather into a cluster.; "She bunched her fingers into a fist" |
| ~ form | assume a form or shape.; "the water formed little beads" |
| ~ agglomerate | form into one cluster. |
| cyst | | |
| n. (state) | 1. cyst | a closed sac that develops abnormally in some body structure. |
| ~ dermoid cyst | a cystic tumor (usually benign) with a wall lined with epithelium and a cavity containing other material. |
| ~ galactocele | a cystic tumor containing milk or a milky substance (especially in the mammary glands). |
| ~ blood cyst, hematocyst, hemorrhagic cyst | a cyst containing blood. |
| ~ hydatid | cyst filled with liquid; forms as a result of infestation by tapeworm larvae (as in echinococcosis). |
| ~ nabothian cyst, nabothian follicle | a cyst that forms in the nabothian glands of the uterine cervix. |
| ~ ovarian cyst | a cystic tumor (usually benign) of the ovary. |
| ~ ranula | a cyst on the underside of the tongue. |
| ~ pilar cyst, sebaceous cyst, steatocystoma, wen | a common cyst of the skin; filled with fatty matter (sebum) that is secreted by a sebaceous gland that has been blocked. |
| ~ pathology | any deviation from a healthy or normal condition. |
| n. (body) | 2. cyst, vesicle | a small anatomically normal sac or bladderlike structure (especially one containing fluid). |
| ~ dacryocyst, lacrimal sac, tear sac | either of the two dilated ends of the lacrimal ducts at the nasal ends of the eyes that fill with tears secreted by the lacrimal glands. |
| ~ dictyosome, golgi apparatus, golgi body, golgi complex | a netlike structure in the cytoplasm of animal cells (especially in those cells that produce secretions). |
| ~ sac | a structure resembling a bag in an animal. |
| ~ bleb, bulla, blister | (pathology) an elevation of the skin filled with serous fluid. |
| ~ follicle | any small spherical group of cells containing a cavity. |
| ~ liposome | an artificially made microscopic vesicle into which nucleic acids can be packaged; used in molecular biology as a transducing vector. |
| lump | | |
| mass | | |
| n. (attribute) | 1. mass | the property of a body that causes it to have weight in a gravitational field. |
| ~ physical property | any property used to characterize matter and energy and their interactions. |
| ~ body | the main mass of a thing. |
| ~ biomass | the total mass of living matter in a given unit area. |
| ~ critical mass | the minimum mass of fissionable material that can sustain a chain reaction. |
| ~ rest mass | (physics) the mass of a body as measured when the body is at rest relative to an observer, an inherent property of the body. |
| ~ relativistic mass | (physics) the mass of a body in motion relative to the observer: it is equal to the rest mass multiplied by a factor that is greater than 1 and that increases as the magnitude of the velocity increases. |
| ~ bulk | the property possessed by a large mass. |
| ~ gravitational mass | (physics) the mass of a body as measured by its gravitational attraction for other bodies. |
| ~ inertial mass | (physics) the mass of a body as determined by the second law of motion from the acceleration of the body when it is subjected to a force that is not due to gravity. |
| ~ atomic mass, atomic weight, relative atomic mass | (chemistry) the mass of an atom of a chemical element expressed in atomic mass units. |
| ~ mass energy | (physics) the mass of a body regarded relativistically as energy. |
| ~ molecular weight, relative molecular mass | (chemistry) the sum of the relative atomic masses of the constituent atoms of a molecule. |
| ~ mass defect, mass deficiency | the amount by which the mass of an atomic nucleus is less than the sum of the masses of its constituent particles. |
| ~ fundamental measure, fundamental quantity | one of the four quantities that are the basis of systems of measurement. |
| n. (quantity) | 2. batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad | (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent.; "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos"; "it must have cost plenty"; "a slew of journalists"; "a wad of money" |
| ~ large indefinite amount, large indefinite quantity | an indefinite quantity that is above the average in size or magnitude. |
| ~ deluge, flood, inundation, torrent | an overwhelming number or amount.; "a flood of requests"; "a torrent of abuse" |
| ~ haymow | a mass of hay piled up in a barn for preservation. |
| n. (group) | 3. mass | an ill-structured collection of similar things (objects or people). |
| ~ aggregation, collection, accumulation, assemblage | several things grouped together or considered as a whole. |
| ~ logjam | an immovable mass of logs blocking a river. |
| ~ shock | a bushy thick mass (especially hair).; "he had an unruly shock of black hair" |
| n. (act) | 4. mass | (Roman Catholic Church and Protestant Churches) the celebration of the Eucharist. |
| ~ religious ceremony, religious ritual | a ceremony having religious meaning. |
| ~ high mass | a solemn and elaborate Mass with music. |
| ~ low mass | a Mass recited without music. |
| ~ requiem | a Mass celebrated for the dead. |
| ~ church of rome, roman catholic church, roman church, western church, roman catholic | the Christian Church based in the Vatican and presided over by a pope and an episcopal hierarchy. |
| ~ protestant church, protestant | the Protestant churches and denominations collectively. |
| n. (object) | 5. mass | a body of matter without definite shape.; "a huge ice mass" |
| ~ body | an individual 3-dimensional object that has mass and that is distinguishable from other objects.; "heavenly body" |
| ~ coprolith, faecalith, fecalith, stercolith | a hard mass of fecal matter. |
| ~ drift | a large mass of material that is heaped up by the wind or by water currents. |
| ~ mat | a mass that is densely tangled or interwoven.; "a mat of weeds and grass" |
| ~ mush, pulp | any soft or soggy mass.; "he pounded it to a pulp" |
| n. (group) | 6. hoi polloi, mass, masses, multitude, people, the great unwashed | the common people generally.; "separate the warriors from the mass"; "power to the people" |
| ~ group, grouping | any number of entities (members) considered as a unit. |
| ~ 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.; "every artist needs an audience"; "the broadcast reached an audience of millions" |
| ~ followers, following | a group of followers or enthusiasts. |
| n. (attribute) | 7. bulk, mass, volume | the property of something that is great in magnitude.; "it is cheaper to buy it in bulk"; "he received a mass of correspondence"; "the volume of exports" |
| ~ magnitude | the property of relative size or extent (whether large or small).; "they tried to predict the magnitude of the explosion"; "about the magnitude of a small pea" |
| ~ dollar volume, turnover | the volume measured in dollars.; "the store's dollar volume continues to rise" |
| n. (communication) | 8. mass | a musical setting for a Mass.; "they played a Mass composed by Beethoven" |
| ~ high mass | a solemn and elaborate Mass with music. |
| ~ church music, religious music | genre of music composed for performance as part of religious ceremonies. |
| ~ requiem | a musical setting for a Mass celebrating the dead. |
| n. (communication) | 9. mass | a sequence of prayers constituting the Christian Eucharistic rite.; "the priest said Mass" |
| ~ prayer | a fixed text used in praying. |
| v. (motion) | 10. mass | join together into a mass or collect or form a mass.; "Crowds were massing outside the palace" |
| ~ press | crowd closely.; "The crowds pressed along the street" |
| ~ crowd together, crowd | to gather together in large numbers.; "men in straw boaters and waxed mustaches crowded the verandah" |
| adj. | 11. aggregate, aggregated, aggregative, mass | formed of separate units gathered into a mass or whole.; "aggregate expenses include expenses of all divisions combined for the entire year"; "the aggregated amount of indebtedness" |
| ~ collective | forming a whole or aggregate. |
| nugget | | |
| n. (object) | 1. nugget | a solid lump of a precious metal (especially gold) as found in the earth. |
| ~ hunk, lump | a large piece of something without definite shape.; "a hunk of bread"; "a lump of coal" |
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