Collect
Collect verb - To gradually form into a layer, pile, or mass.
Usage example: dust has been collecting under my bed for years
Mass
Mass verb - To gradually form into a layer, pile, or mass.
Usage example: clouds massing on the western side of the mountain range
Collect is a synonym for mass in gather topic. Sometimes you can use "Collect" instead a verb "Mass", if it concerns topics such as accumulate.
Mutual synonyms
Common collocations
| people | collect people | mass people |
Both words in one sentence
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Cities had to be careful about adding too much mass, though, or collect a type of floating coal to stay up.
Source: Floating Continent - This starship uses the Bussard scoop to collect the interstellar medium not as fuel, but as simple reaction mass, i.e.
Source: Ram Scoop - In the Star Trek: Voyager episode "The Cloud", Janeway attempts to collect particles from a space cloud to use for replicator reaction mass.
Source: Ram Scoop
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Mass and Collect. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/collect/mass
Collect & Mass. N.p., 2016. Web. 21 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/collect/mass>.
Mass or Collect. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/collect/mass.
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