Mass
Mass noun - A considerable amount.
Usage example: I have a mass of work to do tonight
Ray
Ray noun - A very small amount.
Usage example: the tapping sound ceased, extinguishing the last ray of hope that the trapped miners were still alive
Nearby Words: rayed, raying, raye
How words are described
Both words in one sentence
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An episode of Eureka features a ray designed to shrink small inanimate objects by shunting most of their mass to an alternate dimension.
Source: Shrink Ray - The Animorphs only teamed up with their main enemy, Visser Three, twice: to defeat a race of annoying, psycho, tiny-tiny-tiny aliens with a shrink ray and a mass Napoleon Complex, and to escape from a bunch of mutated blue fish-people that want to kill and stuff them for their Derelict Graveyard.
Source: Enemy Mine / Literature -
From a distribution standpoint, DVDs are still significantly cheaper to mass-produce, so low-grossing movies or independent films may skip Blu-ray.
Source: Useful Notes / Blu-ray
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Ray and Mass. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 14, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/mass/ray
Mass & Ray. N.p., 2016. Web. 14 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/mass/ray>.
Ray or Mass. 2016. Accessed August 14, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/mass/ray.
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