(v. t.) To collect into a mass or heap; to gather a great quantity of; to accumulate; as, to amass a treasure or a fortune; to amass words or phrases.
(n.) A mass; a heap.
Example Sentences:
(1) He numbered the Kennedy family and Ian Fleming, creator of the James Bond thrillers, among his friends and spent millions on amassing a first-class art collection, featuring works by Manet and Monet, as well as Van Gogh.
(2) Once out of the army, he took the advice of Leo Amery that it cost money to have principles in politics, and set about amassing some.
(3) The 40-year-old dentist and businessman has amassed a personal fortune of around half a billion dollars (some 365 million euros) in the past three years alone, according to a report in the Swiss weekly L’Hebdo.
(4) The patient showed many small soft nodules for several years, then they became large, while some of them amassed.
(5) Iran's efforts to replace the breakdown-prone, 1970s vintage IR-1 centrifuge it is now operating at its Natanz and Fordow enrichment plants are closely watched by the west since success could lead to more efficient equipment enabling the country to amass material that could be used for atomic bombs more quickly.
(6) Too distracted by "having it all", western women are failing to breed enough to repel the amassing hordes.
(7) Data were amassed every three days in the spring and summer, and weekly in the fall and winter.
(8) And it is the factional system that allows kingmakers like Obeid to amass power, and to turn that power into ill-gotten wealth.
(9) The museum chief’s remarks followed an agreement signed in Berlin on Monday between Germany and Switzerland which will see Bern taking on several hundred works from the collection – much of which works amassed during the Nazi era and included paintings and drawings by Marc Chagall, Claude Monet and Pablo Picasso.
(10) Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, whose feud with Zuckerberg was portrayed in the fictionalised 2010 film The Social Network , have amassed nearly $11m worth of Bitcoins, according to a report in the New York Times in April.
(11) But voters in 31 states awarded Trump outright victory, and he steadily amassed an unanswerable lead.
(12) Operation Payback Those monitoring the chatrooms used by Operation Payback say its hackers have set aside the sexual allegations, instead concentrating their efforts on amassing greater potency for the next phase of the WikLeaks fightback.
(13) Non-governmental organisations reported scenes of mayhem at the port of Piraeus , where about 5,000 men, women and children amassed.
(14) Although the bulk of knowledge amassed prior to the advent of the electron microscope is amazing, it was, however, only after the biological application of electron microscopy that the morphological evidence of the cardiac elements responsible for the endocrine function of the heart could have been provided.
(15) A petition on the site Change.org started by Iman has amassed more than 725,000 signatures calling for Ghavami’s release.
(16) The nation amassed huge foreign reserves, which underpinned its growth, reflected in a currency that was as strong as the German mark.
(17) They have a joint income of £61,000 and have amassed a deposit of £12,500 but cannot afford to buy a property.
(18) But with students set to amass far greater debts due to rising undergraduate fees, UAL is trying to design courses that give students more time to work, not least because its students also have substantial material costs.
(19) Until a larger body of data is amassed, it was recommended that the air-bone gap for speech be used in conjunction with, not in place of, other audiometric tests.
(20) For many traders, street food is a means to a more conventional end: you start out selling from the back of a van and, if you amass a big enough following, you might end up with a bricks-and-mortar restaurant.
Cumulate
Definition:
(v. t.) To gather or throw into a heap; to heap together; to accumulate.
Example Sentences:
(1) The cumulative incidence of grade II and III acute GVHD in the 'low dose' cyclosporin group was 42% compared to 51% in the 'standard dose' group (P = 0.60).
(2) Children of smoking mothers had an 18.0 per cent cumulative incidence of post-infancy wheezing through 10 years of age, compared with 16.2 per cent among children of nonsmoking mothers (risk ratio 1.11, 95% CI: 1.02, 1.21).
(3) Measures of average and cumulative rank were used to augment tests of the significance of correlations between different indicators.
(4) It was shown that the antibiotic had low acute toxicity, did not cumulate and had no skin-irritating effect.
(5) In guinea pig ventricular myocytes, the positive contractile staircase was associated with ascending staircases of both peak systolic and end diastolic [Ca2+]i because of a cumulative increase in diastolic [Ca2+]i.
(6) Results obtained from cumulative labeling and pulse-labeling and chase experiments with cells from late gastrulae, yolk plug-stage embryos, and neurulae showed that the 30S RNA is an intermediate in rRNA processing and is derived from 40S pre-rRNA and processed to 28S rRNA.
(7) A cumulative response rate of 31% is reported for a total of 200 patients treated with this drug.
(8) Repeated feedings of 1 mg of Sudan III induced cumulative increases in the concentration of menadione reductase (EC 1.6.99.2) in liver, whereas protein concentration was unchanged.
(9) A physiologically based model, comprising the reservoir, liver blood and tissue, and bile, was fitted to reservoir concentrations of 3H-oxazepam and 3H-oxazepam glucuronides, and the cumulative amount excreted into bile.
(10) The cumulative results suggest that the two sulfate activating enzymes do not associate to form a "3'-phosphoadenosine 5'-phosphosulfate synthetase" complex.
(11) Thus, in theory, the Pl concentration should cumulatively decrease as the blood approaches the outer cortex, contrary to the concentration of red and white blood cells (RBC and WBC).
(12) Using cumulative nursing GPAs, the likelihood of predicting success on NCLEX-RN increased at the end of each academic year.
(13) Also, studies on the simulated cumulative effect of background radiation during storage failed to find any detrimental effect when embryos were exposed to the equivalent of about 2000 years of background radiation.
(14) The requirement of BHK-21 cells for transferrin appears to be minimal since cells exposed to HDL and basic FGF could be serially transferred for at least 50 cumulative population doublings in the absence of transferrin.
(15) In patients with preexistent congestive heart failure (CHF), predicted cumulative survival rates at 1, 3, and 5 years were 78%, 69%, and 57%, respectively, for group 1 (n = 23) and 90%, 83%, and 75%, respectively, for group 2 (n = 16).
(16) The estimated mean decrement in KCO for a cadmium worker employed 5 or more years with a cumulative exposure of 2000 yr.microgram.m-3 (exposure to the current UK control limit of 50 micrograms.m-3 for a working lifetime of 40 yr) lies between 0.05 and 0.3 mmol.min-1.kPa-1.l-1 (95% confidence interval).
(17) The life-table method was used to determine the cumulative survival rate and cumulative recurrence rate.
(18) Furthermore, this study demonstrates that by forming groups of patients with similar age at diagnosis the cumulative survival rate declined in the group with early diagnosis much more markedly than in the group of patients with later diagnosis.
(19) The cumulative incidence of colorectal cancer in all patients was 0.2% at 10 yr, 2.8% at 15 yr, 5.5% at 20 yr, and 13.5% at 30 yr.
(20) Significant differences were found mainly for the peripheral-, core temperature difference, the cumulative sodium and cumulative fluid balance from which the diagnosis addisonian crisis could have been made.