What's the difference between amass and hoard?

Amass


Definition:

  • (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.

Hoard


Definition:

  • (n.) See Hoarding, 2.
  • (n.) A store, stock, or quantity of anything accumulated or laid up; a hidden supply; a treasure; as, a hoard of provisions; a hoard of money.
  • (v. t.) To collect and lay up; to amass and deposit in secret; to store secretly, or for the sake of keeping and accumulating; as, to hoard grain.
  • (v. i.) To lay up a store or hoard, as of money.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This early hyperphagy had later consequences for the feeding behaviour of adult males, which looked for food and consumed it more intensively in a new environment and also hoarded it.
  • (2) Waco, Texas, will forever be known for the siege that began in February 1993 when agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms raided a compound owned by the Branch Davidian religious sect to investigate allegations of weapons hoarding.
  • (3) The consequences of 6-hydroxydopamine lesions of the mesolimbic dopamine system on hoarding behavior were investigated in the rat.
  • (4) That would mean reform of a property tax system that manages to stimulate demand, encourage land hoarding and be regressive all at the same time.
  • (5) Worse still for Modi are indications the policy has not unearthed the hoards of “black money” he promised.
  • (6) Then the intersect of regression line of food hoarded during meal time vs. body weight with the X-axis was measured.
  • (7) The results fail to support the object value hypothesis of hoarding.
  • (8) A ten-day baseline indicated consistently elevated urine sugar levels and that the patient frequently violated his prescribed low sugar diet by stealing, trading and hoarding high sugar foods.
  • (9) Its hoarding proclaims: "An unashamedly ultra-modern masterpiece emerges alongside the most celebrated of cathedrals."
  • (10) UK householders are estimated to be hoarding at least £1bn worth of electrical and electronic equipment in their homes which are no longer used but which still hold significant value, with the UK market value for trading pre-owned equipment potentially worth up to £3bn.
  • (11) The Gurlitt hoard is a survival of the Nazis' strange and ambivalent attitude to art, from Hitler's aesthetic New Order to the simple philistine greed that probably motivated most of their art theft.
  • (12) For now, just let me say that while old progressives instinctively hoard power to the nation state, the new progressive approach is intrinsically internationalist on issues such as Europe, migration, trade and foreign aid.
  • (13) It is concluded that 1) the main response of the rat to starvation is food hoarding rather than ingestion and 2) the estimation of the body weight set point from hoarding is not affected by the costs of food procurement.
  • (14) One of those to question the haste with which the hoard is being put on public display is Gurlitt’s cousin, Ute Werner, who legally challenged the will in which he left his collection to the Bern museum.
  • (15) The most recent figures released by the Reserve Bank of India show that about 12.6tn rupees have been deposited since the rupee recall was announced, far more than the Modi government had predicted, indicating that it may have underestimated the amount of untaxed wealth being hoarded by citizens.
  • (16) Looking up we saw a large tabby on top of a wooden hoarding which was covering a building site in Vauxhall.
  • (17) Ronald Lewis finds it hard to believe it is 10 years since the water came, even though the newspaper clippings he hoarded in a scrapbook and pinned to a wall are yellowed now by age.
  • (18) The "object value" hypothesis suggests rats hoard objects that they perceive as valuable as related to some state or need.
  • (19) The results indicated that the regression of hoarding behavior on body weight was virtually identical at estrus and diestrus (same slope), but the critical level of body weight for the onset of hoarding behavior was 31.2 g lower at estrus than at diestrus.
  • (20) Unlike the banks, consumers, especially the hardest pressed ones, would spend rather than hoard.