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Definition: Mast |
MastNoun1. A vertical spar for supporting sails. 2. Nuts of forest trees (as beechnuts and acorns) accumulated on the ground; used especially as food for swine. 3. Nuts of forest trees used as feed for swine. 4. Any sturdy upright pole. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "mast" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of seeing the masts of ships, denotes long and pleasant voyages, the making of many new friends, and the gaining of new possessions. To see the masts of wrecked ships, denotes sudden changes in your circumstances which will necessitate giving over anticipated pleasures. If a sailor dreams of a mast, he will soon sail on an eventful trip. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Food & Agriculture | A straight piece of timber or a hollow cylinder of wood or metal set up vertically or nearly so and supporting yards, booms, derricks, or gaffs or outriggers, radio and radar antennas, signal lights, flags, etc. Source: European Union. (references) |
| The fruit of trees considered as food for livestock and certain kinds of wildlife. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| A tall standing tree, trimmed and topped, and generally braced with guy lines, near whose truncated top the skyline and other riggings are fastened in skyline-and high-lead cable logging. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Literature | Mast (See Before The Mast .). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Mining | A. A drill derrick or tripod mounted on a drill unit, which can be raised to its operating position by mechanical means b. A single pole, used as a drill derrick, supported in an upright or operating position by guys c. A tower or vertical beam carrying one or more load lines at its to. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
- A mast is a pole which holds a sail of a boat, a flag, or an antenna.
- A mast is a crop of fruit or nuts (wild or cultivated) that ripen at the same time.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Mast."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
MAST | English | Mega Amp Spherical Tokamak | Nuclear Energy & Physics |
MAST | Greek | ιατρική στολή εναντίον της καταπληξίας | Public Administration |
MAST | Portuguese | Calças médicas antichoque | Public Administration |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Height | Pole, pikestaff, maypole, flagstaff; top mast, topgallant mast. |
Refuge | Jury mast; vent-peg; safety valve, blow-off valve; safety lamp; lightning rod, lightning conductor; safety belt, airbag, seat belt; antilock brakes, antiskid tires, snow tires. |
Resolution | Devote oneself to, give oneself up to; throw away the scabbard, kick down the ladder, nail one's colors to the mast, set one's back against the wall, set one's teeth, put one's foot down, take one's stand; stand firm; (stability); steel oneself; stand no nonsense, not listen to the voice of the charmer. |
Substitution | Subs ersatz, makeshift, temporary expedient, replacement, succedaneum; shift, pis aller, stopgap, jury rigging, jury mast, locum tenens, warming pan, dummy, scapegoat; double; changeling; quid pro quo, alternative. |
Summit | Topgallant mast, sky scraper; quarter deck, hurricane deck. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Mast Qalandar (1955) Four Bears Before the Mast (1949) Two Years Before the Mast (1946) Mast Fakir (1930) Sailor Nailing Flag to Mast (1898) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Taking horizontal sextant angles from ship's mast Photograph from 1931 Hydrographic Manual. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Monark outfitted for hydrography in Indian River Inlet, Delaware coast Motorola Miniranger secured on mast and covered with red flagging Boat was being used for range-azimuth hydrography Detached party from NOAA Ship PEIRCE. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Waquoit Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. Mast of a beached boat is visible on shore. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR). |  | Looking down from the mast of the WESTWARD to the bowsprit. Credit: Small World. |
 | El Moro, the lighthouse and storm warning mast at the entrance to Havana. Credit: Small World. |  | At the Mare Island Naval Shipyard, California, 16 June 1950, loading deck cargo for her impending trans-Pacific voyage to Korea. Her sister ship Kum Kang San is at right. Note 3"/50 dual-purpose gun mounted forward, Republic of Korea flags at bow and stern, mast and "crow's nest", Danforth anchor, navigation lights, ship's bell mounted on the pilothouse front and other details on and around her main deck. On the original print, her old U.S. Navy hull number ("810") is visible in spot welded outline behind her Korean Navy bow number ("704"). USS George A. Johnson (DE-583) is in the left center distance. Credit: NAVY. |
 | In the Hudson River, New York, 27 December 1918. Note wartime modifications, including removal of some of the seven-inch and three-inch broadside guns and fitting of blast deflection shields on the "cage" mast fire control positions. Credit: NAVY. |  | The Los Angeles [Navy airship] at her mooring mast, Lakehurst, N.J. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Columbia, steel mast carried away. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Coast Guard Auxiliary. Guardians of inland waters. Trimming sail. A Coast Guardsman climbs the mast of a schooner on patrol duty off Boston. Coast Guard auxiliarists are given instructions to carry on such work as the need arises. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Mast" by Neil Smith Commentary: "A picture taken from within a train, whilst passing a tal mast." | "Radio Mast" by James Stephen Windsor Commentary: "The radio / mobile mast on the Beacon, Birmingham." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | A roof inspires him with no more fear than a mast. |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | With unrelaxed nerves, with morning vigor, sail by it, looking another way, tied to the mast like Ulysses |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Mast cells are granule-containing cells in tissue. (references) | |
The IgE is then released and attaches to the surface of mast cells. (references) | ||
The chemicals released by skin mast cells, in contrast, can prompt hives. (references) | ||
Economic History | Mauritius | In the textile sector, encouraged by the Africa Growth and Opportunity Act, Mast Industries Ltd. (a subsidiary of The Limited), GAP, Eddie Bauer, and William E. Connor all have opened regional buying offices in Mauritius. (references) |
Sri Lanka | Major U.S. companies with investments in Sri Lanka include: Energizer Battery, Mast Industries, Smart Shirts (a subsidiary of Kellwood Industries), CPC International/Bestfoods, Caltex, Sportif, Citibank, 3M, Cargill, Tandon Associates, Paxar Corp, Warburg Pincus, TSG Network, Worldquest and Fitch IBCR. (references) | |
Mauritius | Main products re-exported include frozen fish (41%), textile products and accessories (18%), vehicle parts (8%), machinery and electronic equipment (6%), chemical and pharmaceutical products (3%), and foodstuff (3%). The freeport is being utilized by numerous American companies to handle their national/regional distribution and re-export services, including: Coca-Cola, Hewlett Packard, Mast Industries, the GAP, Brooks Brothers, Rockport, Maglite, and Expeditors International. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Mast" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.35% of the time. "Mast" is used about 463 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.35% | 460 | 12,751 |
| Unclassified Items | 0.43% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.22% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 463 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "mast" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Mast | Last name | 3,000 | 4,490 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "mast": Afore the mast ♦ anemometer mast ♦ antenna mast ♦ at half mast ♦ beech mast ♦ before the mast ♦ Buck mast ♦ Cheeks of a mast ♦ flag mast ♦ Jigger mast ♦ jury mast ♦ main mast ♦ main topgallant mast ♦ mast cell ♦ Mast coat ♦ Mast hoop ♦ mast or spar ♦ mast year ♦ mizen mast ♦ mizzen mast ♦ mooring mast ♦ nail one's colours to the mast ♦ pole mast ♦ radio mast ♦ royal mast ♦ sail before the mast ♦ Spencer mast ♦ to spring a mast ♦ To stay a mast ♦ top mast ♦ topgallant mast ♦ transmitter mast ♦ trysail mast. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "mast": mast-breaking, mast-cell, Mast-Cell, mast-fruiting, mast-head, mast-heads, mast-high, mast-like, mast-mounted, mast-stepping, mast-stripping. | |
Ending with "mast": in-mast. | |
Containing "mast": half-mast high or half-staff, To hang the flag half-mast high. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "mast"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | vë direk, lënde të rëna përdhe, direk (spar). (various references) | |
Arabic | سارية (pole, staff, standard), زانة, عمود الإشارات, صاري المركب, صاري السفينة. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | слагам мачта, флашок, мачта (pole, stick, tower), прът за антена, пилон (pier, pile, pylon, tower). (various references) | |
Chinese | 檣 (boom), 桅 , 天線 (antenna), 帆柱. (various references) | |
Czech | vysílací vìž, stožár (flagpole, flagstaff, pylon, spar), krmivo (feed, fodder, food, pasturage, pasture). (various references) | |
Danish | mast (pole, post, pylon, supporting trestle, tower, transmission tower, transmission-line tower, upright). (various references) | |
Dutch | mast (king post, pole, post, pylon, sampson post, tower, transmission tower, transmission-line tower). (various references) | |
Esperanto | masto. (various references) | |
Faeroese | mastur. (various references) | |
Farsi | تیر (Arrow, Bar, Dart, Gunshot, Ledger, Lug, Perch, Prop, Shaft, Shot, Spike, Staff, Stanchion, Staple, Timber), دیرک (Lug), دکل یکپارچه , بادکل مجهزکردن . (various references) | |
Finnish | masto. (various references) | |
French | mât, pylône. (various references) | |
Frisian | mêst. (various references) | |
German | Mast (fattening, feed, pole, post, pylon, standard). (various references) | |
Greek | κατάρτι, ιστός (cobweb, tissue). (various references) | |
Hungarian | árboc (pole, rig, spar). (various references) | |
Icelandic | siglutré. (various references) | |
Indonesian | tiang kapal. (various references) | |
Irish | crann (tree). (various references) | |
Italian | albero (arbor, poplar, shaft, spindle, tree). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | マシン油 (barowner, machine oil, magic, magic glass, magic hand, magic ink marker, magic mirror, magic number, Magic Tape, magical, magician, majolica, Majorca, majority, manager, manipulator, mascara, mascot, masculine, mask, masker, masking, mass, mass communication, mass consumption, mass democracy, mass fashion, mass game, mass media, mass production, mass sales, mass screening, Masscomp, master, master course, master file, master key, master plan, master tape, masterpiece, Masters Golf Tournament, masturbation, mazurka, muscat, mustard, proprietor, serious, to jerk off, to masturbate), 檣 , 帆柱 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | マスト , ほばしら. (various references) | |
Korean | 돛대. (various references) | |
Manx | cur croan ayn, croan (boom, flag pole). (various references) | |
Papiamen | master, mast. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | astmay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | mastro (pole, shaft, staff, tree), poste (goalpost, pole, post, stake, stanchion, tree), glande (acorn, glans, tassel). (various references) | |
Romanian | ghindã (acorn, clubs), catarg (stick, topmast). (various references) | |
Russian | мачта. (various references) | |
Scottish | crann (adjust doorbolt, bar, doorbolt, plough, tall tree, tree). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | jarbol (spar), žir (acorn, glans, oak apple, oak gall, oak-nut, pannage). (various references) | |
Spanish | mástil (neck, pole, post). (various references) | |
Sranan | masi (crush, shatter, smash). (various references) | |
Swedish | mast (pole, pylon, spar). (various references) | |
Thai | เป็นชาวเรือหรือชาวทะเล (sail before the mast). (various references) | |
Turkish | palamut (acorn, Bonito, horse mackarel, valonia), kozalak (cone, pine cone), gemi direği, direk (atlas, backbone, beam, column, pillar, pole, post, pylon, spar, stake, stanchion, stick, upright). (various references) | |
Turkmen | bogaldak. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | щогла (pole, post). (various references) | |
Welsh | hwylbren. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | dellu, dimgul. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | arbor, arbore, arborem, arbores, arbori, arboribus, arboris, arborum, mali, malis, malo, malorum, malos, malum, malumque, malus, pinum, pinus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Proverbs Chapter 23, Verse 34 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai katakeish wsper en kardia qalasshV kai wsper kubernhthV en pollw kludwni |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Et eris sicut dormiens in medio mari et quasi sopitus gubernator amisso clavo |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And thou shalt ben as slepende in the myddil se, and as the steris man al forslept, the steer staf lost. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Yes, you will be like him who takes his rest on the sea, or on the top of a sail-support. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Proverbs Chapter 23, Verse 34 |
| Cebuano | Oo, ikaw maingon niadtong nagahigda sa kinataliwad-an sa dagat, Kun maingon niadtong nagahigda sa kinatumyan sa palo sa sakayan. |
| Chinese | 你 必 像 躺 在 海 中 、 或 像 臥 在 桅 杆 上 ． |
| Croatian | I bit æe ti kao da ležiš na puèini morskoj ili kao da ležiš navrh jarbola. |
| Danish | du har det, som lå du midt i Havet, som lå du oppe på en Mastetop. |
| Dutch | En gij zult zijn, gelijk een, die in het hart van de zee slaapt; en gelijk een, die in het opperste van den mast slaapt. |
| Finnish | Sinusta on kuin makaisit keskellä merta, on kuin maston huipussa makaisit. |
| French | Tu seras comme un homme couché au milieu de la mer, Comme un homme couché sur le sommet d`un mât: |
| German | und wirst sein wie einer, der mitten im Meer schläft, und wie einer schläft oben auf dem Mastbaum. |
| Haitian Creole | W'ap santi tankou si ou te sou lanmè: w'ap tankou si ou te sou tèt yon ma batiman. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Engkau merasa seperti berada pada ujung tiang kapal di tengah lautan; kepalamu pusing dan engkau terhuyung-huyung. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka engkau akan jadi kelak seperti orang yang tidur di tengah-tengah laut, dan seperti orang yang tidur di atas tiang kapal. |
| Italian | Ti parrà di giacere in alto mare o di dormire in cima all'albero maestro. |
| Maori | Ae ra, ka rite koe ki te tangata e takoto ana i waenga moana, ki te tangata ranei e takoto ana i te tihi o te rewa. |
| Norwegian | og du blir lik en som sover midt ute på havet, lik en som sover i toppen av en mast. |
| Portuguese | o serás como o que se deita no meio do mar, e como o que dorme no topo do mastro. |
| Rumanian | Vei fi ca un om culcat kn mijlocul mqrii, ca un om culcat pe vkrful unui catarg. |
| Russian | Й ФЩ ВХДЕЫШ, ЛБЛ УРСЭЙК УТЕДЙ НПТС Й ЛБЛ УРСЭЙК ОБ ЧЕТИХ НБЮФЩ. |
| Spanish | Serás como el que yace en medio del mar, o como el que yace en la punta de un mástil. |
| Swedish | Det är dig såsom låge du i havets djup, eller såsom svävade du uppe i en mast: |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "mast": mastaba, mastabah, mastabahs, mastabas, mastectomies, mastectomy, masted, master, mastered, masterful, masterfully, masterfulness, masterfulnesses, masteries, mastering, masterliness, masterlinesses, masterly, mastermind, masterminded, masterminding, masterminds, masterpiece, masterpieces, masters, mastership, masterships, mastersinger, mastersingers, masterstroke, masterstrokes, masterwork, masterworks, mastery, masthead, mastheaded, mastheading, mastheads, mastic, masticate, masticated, masticates, masticating, mastication, mastications, masticator, masticatories, masticators, masticatory, mastiche, mastiches. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "mast": demast, dismast, durmast, foremast, mainmast, mizzenmast, topmast. (additional references) | |
Words containing "mast": bandmaster, bandmasters, bullmastiff, bullmastiffs, burgomaster, burgomasters, bushmaster, bushmasters, choirmaster, choirmasters, concertmaster, concertmasters, demasted, demasting, demasts, dismasted, dismasting, dismasts, dockmaster, dockmasters, drillmaster, drillmasters, durmasts, foremasts, grandmaster, grandmasters, gynecomastia, gynecomastias, harbormaster, harbormasters, headmaster, headmasters, headmastership, headmasterships, housemaster, housemasters, ironmaster, ironmasters, loadmaster, loadmasters, mainmasts, mizzenmasts, onomastic, onomastically, onomastician, onomasticians, onomastics, overmaster, overmastered, overmastering, overmasters. (additional references) | |
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"Mast" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: amast, iast, kast, maas, mact, maest, maet, maft, magt, maist, Maisto, mait, mansit, mant, Marsett, mas, masa, masat, masct, Masetti, masi, masj, maso, masot, masq, masta, maste, masti, masto, Mastr, masu, Masutti, Matsa, maut, mawt, mayst, maz, mazet, meest, mesht, mest, mesta, meste, mesto, minst, mipst, misit, mista, mosht, mosta, msa, msap, msar, muast, musnt, musth, mustt, myst, nast, nasto, nazt, samt, Umast. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "mast" (pronounced ma"st) |
| 4 | m a" s t | amassed, massed. |
| 3 | -a" s t | aghast, assed, Bast, blast, cast, caste, classed, fast, gassed, Gast, glassed, grassed, harassed, hast, lambaste, last, miscast, passed, past, precast, recast, surpassed, unsurpassed, vast. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: mats, tams. | |
| Words within the letters "a-m-s-t" | |
-1 letter: mas, mat, sat, tam, tas. | |
-2 letters: am, as, at, ma, ta. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-m-s-t" | |
+1 letter: atmas, atoms, maist, malts, marts, masts, mates, maths, matts, mauts, mayst, meats, moats, satem, smalt, smart, stamp, steam, stoma, tames, tamis, tamps, teams, trams. | |
+2 letters: admits, almost, ambits, aments, amidst, armets, asthma, atmans, autism, datums, demast, gamest, gamuts, jetsam, kismat, lamest, magots, maists, manats, mantas, mantes, mantis, mascot, masted, master, mastic, mastix, maters, mateys, matins, matres, matsah, mattes, matzas, matzos, mayest, meatus, metals, misact, misate, miseat, muscat, mutase, ramets, samite, samlet, smalti, smalto, smalts, smarts, smarty, somata, stamen, stamps, steams, steamy, stemma, stigma, stomal, stomas, stream, stroma, struma, tamals, tamers, tamest, tharms, tomans, tramps. | |
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