mast

See also: Mast, MAST, mást, måst, and mast-

English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Middle English mast, from Old English mæst (“mast”), from Proto-Germanic *mastaz (“mast, sail-pole”), from Proto-Indo-European *mazdos (“pole, mast”). Cognate with Dutch mast, German Mast, and via Indo-European with Latin mālus, Russian мо́ст (móst, “bridge”), Irish adhmad.

Noun

mast (plural masts)

masts of a ship
  1. A tall, slim post or tower, usually tapering upward, used to support, for example, the sails on a ship, flags, floodlights, or communications equipment such as an aerial, usually supported by guy-wires.
  2. (naval) A non-judicial punishment ("NJP") disciplinary hearing under which a commanding officer studies and disposes of cases involving those under his command.
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Verb

mast (third-person singular simple present masts, present participle masting, simple past and past participle masted)

  1. To supply and fit a mast to a ship
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Etymology 2

Old English mæst (“fallen nuts, food for swine”), mæsten (“to fatten, feed”), from West Germanic; probably related to meat.

Noun

mast (plural masts)

  1. The fruit of forest-trees (beech, oak, chestnut, pecan, etc.), especially if having fallen from the tree, used as fodder for pigs and other animals.
    • c. 1609, George Chapman, Homer, Prince of Poets [translation of Odyssey]:
      She shut them straight in sties, and gave them meat: / Oak-mast, and beech, and cornel fruit, they eat,
    • 1715, Robert South, "A Sermon upon Prov. i.32", Twelve sermons preached at several times, and upon several occasions, page 73:
      they feed and grovel like Swine under an Oak, filling themselves with the Mast, but never so much as looking up
    • 1955, Robin Jenkins, The Cone-Gatherers, Canongate 2012, page 162:
      He […] would begin to pick up the seed-cases or mast, squeeze each one with his fingers to see if it were fertile, and drop it if it were not.
Translations

Verb

mast (third-person singular simple present masts, present participle masting, simple past and past participle masted)

  1. (of swine and other animals) To feed on forest seed or fruit.
  2. (agriculture, forestry, ecology, of a population of plants) To vary fruit and seed production in multi-year cycles.
    • 1985, Michael Fenner, Seed ecology, page 33:
      Any individual tree which masted in a generally non-mast year would be subjected to the exclusive attention of the seed predators and so would be selected against.
    • 2004, Michael Scherer-Lorenzen, Christian Körner, Ernst-Detlef Schulze, Forest Diversity and Function: Temperate and Boreal Systems, page 28:
      However, if this were true, all or most masting species (e.g., Fagus and Quercus) in a forest would have to mast in synchrony to be effective against generalist herbivores.
    • 2008, Chris Rowthorn, Muhammad Cohen, China Williams, Borneo, page 50:
      Because dipterocarp seeds are winged and spin gracefully as they fall, the dispersal of millions of dipterocarp seeds during a masting event is one of the greatest spectacles that you can see on planet Earth.

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Czech

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *mastь.

Noun

mast f

  1. ointment

Derived terms

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mɑst/
  • Rhymes: -ɑst
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Etymology 1

From Old Dutch *mast, from Proto-Germanic *mastaz.

Noun

mast m (plural masten, diminutive mastje n)

  1. mast
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Noun

mast m (plural masten, diminutive mastje n)

  1. mast, fodder for pigs or other animals made up of acorns and beechnuts.

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Estonian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmɑsʲt/

Etymology

From either Middle Low German mast or German mast.

Noun

mast (genitive masti, partitive masti)

  1. mast
  2. (card games) suit
  3. (poker) flush

Declension

Compounds

Kurdish

Noun

mast m

  1. yoghurt (a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process)


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Middle English

Adjective

mast

  1. Alternative form of mased

Middle French

Etymology

Proto-Germanic *mastaz

Noun

mast m (plural masts)

  1. mast (structure found on watercraft)

Descendants

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Middle Low German mast (“mast”).

Noun

mast f, m (definite singular masta or masten, indefinite plural master, definite plural mastene)

  1. mast
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Etymology 2

Alternative forms

Verb

mast

  1. past participle of mase

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Middle Low German mast.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mɑst/

Noun

mast f (definite singular masta, indefinite plural master, definite plural mastene)

  1. mast

References

Old French

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Frankish *mast.

Noun

mast m (oblique plural maz or matz, nominative singular maz or matz, nominative plural mast)

  1. mast (structure found on watercraft)

Descendants

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *mastь (Russian масть (mastʹ), Polish maść). Compare mazati.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mâːst/

Noun

mȃst f (Cyrillic spelling ма̑ст)

  1. grease
  2. ointment
  3. fat
  4. lard
  5. schmaltz

Declension

References

  • “mast” in Hrvatski jezični portal

Swedish

Noun

mast c

  1. mast, tall slim structure

Declension

Declension of mast 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative mast masten master masterna
Genitive masts mastens masters masternas

Zazaki

Noun

mast n

  1. yoghurt (a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process)

Synonyms

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