What does MAST mean?
Definitions for MAST
mæst, mɑstmast
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Princeton's WordNet
mastnoun
a vertical spar for supporting sails
mastnoun
nuts of forest trees (as beechnuts and acorns) accumulated on the ground
mastnoun
nuts of forest trees used as feed for swine
mastnoun
any sturdy upright pole
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
MASTnoun
Etymology: mast, mát, French; mæst , Saxon.
Ten masts attach’d make not the altitude
That thou hast perpendicularly fallen. William Shakespeare, King Lear.He dropp’d his anchors, and his oars he ply’d;
Furl’d every sail, and drawing down the mast,
His vessel moor’d. John Dryden, Homer.The oaks bear masts, the briars scarlet hips:
The bounteous housewife, nature, on each bush
Lays her full mess before you. William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens.Trees that bear mast, and nuts, are more lasting than those that bear fruits; as oaks and beeches last longer than apples and pears. Francis Bacon, Nat. Hist. №. 583.
When sheep fed like men upon acorns, a shepherd drove his flock into a little oak wood, and up he went to shake them down some masts. Roger L'Estrange, Fables.
The breaking down an old frame of government, and erecting a new, seems like the cutting down an old oak and planting a young one: it is true, the grandson may enjoy the shade and the mast, but the planter, besides the pleasure of imagination, has no other benefit. William Temple, Miscel.
As a savage boar,
With forest mast and fat’ning marshes fed,
When once he sees himself in toils inclos’d,
Whets his tusks. John Dryden, Æn.Wond’ring dolphins o’er the palace glide;
On leaves and mast of mighty oaks they brouze,
And their broad fins entangle in the boughs. Dryden.
ChatGPT
mast
A mast is a tall, vertical structure on a ship or boat, typically used for holding sails, rigging, flags, or signals. It can also refer to a tall structure used for transmitting or broadcasting signals, such as a radio or television mast. Furthermore, a mast can also refer to the fruit of forest trees like acorns and chestnuts as food for pigs and other animals.
Webster Dictionary
Mastnoun
the fruit of the oak and beech, or other forest trees; nuts; acorns
Mastnoun
a pole, or long, strong, round piece of timber, or spar, set upright in a boat or vessel, to sustain the sails, yards, rigging, etc. A mast may also consist of several pieces of timber united by iron bands, or of a hollow pillar of iron or steel
Mastnoun
the vertical post of a derrick or crane
Mastverb
to furnish with a mast or masts; to put the masts of in position; as, to mast a ship
Etymology: [AS. maest, masc.; akin to D., G., Dan., & Sw. mast, Icel. mastr, and perh. to L. malus.]
Wikidata
Mast
The mast of a sailing vessel is a tall spar, or arrangement of spars, erected more or less vertically on the centre-line of a ship or boat. Its purposes include carrying sail, spars, and derricks, and giving necessary height to a navigation light, look-out position, signal yard, control position, radio aerial or signal lamp. Large ships have several masts, with the size and configuration depending on the style of ship. Nearly all sailing masts are guyed masts. Until the mid-19th century all vessels' masts were made of wood formed from a single or several piece of timber which typically consisted of the trunk of a conifer tree. From the 16th century, vessels were often built of a size requiring masts taller and thicker than could be made from single tree trunks. On these larger vessels, to achieve the required height, the masts were built from up to four sections, known in order of rising height above the decks as the lower, top, topgallant and royal masts. Giving the lower sections sufficient thickness necessitated building them up from separate pieces of wood. Such a section was known as a made mast, as opposed to sections formed from single pieces of timber, which were known as pole masts.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Mast
mast, n. a long upright pole for bearing the yards, rigging, &c. in a ship.—v.t. to supply with a mast or masts.—adj. Mast′ed.—n. Mast′-head, the head or top of the mast of a ship.—v.t. to raise to the mast-head: to punish by sending a sailor to the mast-head for a certain time.—n. Mast′-house, the place in dockyards where masts are made.—adj. Mast′less, having no mast. [A.S. mæst, the stem of a tree; Ger. mast.]
Mast
mast, n. the fruit of the oak, beech, chestnut, and other forest trees, on which swine feed: nuts, acorns.—adjs. Mast′ful; Mast′less; Mast′y. [A.S. mæst; Ger. mast, whence mästen, to feed.]
Dictionary of Nautical Terms
mast
[Anglo-Saxon mæst, also meant chief or greatest]. A long cylindrical piece of timber elevated perpendicularly upon the keel of a ship, to which are attached the yards, the rigging, and the sails. It is either formed of one piece, and called a pole-mast, or composed of several pieces joined together and termed a made mast. A lower mast is fixed in the ship by sheers (which see), and the foot or keel of it rests in a block of timber called the step, which is fixed upon the keelson.--Expending a mast, or carrying it away, is said, when it is broken by foul weather.--Fore-mast. That which stands near the stem, and is next in size to the main-mast.--Jury-mast. (See jury-mast.)--Main-mast. The largest mast in a ship.--Mizen-mast. The smallest mast, standing between the main-mast and the stern.--Over-masted, or taunt-masted. The state of a ship whose masts are too tall or too heavy.--Rough-mast, or rough-tree. A spar fit for making a mast. (See bowspritandjib-boom.)--Springing a mast. When it is cracked horizontally in any place.--Top-mast. A top-mast is raised at the head or top of the lower-mast through a cap, and supported by the trestle-trees.--Topgallant-mast. A mast smaller than the preceding, raised and secured to its head in the same manner.--Royal-mast. A yet smaller mast, elevated through irons at the head of the topgallant-mast; but more generally the two are formed of one spar.--Under-masted or low-masted ships. Vessels whose masts are small and short for their size.--To mast a ship. The act of placing a ship's masts.
Editors Contribution
mast
A type of telecommunications structure.
The mast on the top of the mountain is a telecommunications mast.
Submitted by MaryC on March 14, 2020
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Surnames Frequency by Census Records
MAST
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Mast is ranked #2288 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
The Mast surname appeared 15,932 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 5 would have the surname Mast.
96.9% or 15,452 total occurrences were White.
1.2% or 198 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
0.8% or 132 total occurrences were of two or more races.
0.4% or 73 total occurrences were Asian.
0.3% or 54 total occurrences were Black.
0.1% or 21 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
Anagrams for MAST »
stam
mats
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of MAST in Chaldean Numerology is: 3
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of MAST in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8
Examples of MAST in a Sentence
We don't want anything to become entangled in the mast and the wreckage around it.
Today we live in a society of stupids. We swear by satellite navigation, but doubt the learned & the wise astrologers. We blindly trust the weather forecast, but doubt the vaastu science, when asked to turn our lives sailing mast. We constantly talk about liberation and still believe in creed and caste. Let our perspectives get maximized, wake up to deeper realities and get Mickeymized.
Congressman Brian Mast, a Republican from Florida -- who lost Brian Mast legs, by the way, fighting for democracy abroad, although I don't know... about Jake Tapper commitment to it here in the United States.
I have been briefed by the Ohio Department of Public Safety, and the Ohio State Highway Patrol has offered assistance to local law enforcement as Dayton Police investigate this heinous act, i have ordered that flags in Ohio remain at half-mast in honor and memory of the victims who lost Dayton Police lives this morning.
It's basically a virtual mast, so you could imagine surveillance operations, rescue missions at sea or on land, surveillance of large complexes like nuclear power stations.
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- шчогла, мачтаBelarusian
- мачтаBulgarian
- gwernBreton
- palCatalan, Valencian
- stěžeňCzech
- mastDanish
- MastGerman
- κατάρτιGreek
- mastoEsperanto
- mástilSpanish
- hagaBasque
- دکلPersian
- mastoFinnish
- masturFaroese
- mâtFrench
- मस्तूलHindi
- árbocHungarian
- կայմArmenian
- mastizar, mastoIdo
- siglutré, masturIcelandic
- inalberare, alberare, alberoItalian
- תורןHebrew
- マスト, 帆柱Japanese
- ანძაGeorgian
- napparutKalaallisut, Greenlandic
- malusLatin
- tiratūMāori
- катарка, јарболMacedonian
- mastDutch
- oldenNorwegian
- masztPolish
- mastroPortuguese
- catarg, arboreRomanian
- мачтаRussian
- jarbol, јарболSerbo-Croatian
- sťažeň, stožiarSlovak
- jamborSlovene
- fanāSamoan
- mastSwedish
- мачта, щоглаUkrainian
- cột buồmVietnamese
- maatVolapük
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