different between kast vs vast

English

Etymology

From Dutch kast, from Middle Dutch caste (“chest”), from Old Dutch *casto (“chest, reservoir”), from Proto-West Germanic *kast?.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -æst

Noun

kast (plural kasts or kasten)

1. A type of traditional cupboard produced by Dutch settlers in New York and New Jersey in the 18th and 19th centuries

Anagrams

• AKST, askt, kats, skat, task

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse kast, verbal noun to kasta (“throw”).

Noun

kast n (singular definite kastet, plural indefinite kast)

1. throw

Declension

Related terms

• give sig i kast med
• opkast
• indkast
• udkast

Verb

kast

1. imperative of kaste

References

• “kast” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch caste (“chest”), from Old Dutch *casto, from Proto-West Germanic *kast? (“chest, reservoir”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?st/
• Hyphenation: kast
• Rhymes: -?st

Noun

kast f (plural kasten, diminutive kastje n)

1. cupboard, closet, wardrobe

Derived terms

Descendants

• Afrikaans: kas
• ? Indonesian: kas
  • ? Ternate: kas
• ? Papiamentu: kashi (from the diminutive)
• ? Sranan Tongo: kasi

Anagrams

• stak

Estonian

Noun

kast (genitive kasti, partitive kasti)

1. box, chest, crate

Declension

Hungarian

Etymology

kas +? -t

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?k??t]
• Hyphenation: kast

Noun

kast

1. accusative singular of kas

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse kast, verbal noun to kasta (“throw”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?ast/
• Rhymes: -ast

Noun

kast n (genitive singular kasts, nominative plural köst)

1. throw
2. fit, seizure

Declension

Livonian

Alternative forms

• (Courland) kastõ

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *kastadak.

Verb

kast

1. water
2. wet

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Old Norse kast

Noun

kast n (definite singular kastet, indefinite plural kast, definite plural kasta or kastene)

1. throw

Derived terms

Related terms

• kaste (verb)

Etymology 2

Verb

kast

1. imperative of kaste

References

• “kast” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse kast

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?st/

Noun

kast n (definite singular kastet, indefinite plural kast, definite plural kasta)

1. throw (act of throwing something)

Derived terms

Verb

kast

1. imperative of kasta and kaste

References

• “kast” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse kast, verbal noun to kasta (“throw”).

Pronunciation

Noun

kast n or c

1. throw; the flight of a thrown object
2. caste; an Indian hereditary social class

Declension

Derived terms

• uppkast
• nedkast
• inkast
• utkast

See also

• kasta

Anagrams

• akts, taks

English

Etymology

From Middle French vaste, from Latin vastus (“void, immense”). Doublet of fada.

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: väst, IPA^(key): /v??st/
• (US) IPA^(key): /væst/
• Rhymes: -??st

Adjective

vast (comparative vaster or more vast, superlative vastest or most vast)

1. Very large or wide (literally or figuratively).

2. Very great in size, amount, degree, intensity, or especially extent.
3. (obsolete) Waste; desert; desolate; lonely.

Translations

Noun

vast (plural vasts)

1. (poetic) A vast space.
   • 1608, William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale, I.i

     they have seemed to be together, though absent, shook hands, as over a vast, and embraced, as it were, from the ends of opposed winds.

Derived terms

Anagrams

• ATVs, VSAT, tavs, vats

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin v?stus.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?vast/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?bast/

Adjective

vast (feminine vasta, masculine plural vasts or vastos, feminine plural vastes)

1. vast, wide

Related terms

• vastitud

Further reading

• “vast” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “vast” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “vast” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “vast” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /v?st/
• Hyphenation: vast
• Rhymes: -?st

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch vast, from Old Dutch fast, from Proto-Germanic *fastuz.

Adjective

vast (comparative vaster, superlative meest vast or vastst)

1. firm, fast, tight
2. fixed, not moving or changing

3. stuck, unable to get out

4. (chemistry) in the solid state

5. (botany) perennial

6. (of a telephone) using a landline

Inflection

Derived terms

Descendants

• Afrikaans: vas

Adverb

vast

1. surely, certainly

   Synonym: zeker

2. (informal, sarcastically) sure, yeah, right

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

vast

1. first-, second- and third-person singular present indicative of vasten
2. imperative of vasten

Estonian

Etymology

Of Finno-Mordvinic or Finno-Volgaic origin. Cognate to Finnish vasta, Votic vassa, Northern Sami vuostá, Erzya ??????? (vastoms, “to meet; to receive”), Moksha ????? (vasta, “place; distance”) and possibly Western Mari ???????? (?aštareš, “against; across”).

Adverb

vast

1. maybe, possibly
2. recently, just, now

Derived terms

References

Livonian

Etymology

Akin to Finnish vasten

Preposition

vast

1. against

Ludian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *vasta.

Noun

vast

1. bundle (of switches for the sauna)

Romani

Etymology

Perhaps from Sanskrit ???? (hásta), from Proto-Indo-Aryan *??ástas, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *???ástas, from Proto-Indo-European *??és-to- (“hand”) < *??es-. Compare Punjabi ??? (hatth), Hindi ??? (h?th), Bengali ??? (hat); compare also Persian ???? (dast).

Noun

vast m (plural vasta)

1. (anatomy) hand

Romanian

Etymology

From French vaste, from Latin vastus.

Adjective

vast m or n (feminine singular vast?, masculine plural va?ti, feminine and neuter plural vaste)

1. vast

Declension

Related terms

• vastitate

Veps

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *vasta.

Noun

vast

1. bundle (of switches for the sauna)