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mast
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: mäst, IPA(key): /m??st/
- (US, Canada, Northern England) IPA(key): /mæst/
- Homophone: massed (/mæst/)
- Rhymes: -??st, -æst
- Rhymes: -æst
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 m?lus, Russian ????? (móst, “bridge”), Irish adhmad.
Noun
mast (plural masts)
- (nautical, communication) A tall, slim post or tower, usually tapering upward, used to support, for example, sails on a ship, flags, floodlights, meteorological instruments, or communications equipment, such as an aerial, usually supported by guy-wires. [from 9th c.]
- (naval) A non-judicial punishment ("NJP"); a disciplinary hearing under which a commanding officer studies and disposes of cases involving those under his command. [from 17th c.]
Hyponyms
- (tall, slim post to support the sails on a ship): foremast, mainmast, mizzenmast, topmast
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
mast (third-person singular simple present masts, present participle masting, simple past and past participle masted)
- To supply and fit a mast to (a ship). [from 16th c.]
Translations
See also
Etymology 2
From Old English mæst (“fallen nuts, food for swine”), mæsten (“to fatten, feed”), from West Germanic; probably related to meat.
Noun
mast (plural masts)
- 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. [from 10th c.]
- 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.
- c. 1609, George Chapman, Homer, Prince of Poets [translation of Odyssey]:
Derived terms
- mastless
Translations
Verb
mast (third-person singular simple present masts, present participle masting, simple past and past participle masted)
- (of swine and other animals) To feed on forest seed or fruit.
- (agriculture, forestry, ecology, of a population of plants) To produce a very large quantity of fruit or seed in certain years but not others.
Etymology 3
From French masse, with -t probably after Etymology 1, above.
Noun
mast (plural masts)
- (obsolete, billiards) A type of heavy cue, with the broad end of which one strikes the ball. [18th–19th c.]
- 1751, Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, vol. II, ch. 74:
- Godfrey thus conquered, pretended to lose his temper, curs'd his own ill luck, swore that the table had a cast, and that the balls did not run true, changed his mast, and with great warmth challenged his enemy to double his sum.
- 1751, Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, vol. II, ch. 74:
Related terms
- mast cell
Anagrams
- AMTs, ASTM, ATMs, MTAs, Mats, Stam, amts, mats, stam, tams
Czech
Etymology
From Old Czech mast, from Proto-Slavic *mast?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?mast]
- Hyphenation: mast
- Rhymes: -ast
Noun
mast f
- ointment
Declension
Derived terms
- masti?ka f
Related terms
- mastit
- mastný
- mastnota
Further reading
- mast in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
- mast in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /m?st/
- Hyphenation: mast
- Rhymes: -?st
Etymology 1
From Middle Dutch mast, from Old Dutch *mast, from Proto-Germanic *mastaz.
Noun
mast m (plural masten, diminutive mastje n)
- mast (pole on a ship, to which sails can be rigged)
Derived terms
Descendants
- Afrikaans: mas
- ? Japanese: ???
Etymology 2
From Middle Dutch mast.
Noun
mast m (plural masten, diminutive mastje n)
- mast, fodder for pigs or other animals made up of acorns and beechnuts.
Anagrams
- stam, tams
Estonian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?m?s?t/
Etymology
From either Middle Low German mast or German Mast.
Noun
mast (genitive masti, partitive masti)
- mast
- (card games) suit
- (poker) flush
Declension
Compounds
- mastirida
Descendants
- ? Ingrian: masti
Middle English
Adjective
mast
- Alternative form of mased
Middle French
Etymology
Old French mast
Noun
mast m (plural masts)
- mast (structure found on watercraft)
Descendants
- French: mât
Northern Kurdish
Noun
mast m
- yoghurt
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology 1
From Middle Low German mast (“mast”).
Noun
mast f or m (definite singular masta or masten, indefinite plural master, definite plural mastene)
- mast
Synonyms
- stang
Derived terms
- fokkemast
- stormast
- radiomast
- lysmast
Etymology 2
Alternative forms
- masa, maset
Verb
mast
- past participle of mase
References
- “mast” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Alternative forms
- master (non-standard since 2012)
Etymology
From Middle Low German mast.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /m?st/ (example of pronunciation)
Noun
mast f (definite singular masta, indefinite plural master, definite plural mastene)
- mast
References
- “mast” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old Czech
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *mast?.
Noun
mast f
- ointment
Declension
Related terms
- mazati
- mastný
- mastnost
Descendants
- Czech: mast
Further reading
- “mast”, in Vokabulá? webový: webové hnízdo pramen? k poznání historické ?eštiny [online]?[1], Praha: Ústav pro jazyk ?eský AV ?R, 2006–2020
Old French
Alternative forms
- maste
Etymology
Borrowed from Frankish *mast.
Noun
mast m (oblique plural maz or matz, nominative singular maz or matz, nominative plural mast)
- mast (structure found on watercraft)
Descendants
- Middle French: mast
- French: mât
- Norman: mât
- ? Spanish: maste
- ? Spanish: mástel (spelling influenced by árbol)
- ? Spanish: mástil
- ? Spanish: mástel (spelling influenced by árbol)
- ? Old Portuguese: masto, maste
- Portuguese: mastro, (archaic) masto
- ? Portuguese: mastaréu
- Portuguese: mastro, (archaic) masto
Old Frisian
Alternative forms
- m?st
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *maist, *maistaz. Cognates include Old English m?st and Old Saxon m?st.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?ma?st/
Adjective
m?st
- superlative degree of gr?t
Adverb
m?st
- most
Descendants
- Saterland Frisian: maast
- West Frisian: meast
References
- Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009) An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, ?ISBN, page 28
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *mast? (Russian ????? (mast?), Polish ma??). Compare mazati.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mâ?st/
Noun
m?st f (Cyrillic spelling ?????)
- grease
- ointment
- fat
- lard
- schmaltz
Declension
References
- “mast” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal
Swedish
Etymology
From Middle Low German mast, from Old Saxon *mast, from Proto-West Germanic *mast.
Noun
mast c
- mast, tall slim structure
Declension
Anagrams
- Mats, mats, samt, stam
Zazaki
Noun
mast n
- yoghurt (a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process)
Synonyms
- most
- mhost
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catamaran
English
Etymology
From Tamil ????? (ka??u, “to tie”) + ???? (maram, “tree, wood”).
Pronunciation
- (Canada, US) IPA(key): /?kæ.t?.m???æn/, /?kæ.t?.m???æn/
- (UK) IPA(key): /?kæ.t?.m???æn/, /?kæ.t?.m???æn/
Noun
catamaran (plural catamarans)
- A twin-hulled ship or boat.
- (colloquial, rare, obsolete) A quarrelsome woman; a scold.
- (obsolete) A raft of three pieces of wood lashed together, the middle piece being longer than the others, and serving as a keel on which the rower squats while paddling.
- 1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 90:
- Three or four strange-looking things now came close to our boat, which I understood were called ‘catamarans’, consisting of nothing more than two or three large trees, the trunk part only strongly lashed together, upon which sat two men nearly in a state of nature […] .
- 1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 90:
- (obsolete) An old kind of fireship.
Synonyms
- (twin-hulled ship or boat): twinhull
Hypernyms
- (twin-hulled ship or boat): multihull
Hyponyms
- (twin-hulled ship or boat): AC45, AC72
Coordinate terms
- monohull
- outrigger canoe
Derived terms
- cat (diminutive)
Related terms
- trimaran
Translations
French
Etymology
From Tamil ????? (ka??u, “to tie”) + ???? (maram, “tree, wood”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ka.ta.ma.???/
- Homophone: catamarans
Noun
catamaran m (plural catamarans)
- catamaran, a twin-hulled ship or boat
Further reading
- “catamaran” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Norman
Etymology
Borrowed from English catamaran, from Tamil.
Noun
catamaran m (plural catamarans)
- (Jersey) catamaran
Romanian
Etymology
From French catamaran
Noun
catamaran n (plural catamarane)
- catamaran
Declension
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