Bast vs Vast - What's the difference?
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Fibre made from the phloem of certain plants and used for matting and cord.
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* 1997 : ‘Egil's Saga’, tr. Bernard Scudder, The Sagas of Icelanders , Penguin 2001, page 145
Very large or wide (literally or figuratively).
Very great in size, amount, degree, intensity, or especially extent.
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(obsolete) Waste; desert; desolate; lonely.
* William Shakespeare, the Life and Death of Richard the Third Act I, scene IV:
(poetic) A vast space.
* 1608': 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. — William Shakespeare, ''The Winter's Tale , I.i
As nouns the difference between bast and vast
is that bast is fibre made from the phloem of certain plants and used for matting and cord while vast is a vast space.As an adjective vast is
very large or wide (literally or figuratively).As an acronym VAST is
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English
(wikipedia)Noun
(en noun)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=At the far end of the houses the head gardener stood waiting for his mistress, and he gave her strips of bass to tie up her nosegay. This she did slowly and laboriously, with knuckly old fingers that shook.}}
- I thought I saw Him in the Long Walk there, by the bed of Nelly Roche, tending a fallen flower with a wisp of bast .
- He had taken along a long bast rope in his sleigh, since it was the custom on longer journeys to have a spare rope in case the reins needed mending.
Anagrams
* (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) ----vast
English
Adjective
(en-adj)- The Sahara desert is vast .
- There is a vast difference between them.
citation, passage=Last spring, the periodical cicadas emerged across eastern North America. Their vast numbers and short above-ground life spans inspired awe and irritation in humans—and made for good meals for birds and small mammals.}}
- the empty, vast , and wandering air