Mast vs Mode - What's the difference?
mast | mode |
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.
In naval tradition, a mast is a non-judicial punishment ("NJP") disciplinary hearing under which a commanding officer studies and disposes of cases involving those in his command.
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.
* 1955 , (Robin Jenkins), The Cone-Gatherers , Canongate 2012, page 162:
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(of swine and other animals) To feed on forest seed or fruit.
(agriculture, forestry, ecology, of a population of plants) To vary fruit and seed production in multi-year cycles.
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(music) One of several ancient scales, one of which corresponds to the modern major scale and one to the natural minor scale
A particular means of accomplishing something.
* 1855 , Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society (volume 9, page 205)
(statistics) The most frequently occurring value in a distribution
(mathematics, physics) A state of a system that is represented by an eigenfunction of that system.
(computing) One of various related sets of rules for processing data.
(grammar) A verb form that depends on how its containing clause relates to the speaker’s or writer’s wish, intent, or assertion about reality.
As a pronoun mast
is .As a noun mode is
fashion, trend.mast
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) mast, from (etyl) , Irish adhmad.Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
{{der3, foremast , mainmast , masthead , mizzenmast , before the mast}}See also
(other terms) * boom * crow's nest * flagpole * spar * top, maintop, foretop, mizzentop * tower * column * pole * pylon * towerEtymology 2
(etyl) , from West Germanic; probably related to meat.Noun
(en noun)- 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.
- Oak-mast , and beech, and cornel fruit, they eat.
- Swine under an oak filling themselves with the mast .
Verb
(en verb)Anagrams
* ----mode
English
(wikipedia mode)Etymology 1
From (etyl) mode, from (etyl)Noun
(en noun)- What was the mode of entry?
- An effectual and unexpensive mode of Protecting Wall-Trees from Spring-Frosts.
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