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Mast vs Mastiff - What's the difference?

mast | mastiff |

As a pronoun mast

is .

As a noun mastiff is

a large breed of dog often confused to be part of a type of large dogs the mastiff is a breed of its own that is sometimes referred to as an "english mastiff" other breeds have mastiff in their informal name such as "french mastiff" for dogue de bordeaux or include mastiff in their breed names; tibetan mastiff or neapolitan mastiff all are different breeds as well as the often confused bullmastiff.

mast

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) mast, from (etyl) , Irish adhmad.

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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.
    • Derived terms
    {{der3, foremast , mainmast , masthead , mizzenmast , before the mast}}

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To supply and fit a mast to a ship

    • See also

    (other terms) * boom * crow's nest * flagpole * spar * top, maintop, foretop, mizzentop * tower * column * pole * pylon * tower

    Etymology 2

    (etyl) , from West Germanic; probably related to meat.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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:
    • 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.
  • * (rfdate) Chapman
    • Oak-mast , and beech, and cornel fruit, they eat.
  • * (rfdate) South
    • Swine under an oak filling themselves with the mast .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (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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  • * {{quote-book, title=Forest Diversity and Function: Temperate and Boreal Systems, page=28,
    • books.google.com/books?isbn=3540221913, author=Michael Scherer-Lorenzen, Christian Körner, Ernst-Detlef Schulze, year=2004, passage=However, if this were true, all or most masting' species (e.g., ''Fagus'' and ''Quercus'') in a forest would have to ' mast in synchrony to be effective against generalist herbivores.}}
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    • Related terms

    * mast cell

    Anagrams

    * ----

    mastiff

    English

    (wikipedia mastiff)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A large breed of dog. Often confused to be part of a type of large dogs. The Mastiff is a breed of its own that is sometimes referred to as an "English Mastiff". Other breeds have Mastiff in their informal name such as "French Mastiff" for Dogue de Bordeaux or include Mastiff in their breed names; Tibetan Mastiff or Neapolitan Mastiff. All are different breeds as well as the often confused Bullmastiff.
  • * 1605: , Act III, Scene VI
    • Avaunt, you curs! Be thy mouth or black or white, Tooth that poisons if it bite; Mastiff , greyhound, mongrel grim, Hound or spaniel, brach or him.
  • * 1922, , Vintage Classics, paperback edition, page 98
    • A mastiff lay extended against a battered door.
    (encyclopedic definition)

    Hypernyms

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