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What is the difference between pole and mast?

pole | mast |

As nouns the difference between pole and mast

is that pole is originally, a stick; now specifically, a long and slender piece of metal or (especially) wood, used for various construction or support purposes while mast is 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.

As verbs the difference between pole and mast

is that pole is to propel by pushing with poles, to push with a pole while mast is to supply and fit a mast to a ship.

As an initialism MAST is

initialism for military antishock trousers; inflatable trousers that apply pressure to the inferior half of a patient's body to decrease bloodloss and prevent the onset of shock similar to a tourniquet.

pole

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) pole, pal, from (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)
  • Originally, a stick; now specifically, a long and slender piece of metal or (especially) wood, used for various construction or support purposes.
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  • (angling) A type of basic fishing rod.
  • A long fiberglass sports implement used for pole-vaulting.
  • (slang, spotting) A telescope used to identify birds, aeroplanes or wildlife.
  • (historical) A unit of length, equal to a perch (¼ chain or 5½ yards).
  • (auto racing) Pole position.
  • (analysis) a singularity that behaves like \frac{1}{z^n} at z = 0
    • Synonyms
    * See also

    Antonyms

    * (analysis) root, zero
    Derived terms
    (terms derived from pole) * flagpole * maypole * poleaxe * pole vault

    Verb

    (pol)
  • To propel by pushing with poles, to push with a pole.
    • Huck Finn poled that raft southward down the Mississippi because going northward against the current was too much work.
  • To identify something quite precisely using a telescope.
    • He poled off the serial of the Gulfstream to confirm its identity.
  • To furnish with poles for support.
    • to pole beans or hops
  • To convey on poles.
    • to pole hay into a barn
  • To stir, as molten glass, with a pole.

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) pole, .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Either of the two points on the earth's surface around which it rotates; also, similar points on any other rotating object.
  • A point of magnetic focus, especially each of the two opposing such points of a magnet (designated north and south).
  • (geometry) A fixed point relative to other points or lines.
  • (electricity) A contact on an electrical device (such as a battery) at which electric current enters or leaves.
  • (complex analysis) For a meromorphic function f(z): a point a for which f(z) \rightarrow \infty as z \rightarrow a.
    • The function f(z) = \frac{1}{z-3} has a single pole at z = 3 .
  • (obsolete) The firmament; the sky.
  • * Milton
    • shoots against the dusky pole
    Antonyms
    * (complex analysis) zero
    Derived terms
    * polar * polarity * dipole * monopole * north pole * south pole * poles apart * polestar, pole star * pole vault

    Verb

    (pol)
  • To induce piezoelectricity in (a substance) by aligning the dipoles.

    • Anagrams

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    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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    • Related terms

    * mast cell

    Anagrams

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