Vas vs Vast - What's the difference?
vas | vast |
(anatomy) A vessel or duct transporting any bodily fluid, such as blood, lymph, chyle, or semen.
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 vas and vast
is that vas is a vessel or duct transporting any bodily fluid, such as blood, lymph, chyle, or semen 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
Noun
(vasa)Derived terms
* vas- * vaso- * vasal * vascular * vasculitis * vasectomy * vasiform * vasoconstriction * vasodilation * vasomotor * vas deferens * vas efferens * vasa vasorum ----vast
English
Adjective
(en-adj)- The Sahara desert is vast .
- There is a vast difference between them.
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- the empty, vast , and wandering air