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A tall pole that stands up from the deck of a ship or boat, used to hold up the sails (or, on modern boats, radio and radar equipment). The same word is used for other tall that hold things up high, like a ('the mast') or a radio/phone signal tower — 'a mobile phone mast.'
船桅(船上的桿子);桿柱、天線塔(旗桿、通訊塔等)
原始詞典資料10 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Mastname
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A surname.
mastnoun詞源 1/mɑːst/
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aeronauticsaerospaceaviationA tall, slim post or tower, usually tapering upward, used to support, for example, sails or observation platforms on a ship, the main rotor of a helicopter, flags, floodlights, meteorological instruments, or communications equipment, such as an aerial, usually supported by guy-wires (except in the case of a helicopter).
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governmentmilitarynavalA non-judicial punishment ("NJP"); a disciplinary hearing under which a commanding officer studies and disposes of cases involving those under his command.
mastverb詞源 1/mɑːst/
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To supply and fit a mast to (a ship).
mastnoun詞源 2/mɑːst/
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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.
- She ſhut them ſtraight in ſties; and gaue them meate / Oke-maſt, and beech, and Cornell fruite, they eate, […]
- The Winter comes, and then the falling Maſt, / For greedy Swine, provides a full repaſt.
mastverb詞源 2/mɑːst/
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To feed on forest seed or fruit.
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agriculturebiologybusinessTo produce a very large quantity of fruit or seed in certain years but not others.
- Any individual tree which masted in a generally non-mast year would be subjected to the exclusive attention of the seed predators and so would be selected against.
- 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.
mastnoun詞源 3/mɑːst/
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slangbodybuildinghobbieslifestyleThe anabolic steroid drostanolone propionate, also known as Masteron
mastnoun詞源 4/mɑːst/
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obsoleteball-gamesbilliardsgamesA type of heavy cue, with the broad end of which one strikes the ball.
- Godfrey thus conquered, pretended to lose his temper, curs'd his own ill luck, swore that the table had a cast, and that the balls did not run true, changed his mast, and with great warmth challenged his enemy to double his sum.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。