mast

«mast» in Mova's school dictionary: a tall pole on a boat that holds the sails — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a mast, masts)

meaning for a pupil

1) A mast is a tall pole on a boat that holds the sails. tree →

2) A mast is a tall pole or tower that holds a flag, an aerial or radio and phone equipment. tree →

sense in the lessons

In stories about ships and pirates, sailors climb the mast. In everyday life, phone masts carry mobile signals. Phrases: "flag at half mast" (lowered a little to show sadness), "nail your colours to the mast" (say firmly what you believe).

examples

• The sailors raised the sail up the mast. tree →
• A seagull sat on top of the mast. tree →
• The flag was flying at half mast. tree →
• A new phone mast was built on the hill. tree →
• The storm broke the ship's mast. tree →
• The lookout climbed to the top of the mast. tree →
• She could see the men clinging to the masts. tree →

note

Countable. "Half mast" (or "half staff" in the USA) means the flag is lowered for a sad event. Not related to "mask" or "must".

In the corpora

• Each mast looks after a patch of land called a cell, which is why Americans say cell phone.
• Of cypress-trees from Senir have they fashioned all thy planks; they have taken cedars from Lebanon to make masts for thee.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «mast» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.