different between mast vs pike

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: mäst, IPA^(key): /m??st/
• (US, Canada, Northern England) IPA^(key): /mæst/
• Homophone: massed (/mæst/)
• Rhymes: -??st, -æst
• Rhymes: -æst

Etymology 1

From Middle English mast, from Old English mæst (“mast”), from Proto-Germanic *mastaz (“mast, sail-pole”), from Proto-Indo-European *mazdos (“pole, mast”). Cognate with Dutch mast, German Mast, and via Indo-European with Latin m?lus, Russian ????? (móst, “bridge”), Irish adhmad.

Noun

mast (plural masts)

1. (nautical, communication) A tall, slim post or tower, usually tapering upward, used to support, for example, sails on a ship, flags, floodlights, meteorological instruments, or communications equipment, such as an aerial, usually supported by guy-wires. [from 9th c.]
2. (naval) A non-judicial punishment ("NJP"); a disciplinary hearing under which a commanding officer studies and disposes of cases involving those under his command. [from 17th c.]

Hyponyms

• (tall, slim post to support the sails on a ship): foremast, mainmast, mizzenmast, topmast

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

mast (third-person singular simple present masts, present participle masting, simple past and past participle masted)

1. To supply and fit a mast to (a ship). [from 16th c.]

Translations

See also

Etymology 2

From Old English mæst (“fallen nuts, food for swine”), mæsten (“to fatten, feed”), from West Germanic; probably related to meat.

Noun

mast (plural masts)

1. 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. [from 10th c.]
   • c. 1609, George Chapman, Homer, Prince of Poets [translation of Odyssey]:

     She shut them straight in sties, and gave them meat: / Oak-mast, and beech, and cornel fruit, they eat,

   • 1715, Robert South, "A Sermon upon Prov. i.32", Twelve sermons preached at several times, and upon several occasions, page 73:

     they feed and grovel like Swine under an Oak, filling themselves with the Mast, but never so much as looking up

   • 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.

Derived terms

• mastless

Translations

Verb

mast (third-person singular simple present masts, present participle masting, simple past and past participle masted)

1. (of swine and other animals) To feed on forest seed or fruit.
2. (agriculture, forestry, ecology, of a population of plants) To produce a very large quantity of fruit or seed in certain years but not others.

Etymology 3

From French masse, with -t probably after Etymology 1, above.

Noun

mast (plural masts)

1. (obsolete, billiards) A type of heavy cue, with the broad end of which one strikes the ball. [18th–19th c.]
   • 1751, Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, vol. II, ch. 74:

     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.

Related terms

• mast cell

Anagrams

• AMTs, ASTM, ATMs, MTAs, Mats, Stam, amts, mats, stam, tams

Czech

Etymology

From Old Czech mast, from Proto-Slavic *mast?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?mast]
• Hyphenation: mast
• Rhymes: -ast

Noun

mast f

1. ointment

Declension

Derived terms

• masti?ka f

Related terms

• mastit
• mastný
• mastnota

Further reading

• mast in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• mast in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?st/
• Hyphenation: mast
• Rhymes: -?st

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch mast, from Old Dutch *mast, from Proto-Germanic *mastaz.

Noun

mast m (plural masten, diminutive mastje n)

1. mast (pole on a ship, to which sails can be rigged)

Derived terms

Descendants

• Afrikaans: mas
• ? Japanese: ???

Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch mast.

Noun

mast m (plural masten, diminutive mastje n)

1. mast, fodder for pigs or other animals made up of acorns and beechnuts.

Anagrams

• stam, tams

Estonian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?s?t/

Etymology

From either Middle Low German mast or German Mast.

Noun

mast (genitive masti, partitive masti)

1. mast
2. (card games) suit
3. (poker) flush

Declension

Compounds

• mastirida

Descendants

• ? Ingrian: masti

Middle English

Adjective

mast

1. Alternative form of mased

Middle French

Etymology

Old French mast

Noun

mast m (plural masts)

1. mast (structure found on watercraft)

Descendants

• French: mât

Northern Kurdish

Noun

mast m

1. yoghurt

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Middle Low German mast (“mast”).

Noun

mast f or m (definite singular masta or masten, indefinite plural master, definite plural mastene)

1. mast

Synonyms

• stang

Derived terms

• fokkemast
• stormast
• radiomast
• lysmast

Etymology 2

Alternative forms

• masa, maset

Verb

mast

1. past participle of mase

References

• “mast” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• master (non-standard since 2012)

Etymology

From Middle Low German mast.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?st/ (example of pronunciation)

Noun

mast f (definite singular masta, indefinite plural master, definite plural mastene)

1. mast

References

• “mast” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Czech

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *mast?.

Noun

mast f

1. ointment

Declension

Related terms

• mazati
• mastný
• mastnost

Descendants

• Czech: mast

Further reading

• “mast”, in Vokabulá? webový: webové hnízdo pramen? k poznání historické ?eštiny [online]?^[1], Praha: Ústav pro jazyk ?eský AV ?R, 2006–2020

Old French

Alternative forms

• maste

Etymology

Borrowed from Frankish *mast.

Noun

mast m (oblique plural maz or matz, nominative singular maz or matz, nominative plural mast)

1. mast (structure found on watercraft)

Descendants

• Middle French: mast
  • French: mât
• Norman: mât
• ? Spanish: maste
  • ? Spanish: mástel (spelling influenced by árbol)
    • ? Spanish: mástil
• ? Old Portuguese: masto, maste
  • Portuguese: mastro, (archaic) masto
    • ? Portuguese: mastaréu

Old Frisian

Alternative forms

• m?st

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *maist, *maistaz. Cognates include Old English m?st and Old Saxon m?st.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ma?st/

Adjective

m?st

1. superlative degree of gr?t

Adverb

m?st

1. most

Descendants

• Saterland Frisian: maast
• West Frisian: meast

References

• Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009) An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, ?ISBN, page 28

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *mast? (Russian ????? (mast?), Polish ma??). Compare mazati.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mâ?st/

Noun

m?st f (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. grease
2. ointment
3. fat
4. lard
5. schmaltz

Declension

References

• “mast” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal

Swedish

Etymology

From Middle Low German mast, from Old Saxon *mast, from Proto-West Germanic *mast.

Noun

mast c

1. mast, tall slim structure

Declension

Anagrams

• Mats, mats, samt, stam

Zazaki

Noun

mast n

1. yoghurt (a milk-based product thickened by a bacterium-aided curdling process)

Synonyms

• most
• mhost

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /pa?k/
• Rhymes: -a?k

Etymology 1

From Middle English pyke, pyk, pik, pike (“pike; sharp point, iron tip of a staff or spear, pointed toe of an item of footwear; sharp tool; mountain, peak”), from Old English p?c (“pointed object, pick axe”), and Middle French pique (“long thrusting weapon”), from Old French pic (“sharp point, spike”); both ultimately from Proto-Germanic *p?kaz, *p?k? (“sharp point, pike, peak”), related to pick with a narrower meaning.

The word is cognate with Middle Dutch pecke, peke, picke (modern Dutch piek), German Pike, Norwegian pik, and possibly Old Irish p?k. It is a doublet of pique.

The diving or gymnastics position is probably from tapered appearance of the body when the position is executed.

The carnivorous freshwater fish is probably derived from the “sharp point, spike” senses, due to the fish’s pointed jaws.

The verb sense “to quit or back out of a promise” may be from the sense of taking up pilgrim's staff or pike and leaving on a pilgrimage; and compare Middle English p??ken (“to go, remove oneself”) and Old Danish pikke af (“to go away”).

Noun

pike (plural pikes)

1. (military, historical) A very long spear used two-handed by infantry soldiers for thrusting (not throwing), both for attacks on enemy foot soldiers and as a countermeasure against cavalry assaults.
2. A sharp point, such as that of the weapon.
3. A large haycock (“conical stack of hay left in a field to dry before adding to a haystack”).
4. Any carnivorous freshwater fish of the genus Esox, especially the northern pike, Esox lucius.
5. (diving, gymnastics) A position with the knees straight and a tight bend at the hips with the torso folded over the legs, usually part of a jack-knife. [from 1920s]
6. (fashion, dated) A pointy extrusion at the toe of a shoe.
7. (chiefly Northern England) Especially in place names: a hill or mountain, particularly one with a sharp peak or summit.
8. (obsolete) A pick, a pickaxe.
9. (obsolete, Britain, dialectal) A hayfork.
10. (obsolete, often euphemistic) A penis.
11. (historical) A style of shoes with long toes, very popular in Europe in the 14th and 15th centuries.

Synonyms

• (the fish species Esox lucius): see northern pike

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

pike (third-person singular simple present pikes, present participle piking, simple past and past participle piked)

1. (transitive) To prod, attack, or injure someone with a pike.
2. (transitive, intransitive, diving, gymnastics) To assume a pike position.
3. (intransitive, gambling) To bet or gamble with only small amounts of money.
4. (intransitive, Australia, New Zealand, slang) Often followed by on or out: to quit or back out of a promise.

Derived terms

• piker
• pikey

Translations

Etymology 2

Clipping of turnpike (“a toll road, especially a toll expressway; a spiked barrier across a road, originally used to block access to the road until toll had been paid”).

Noun sense 2 (“gypsy, itinerant tramp, or traveller”) and verb sense 2 (“to depart, travel, especially to flee, run away”) may refer to someone frequently using turnpikes, or may be derived from Middle English p??ken (“to go, remove oneself”).

Noun

pike (plural pikes)

1. Short for turnpike.
2. (derogatory, slang) A gypsy, itinerant tramp, or traveller from any ethnic background; a pikey.

Translations

Verb

pike (third-person singular simple present pikes, present participle piking, simple past and past participle piked)

1. (intransitive) To equip with a turnpike.
2. (intransitive, obsolete, Britain, thieves' cant) To depart or travel (as if by a turnpike), especially to flee, to run away.

References

Anagrams

• kepi, kipe

Middle English

Noun

pike

1. Alternative form of pyke

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse píka.

Noun

pike f or m (definite singular pika or piken, indefinite plural piker, definite plural pikene)

1. a girl

Usage notes

Jente is the standard appellation for girl in Norwegian; pike may also be used, though it is seen as somewhat conservative.

Synonyms

• jente

Derived terms

References

• “pike” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p??ke?/ (example of pronunciation)

Noun

pike m (definite singular pikeen, indefinite plural pikear, definite plural pikeane)

1. alternative spelling of piké (“piqué”)