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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mast/#m1)

2) A mast is a tall pole or tower that holds a flag, an aerial or radio and phone equipment. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mast/#m2)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mast/#x1)
- A seagull sat on top of the mast. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mast/#x2)
- The flag was flying at half mast. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mast/#x3)
- A new phone mast was built on the hill. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mast/#x4)
- The storm broke the ship's mast. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mast/#x5)
- The lookout climbed to the top of the mast. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mast/#x6)
- She could see the men clinging to the masts. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mast/#x7)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/35-phones-and-how-a-call-travels/4/)
- [Of cypress-trees from Senir have they fashioned all thy planks; they have taken cedars from Lebanon to make masts for thee.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.691/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «mast» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mast/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.