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| Käännös | Konteksti |
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| Substantiivit |
| 1. | | konetekniikka, merenkulku |
| 2. | | vanhahtava, merenkulku |
| Muut/tuntemattomat |
| 3. | | |
Määritelmät
Substantiivit
- A tall, slim post or tower, usually tapering upward, used to support, for example, the sails on a ship, flags, floodlights, or communications equipment such as an aerial, usually supported by guy-wires.
- 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.
- In naval tradition, a mast is a non-judicial punishment ("NJP") disciplinary hearing under which a commanding officer studies and disposes of cases involving those in his command.
Verbit
- To supply and fit a mast to a ship
- (of swine and other animals) To feed on forest seed or fruit.
- (agriculture, forestry, ecology, of a population of plants) To vary fruit and seed production in multi-year cycles.
Esimerkit
- 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.
- Oak-mast, and beech, and cornel fruit, they eat.
- Swine under an oak filling themselves with the mast.
- 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.
- Because dipterocarp seeds are winged and spin gracefully as they fall, the dispersal of millions of dipterocarp seeds during a masting event is one of the greatest spectacles that you can see on planet Earth.
Taivutusmuodot