Sentence examples for term mast from inspiring English sources

The term mast – meaning fruit of the forest trees, such as acorns - is principally used to denote abundant harvests for oak, beech and sweet chestnuts, but the concept is often extended to include especially-fruity yields for other trees and shrubs.

In the 1930s and 1940s, Meher Baba did extensive work with a category of people he termed "masts", who are persons "intoxicated with God".

Both techniques differ in terms of mast cell count (p = 0.0007).

"We're trying out a few crew members and we've been working on quite a few things in terms of the mast, sails and deck changes," Kostecki said, "so it's a great opportunity to test it as a package".

This environmental axis thus splits the dataset into two unequal categories where 29 and 12 years were categorised as poor and good years in terms of beech mast abundance, respectively.

This paper presents an exceptional study for the experimental identification of the dynamic properties of a full-scale guyed mast in terms of its natural frequencies.

Starting at the bow in a two-masted vessel, the masts are termed the foremast and the mainmast; when the aftermast is considerably smaller they are named the mainmast and the mizzenmast.

Protesters opposed to the Burundian president's third term, bring down a telephone mast to construct a barricade in the Ngaragara neighborhood of Bujumbura, on May 21 , 2015

Further research is needed in order to clarify the role of mast cells during term and preterm labor.

In conclusion, secondary transplantations revealed long-term engraftment of aberrant CD25+ mast cells, whereas the pronounced inflammatory phenotype seen in the primary mice was not observed.

Our findings suggested that the CTCM has the effect of a bronchodilator and exerts an anti-inflammatory effect in OVA-sensitized guinea pigs, and it can also stabilize mast cells in terms of the release of histamine and IL-4.