What's the difference between hast and oast?

Hast


Definition:

  • () 2d pers. sing. pres. of. Have, contr. of havest.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The FSA last month published a report by Professor Gerard Hastings which concluded that advertising to children does have an effect on their food preferences, purchasing behaviour and consumption, and that these effects occur not just at brand level, but also for different types of food.
  • (2) Clearly underwhelmed, Pochettino's haste to board Southampton's flight south was such that he swerved post-match media duties.
  • (3) The democratically elected usually manage to leave with some dignity intact – even if in Britain the removal is often criticised for its humiliating haste.
  • (4) In the article, Hastings wrote: "The sacking of Michael Gove – for assuredly, his demotion from education secretary to chief whip amounts to nothing less – has shocked middle England.
  • (5) This was indicated in the present studies by a close correspondence of observed serum [Ca(++)] values with those predicted by the McLean-Hastings nomogram.
  • (6) This time, despite his wish to strike deals with similar haste, it has been more difficult, with only Asmir Begovic and Radamel Falcao arriving before the opening game.
  • (7) It is believed the tablet was secretly moved to London after its unveiling in a Hastings car park, but no one has spotted it since.
  • (8) Last year, Hastings indicted Gove's boss David Cameron for sucking up to the Germans intolerably over events commemorate the centenary of the start of the first world war.
  • (9) Under its founding president, Hastings Banda, Malawi became conservative internally with controversial diplomatic links – a police state under which civil liberties were heavily curtailed.
  • (10) Other factors frequently associated with incidents were inadequate communication among personnel, haste or lack of precaution, and distraction.
  • (11) At some point in the future (the theory goes) publishers will no longer need to spend a fortune on marketing Max Hastings' next book by lavishing money on Waterstones or in print.
  • (12) You see a cave with a hole.” She recovered thanks to god’s grace and good treatment at the government Hastings hospital, she said, but to her great sadness, her nine-year-old son, Clifford, will not come near her for fear.
  • (13) The peer said he was surprised that shareholders in Hastings and Worldpay had not raised the women issue as one of major concern.
  • (14) Along the coast, Hastings will be attempting to break the record it set last year for the world's largest gathering of pirates ( hastingspirateday.org.uk , 21 July.
  • (15) Most of the cast themselves became cosily ensconced in the establishment with unseemly haste.
  • (16) oxygen pressure in Hastings medium with glucose was localized in the cells of the periphery of the slice.
  • (17) Netflix has been forced to twice raise the amount it charges its 23 million subscribers to watch films, as chief executive Reed Hastings has made clear his determination to bolster the firm's library of content.
  • (18) No Southeastern trains will run into London Bridge or Charing Cross from December 24 to 28, apart from the Hastings service which will be diverted to London Bridge.
  • (19) Some of the 60 local authorities that are fast- tracking the government mortgage rescue scheme: South west: Salisbury, Plymouth, Weymouth South east and London: Tunbridge Wells, Slough, Hastings, Lewisham...#65279;, Westminster East: Basildon, Norfolk Midlands: Northampton, Leicester, Solihull, Warwick, Worcester North west and north east Wirral, Blackpool, Manchester, North Tyneside, Darlington, Middlesbrough Yorkshire and Humber Doncaster, Scarborough, Wakefield • This article was amended on Sunday 21 December 2008.
  • (20) One of those to question the haste with which the hoard is being put on public display is Gurlitt’s cousin, Ute Werner, who legally challenged the will in which he left his collection to the Bern museum.

Oast


Definition:

  • (n.) A kiln to dry hops or malt; a cockle.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) R oasted peanuts – tanner a bag” – the first words I ever heard at Upton Park, on the old North Bank.