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master Definition

mas·ter (mas′tər, mäs′-)

noun

  1. a man who rules others or has control, authority, or power over something; specif.,
    1. a man who is head of a household or institution
    2. an employer
    3. one who owns a slave or an animal
    4. the captain of a merchant ship
    5. the one that excels in a contest, skill, etc.; victor or superior
    6. Chiefly Brit. a male schoolteacher or tutor
    7. a person whose teachings in religion, philosophy, etc. one follows or professes to follow
    8. Jesus Christ: with our, the, etc.
  2. something regarded as having control, power, etc.
  3. a person very skilled and able in some work, profession, science, etc.; expert; specif.,
    1. a highly skilled workman or craftsman qualified to follow his or her trade independently and, usually, to supervise the work of others
    2. an artist regarded as great
    3. Games, Sports a person recognized as having achieved the highest degree of skill chess master, golf master
  4. a title variously applied to
    1. Archaic any man or youth: now superseded by the variant Mister, usually written Mr. when placed before the name
    2. a boy regarded as too young to be addressed as Mr.
    3. a man who heads some institution, group, activity, or place
    4. in Scotland, the heir apparent of a viscount or baron
    1. a metal matrix or mold made from the original recording and used to produce phonograph records in quantity
    2. a completed tape recording used to produce discs, cassettes, etc. for sale
  6. Law any of several court officers appointed to assist the judge by hearing evidence, reporting on certain matters, etc.

Etymology: ME maistre < OE mægester, magister & OFr maistre, both < L magister, a master, chief, leader, orig., double compar. < base of L magnus, great < IE *me(h)- > much

adjective

  1. being a master
  2. of a master
  3. chief; main; controlling; specif., designating a mechanism or contrivance that controls others or sets a standard or norm a master switch, a master test sheet

transitive verb

  1. to become master of; control, conquer, etc.
  2. Now Rare to rule or govern as master
  3. to become an expert in (an art, science, etc.)
  4. to make a master (sense ) of

master Synonyms

master

modif.

leading, supreme, main; see excellent, major 1, principal.

master Synonyms

master

n.

  1. One who directs others

    chief, leader, governor, ruler, director, lord, overseer, supervisor, superintendent, boss, lord and master*, honcho, sachem, judge, patriarch, chieftain, commander, commandant; see also administrator.

    Antonyms servant*, underling, subject.

  2. A teacher

    instructor, preceptor, mentor; see teacher 1.

  3. One who possesses great skill

    genius, maestro, savant, sage, scientist, past master, champion, prima donna, virtuoso, protagonist, connoisseur, academician, pundit, fellow, doctor, boss*; see also artist 1, 2, scholar 2.

    Antonyms disciple*, beginner, novice.

  4. A supreme being, especially Christ

    supreme being, Christ, Messiah; see god 1, 2, 3.

  5. The source of copies

    original, control, file copy; see copy.

master Synonyms

master

v.

  1. To conquer

    subdue, rule, vanquish; see defeat 1.

  2. To become proficient in

    gain mastery in, understand, comprehend; see learn 1, study 1.

master Law Definition

n

Archaic

  1. A special official appointed by a court to assist it, typically by making findings or rulings pertaining to matters specified by the court, typically, a “master” in divorce or custody, or a “master” to render an accounting; sometimes referred to as a “special master”.
  2. One who has authority over another’s person and services.
master Usage Examples

Adjective modifier

  • acknowledged: For this reason, we look to begin with, at least at the acknowledged masters of the past.
  • undisputed: But the Jamaican is the undisputed master and most talented at the art.
  • grand: Suppose the group was composed of only a few grand masters?

Modifies a noun

  • bedroom: The cottage sleeps 5. The master bedroom is a double with en-suite bathroom.
  • craftsman: Everyone from the office junior to master craftsmen were proud of the label.
  • cylinder: These items are the servo air inlet non-return valve attachment and the push rod seal between the servo and the brake master cylinder.
  • tape: I spent three days listening to the quarter inch master tapes.
  • storyteller: This brilliant homage is the work of a master storyteller at the height of his powers.
  • degree: At the age of 21 Quy moved to London, to study a masters degree in design at the Royal College of Art.

Noun used with modifier

  • harbor: The hut beside the gas lamp on the left was the harbor master 's office.
  • puppet: Did your Socialist party puppet masters say you had to do this?
  • ballet: In 1762 she brought in yet another foreign ballet master, Gasparo Angiolini.
  • chess: Like a chess master, it watches impassively as schemes are hatched and intentions are thwarted.
  • dive: Get some rib practice in before you go and take the advice of the dive masters who are very used to the conditions.
  • slave: If a slave master was converted to Christ it's highly likely that his whole approach would become more gentle.

Possessives

  • degree: Holding a master's degree in mathematics is related to gains in student achievement.

Preposition: of

  • ceremony: He does not wait for an eloquent preacher to act as master of the ceremonies to Him; He introduces Himself.
  • suspense: Alfred Hitchcock is known as a master of suspense.
  • disguise: She is a master of disguise and charms most people with her sexy looks and manners.

Preposition: with

  • en-suite: The accommodation comprises of two bedrooms ( master with en-suite ), separate bathroom/wc, lounge and fitted kitchen.
master Quotes

So long as the law considers all these human beings, with beating heartsand living affections,onlyassomany things belonging tothemasteröso long asthefailure, or misfortune, or imprudence, or death of the kindest owner, may cause them any day to exchange a life of kind protection and indulgence for one of hopeless miseryand toilöso long is it impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best-regulated administration of slavery.

—Stowe, Harriet (Elizabeth) ne¤  e Beecher

The Mountjoy began to move, and soon passed safe through the broken stakes and floating spars.But her brave master was no more. A shot from one of the batteries had struck him; and he died by the most enviable of all deaths, in sight of the city which was his birthplace, which was his home, and which had just been saved by his courage and self-devotion from the most frightful form of destruction.

—1st Baron

Amar es combatir, es abrir puertas, dejar de ser fantasma con un n u¤ mero a perpetua cadena condenado por un amo sin rostro. To love is to battle, to open doors, to cease to be a ghost with a number forever in chains, forever condemned by a faceless master.

—Paz, Octavio

The disciple is not above his master, nor the servant above his lord.

—Bible (NewTestament)

He is a poor disciple who does not excel his master.

—Leonardo daVinci

Speak out, sir, and do not Maister or Campbell meömy foot is on my native heath, and my name is MacGregor!

—Scott, Sir Walter

It was the winter wild While the Heaven born child All meanly wrapped in the rude manger lies; Nature in awe to him Had doffed her gaudy trim With her great Master so to sympathize; It was no season then for her To wanton with the sun, her lusty paramour.

—Milton,John

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself to be my master. I want the full menu of rights.

—Tutu, Desmond Mpilo

In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.

—de Gaulle, Charles

   And boys, be in nothing so moderate as in love of man, a clever servant, insufferable master.

—Jeffers, (John) Robinson

Qualis dominus talis est servus. Like master like man.

—Petronius Arbiter   d.  66

A man ceases to be a beginner in any given science and becomes a master in that science when he has learned that†he isgoing to be a beginner all his life.

—Collingwood, R(obin) G(eorge)

Man has demonstrated that he is master of everythingöexcept his own nature.

—Miller, Henry Valentine

Glory to Man in the highest! for Man is the master of things.

—Swinburne, Algernon Charles

Marriage, n. The state or condition of a community Billings consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.

—Bierce, Ambrose Gwinett

The master minds of all nations, in all ages, have sprung in affluent multitude from the mass of the nation, and fromthemass of thenationonlyönot from its privileged classes.

—Twain, Mark pseudonym of  Samuel Langhorne Clemens

Herren-Moral und Sklaven-Moral. Master morality and slave morality.

—Nietzsche, FriedrichWilhelm

He that would govern others, first should be The master of himself.

—Massinger, Philip

   For man is man and master of his fate.

—Tennyson

   The walls of spiders' legs are made, Well mortised and finely laid; He was the master of his trade It curiously builded; The windows of the eyes of cats, And for the roof, instead of slats, Is covered with the skins of bats, With moonshine that are gilded.

—Drayton, Michael

The church must be reminded that it is not the master or servant of the state, but rather the conscience of the state.

—King, Martin LutherJr

The Master: records prove the title good: Yet figures fail you, for they cannot say How many men whose names you never knew Are proud to tell their sons they saw you play. They share the sunlight of your summer day Of thirty years; and they, with you, recall How, through those well-wrought centuries, your hand Reshaped the history of bat and ball.

—Aristotle

It is the maxim of every prudent master of a family never to attempt to make at home what it will cost him more to makethantobuy.Thetaylordoesnot attempttomakehis ownshoe†All ofthemfind itfor their interestto employ their whole industry in a way in which they have some advantage over their neighbours and to purchase with a part of its produce†whatever else they have occasion for† What is prudence in the conduct of every private family, can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom† Would it be a reasonable law to prohibit the importation of all foreign wines, merely to encourage the making of claret and burgundy in Scotland?

—Smith, Adam

To love one maiden only, cleave to her, And worship her by years of noble deeds, Until they won her; for indeed I knew Of no more subtle master under heaven Than is the maiden passion for a maid, Not only to keep down the base in man, But teach high thought, and aimable words And courtliness, and the desire of fame, And love of truth, and all that makes man.

—Tennyson

If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don't deal in lies, Or being hated, don't give way to hating, And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise; If you can dreamöand not make dreams your master; If you can thinköand not make thoughts your aim, If you can meet withTriumph and Disaster And treat those two imposters just the same.

—Kipling, (Joseph) Rudyard

Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love; Where there is injury, pardon; Where there is doubt, faith; Where there is despair, hope; Where there is darkness, light; Where there is sadness, joy. O divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek To be consoled as to console; To be understood as to understand; To be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive; It is in pardoning that we are pardoned; And it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.

—Franklin, Benjamin

O Virgile! o"   poe'  te! o"   mon ma|"tre divin! OhVirgil! Oh poet! Oh my divine master!

—Hugo,Victor Marie

I'll make my old clothes know who's master. I shall straightaway cashier the hunting-frock, and render my leather breeches incapable. My hair has been in training some time.

—Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

O master doctor, he is past recovery; A lethargy hath seized him.

—Massinger, Philip

And only the Master shall praise us, and only the Master shall blame; And no one shall work for money, and no one shall work for fame, But each for the joy of working, and each, in his separate star, Shall draw theThing ashesees It for the God of Things as They are!

—Kipling, (Joseph) Rudyard

Our master Caesar is in the tent Where the maps are spread, His eyes fixed upon nothing, A hand under his head. 934 Like a long-legged fly upon the stream His mind moves upon silence.

—Yeats,W(illiam) B(utler)

The poet is a master of the quotidian, of conveying a whole history in two or three lines that point to an exact past drama and intensifya future one.

—Pritchett, Sir V(ictor) S(awdon)

It is a misfortune that necessity has induced men to accord greater licensetothis formidable engine, inorder to obtain liberty, than can be borne with less important objects in view; for the press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.

—Cooper,James Fenimore

Jesus saith unto her,Woman, why weepest thou? whom seekest thou? She, supposing him to be the gardener, saith unto him, Sir, if thou have borne him hence, tell me where thou hast laid him, and I will take him away.Jesus saith unto her, Mary. She turned herself, and saith unto him, Rabboni; which is to say, Master.Jesus saith unto her,Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God.

—Bible (NewTestament)

L'esclave n'a qu'un ma|"tre; l'ambitieux en a autantqu'il ya des gens utiles a'   sa fortune. A slave has but one master; an ambitious person has as many as he needs to make his fortune.

—La Bruye'  re,Jean de

The village master taught his little school; A man severe he was and stern to view; I knew him well, and every truant knew; Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace The day's disasters in his morning face; Full well they laughed, with counterfeited glee, At all his jokes, for manya joke had he.

—Goldsmith, Oliver

If your honour disna ken when ye hae a gude servant, I ken when I hae a gude master, and the deil be in my feet gin I leave ye.

—Scott, Sir Walter

  'The question is,'said Humpty Dumpty,'which is to be masteröthat's all.'

—Dodgson

Hail fellow, well met, All dirty and wet: Find out, if you can, Who's master, who's man.

—Swift,Jonathan

I am a free man, I do not need to copy Petrarch or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry themselves about style and so cease to be themselves. Without a master, without a model, without a guide, without artifice,Igotowork and earnmy living, my well- being, and my fame.What do Ineedmore? Witha goose quill and a few sheets of paper I mock the universe.

—Aretino, Pietro

   To devise is the work of the master, to execute the act of the servant.

—Leonardo daVinci

Truth indeed came once into the world with her divine Master, and was a perfect shape most glorious to look on: but†a wicked race of deceivers†took the virgin Truth, hewed her lovely formintoathousand pieces, and scattered them to the four winds. From that time ever since, the sad friends of Truth, such as durst appear, imitating the careful search that Isis made for the mangled bodyof Osiris, went up and down gathering up limb by limb, still as they could find them.We have not yet found them all†nor ever shall do, till her Master's second coming; he shall bring together every joint and member, and shall mould them into an immortal feature of loveliness and perfection.

—Milton,John