master
IPA: mˈæstɝ
noun
- Someone who has control over something or someone.
- The owner of an animal or slave.
- (nautical) The captain of a merchant ship; a master mariner.
- (dated) A male head of a household.
- Someone who employs others.
- An expert at something.
- A tradesman who is qualified to teach apprentices.
- (dated) A male schoolteacher.
- A skilled artist.
- (dated) A man or a boy; mister. See Master.
- A master's degree; a type of postgraduate degree, usually undertaken after a bachelor degree.
- A person holding such a degree.
- The original of a document or of a recording.
- (film) The primary wide shot of a scene, into which the closeups will be edited later.
- (law) A parajudicial officer (such as a referee, an auditor, an examiner, or an assessor) specially appointed to help a court with its proceedings.
- (engineering, computing) A device that is controlling other devices or is an authoritative source.
- (Freemasonry) A person holding an office of authority, especially the presiding officer.
- (by extension) A person holding a similar office in other civic societies.
- (BDSM) A male dominant.
- (nautical, in combination) A vessel having a specified number of masts.
- Prepended to a boy's name or surname as a (now somewhat formal) form of address.
- A religious teacher, often as an honorific title.
- The title of the head of certain colleges and schools.
- A master's degree.
- A person holding a master's degree, as a title.
- The title of the eldest son of a Scots lord.
- The owner of a slave, in some literature.
- (BDSM) Used as the title of a dominant.
- (Wicca) One of the triune gods of the Horned God in Wicca alongside the Father and Sage and representing a boy or a young man
- (banking) Mastercard
- Short for master key. [A key designed to open a set of several locks; a passkey.]
verb
- (intransitive) To be a master.
- (transitive) To become the master of; to subject to one's will, control, or authority; to conquer; to overpower; to subdue.
- (transitive) To learn to a high degree of proficiency.
- (transitive, obsolete) To own; to possess.
- (transitive, especially of a musical performance) To make a master copy of.
- (intransitive, usually with in) To earn a Master's degree.
adjective
- Masterful.
- Main, principal or predominant.
- Highly skilled.
- Original.
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Examples of "master" in Sentences
- Horn was not unfamiliar with the phrase master plan.
- _master_ to teach the performers is the very point where the matter sticks, there being no such person as a master among them.
- His father, having grown up as the latest in a long line of sailors, earned the title master mariner when Addison was less than a year old.
- Now, before a sensitive, feeling reader gets bent out of shape by my use of the word master in this context, I think that an explanation is in order.
- We were almost entire strangers to each other; for, when I knew him at the house of my old master, it was not as a _master_, but simply as "Captain Auld," who had married old master's daughter.
- The Colonization Society are always reminding us that the _master_ has rights as well as the slave: The Anti-Slavery Society urge us to remember that the _slave_ has rights as well as the master.
- -- "I am master of the children of the parish," said the man; "the children are masters of their mothers, the mothers are rulers of the fathers, and consequently _I am master_ of the whole parish."
- _master_ denotes a relation, that every relation has two terms, that consequently a man cannot be his own master any more than he can be his own father; and that, not owning himself, he may not destroy himself.
- What General Meade wrote in May, We must expect disaster so long as the armies are not under one master mind, 32 Lincoln knew perfectly well, and gladly would he have devolved the military conduct of affairs on one man could he have found that master mind for whom he made a painful quest during almost two years.
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