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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