Word Finder - master

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Someone who has control over something or someone.

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The owner of an animal or slave.

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The captain of a merchant ship; a master mariner.

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The head of a household.

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Someone who employs others.

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An expert at something.

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Mark Twain was a master of fiction.

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A tradesman who is qualified to teach apprentices.

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A schoolmaster.

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A skilled artist.

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A man or a boy; mister. See Master.

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A master's degree; a type of postgraduate degree, usually undertaken after a bachelor degree.

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She has a master in psychology.

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A person holding such a degree.

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He is a master of marine biology.

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The original of a document or of a recording.

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The band couldn't find the master, so they re-recorded their tracks.

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The primary wide shot of a scene, into which the closeups will be edited later.

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A parajudicial officer (such as a referee, an auditor, an examiner, or an assessor) specially appointed to help a court with its proceedings.

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The case was tried by a master, who concluded that the plaintiffs were the equitable owners of the property. [...]

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A device that is controlling other devices or is an authoritative source.

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a master database

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A person holding an office of authority, especially the presiding officer.

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(by extension) A person holding a similar office in other civic societies.

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To be a master.

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To become the master of; to subject to one's will, control, or authority; to conquer; to overpower; to subdue.

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To learn to a high degree of proficiency.

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It took her years to master the art of needlecraft.

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To own; to possess.

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(especially of a musical performance) To make a master copy of.

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(usually with in) To earn a Master's degree.

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He mastered in English at the state college.

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Masterful.

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a master performance

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Main, principal or predominant.

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Highly skilled.

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master batsman

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Original.

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master copy

Born to betray any master he served.

The master bedroom had wooden patio doors that opened on a balcony facing east.

They knew that the master would be as good as his word.

You're the master of the underworld.

Something about his flippant answer made her think he would be a master at verbal fencing.

The idea Darkyn voluntarily took a bond to a human when he made a name for himself disobeying his former master … There might be a reason Darkyn hadn't explained it to his mate.

It might have helped if you'd done your homework, master Dean.

Our hearts beat fast, and our hands trembled with excitement, not fear, for we had the hearts of vikings, and we knew that our skipper was master of the situation.

Reluctantly, he walked up the sloping hill and to the door that opened automatically for its master, unlike the portal home.

Shakespeare was undoubtedly the greatest master the English language has ever known and, quite probably, will ever know.

All the attractions of a house were concentrated in one room; it was kitchen, chamber, parlor, and keeping-room; and whatever satisfaction parent or child, master or servant, derive from living in a house, I enjoyed it all.

But no friendly Indian concerned himself about me; nor needed he, for the master of the house was at home.

When my master recalled me from exile, we had a talk.

Who is your master?

The master bath was tidy, so she left the room and pulled the door shut, breathing a long sigh.

Save for the barest rudiments of reading and writing, he tells us that he had no master; yet we find him at Verona in 1521 an esteemed teacher of mathematics.

But when a great scholar like Professor Kittredge interprets what the master said, it is "as if new sight were given the blind."

I meet his servant come to draw water for his master, and our buckets as it were grate together in the same well.

The Grand Master began reading the statutes.

The artist was a master of perspective, causing the viewers to be amazed by his paintings.

Diablo trotted over to welcome his master, nuzzling and nickering.

It was silly and sentimental, but she wanted to paint the master bedroom first.

She's no threat to you, master.

For the Crusades of St Louis the chief authorities are Joinville's life of his master (whom he accompanied to Egypt on the Seventh Crusade), and de Nangis' Gesta Ludovici regis.

He tells us that, at this time, God wrought with him as a master with a schoolboy whom he teaches.

Here he consulted Isabella Roser, a lady of high rank and piety, and also the master of a grammar school.

Here, in his thirty-third year, he began to learn Latin, and after two years his master urged him to go to Alcala to begin philosophy.

In 1866 he became professor of moral philosophy in the university of Glasgow, and in 1893 succeeded Benjamin Jowett as master of Balliol.

At last James Hogg said, "It's of no use; all we can do is to go home and tell the master that we have lost his whole flock."

George's brothers knew the master of a trading ship who was getting ready to sail to England.

The boys looked at her and wondered if the master would really be as good as his word.

All around him were the cows of the abbey, some chewing their cuds, and others like their master quietly sleeping.

People play chess, so that object playing the Grand Master must be a person.

Princess Mary was sitting alone in her room, vainly trying to master her agitation.

His hussars were placed along the line in couples and he himself rode along the line trying to master the sleepiness that kept coming over him.

While the Grand Master said these last words it seemed to Pierre that he grew embarrassed.

The Grand Master rapped with his mallet.

Everywhere preparations were made not for ceremonious welcomes (which he knew Pierre would not like), but for just such gratefully religious ones, with offerings of icons and the bread and salt of hospitality, as, according to his understanding of his master, would touch and delude him.

The Emperor, my master... but the sight of the Emperor's eyes bent on him confused him.

He knew that when his master was at the Rostovs' he stayed till midnight.

He was a master... the peasants' affairs first and then his own.

They plead for me, their master, to stop but I never will now that I know what I'm capable of accomplishing.

Claire's crib, not in her nursery, was in the corner of the master bedroom, next to a large king size bed.

My master's reasons were his own.

The bedrooms were on the second floor, the master larger than her old apartment.

We serve a different master.

About 141 he must have become master of Babylonia.

Its political position between 64 and 41 B.C., when Mark Antony became master of the East, is not quite certain.

He would drive them from place to place as his master wished.

When Aesop was about twenty years old his master lost a great deal of money and was obliged to sell his slaves.