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Masters

noun

1.

United States poet (1869-1950). Synonym: Edgar Lee Masters.

Master

noun

1.

An artist of consummate skill. Synonym: maestro. "One of the old masters"

2.

A person who has general authority over others. Synonyms: lord, overlord.

3.

A combatant who is able to defeat rivals. Synonyms: superior, victor.

4.

Directs the work of others.

5.

Presiding officer of a school. Synonyms: headmaster, schoolmaster.

6.

An original creation (i.e., an audio recording) from which copies can be made. Synonyms: master copy, original.

7.

An officer who is licensed to command a merchant ship. Synonyms: captain, sea captain, skipper.

8.

Someone who holds a master's degree from academic institution.

9.

An authority qualified to teach apprentices. Synonym: professional.

10.

Key that secures entrance everywhere. Synonyms: master key, passe-partout, passkey.

verb

(past & past part. mastered; pres. part. mastering)

1.

Be or become completely proficient or skilled in. Synonym: get the hang.

2.

Get on top of; deal with successfully. Synonyms: get over, overcome, subdue, surmount.

3.

Have dominance or the power to defeat over. Synonym: dominate. "The methods can master the problems"

4.

Have a firm understanding or knowledge of; be on top of. Synonym: control.

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"Masters" Quotes from Famous Books

... importance, for it enabled the Turks to become masters of the inland sea. In 1492 the greater part of the Moors—the descendants of the Arab conquerors of Spain—were expelled from the Peninsula by the conquest of Granada. This event was hailed with joy throughout Christendom, but it had an unexpected and terrible consequence. ...

— A History of Sea Power • William Oliver Stevens and Allan Westcott

... vnlesse we imitate euerything that our fellowes doe, and so prooue our selues capable of euerything whereof they are capable, like Apes, counterfeiting the maners of others, to our owne destruction.[E] For let one or two of the greatest Masters of Mathematickes in any of the two famous Vniuersities, but constantly affirme any cleare day, that they see some strange apparition in the skies: they will I warrant you be seconded by the greatest part of the Students in that profession: So loath ...

— A Counter-Blaste to Tobacco • King James I.

... had not ostensibly abandoned their religion. The people clung to it thinking that their masters and ...

— The Way We Live Now • Anthony Trollope

... soon to be finished, chapters generally beginning with the Yankee's impression of the curious country and its people, ending with the battle of the Sun-belt, when the Yankee and his fifty-four adherents were masters of England, with twenty-five thousand dead men lying about them. He gave this at West Point, including the chapter where the Yankee has organized a West Point of his own in ...

— Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete - The Personal And Literary Life Of Samuel Langhorne Clemens • Albert Bigelow Paine

... Cominius: Leave nothing out for length, and make us think Rather our state's defective for requital Than we to stretch it out.—Masters o' the people, We do request your kindest ears; and, after, Your loving motion toward the common body, To yield ...

— The Tragedy of Coriolanus • William Shakespeare [Collins edition]

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