What's the difference between leet and masterful?

Leet


Definition:

  • (obs. imp.) of Let, to allow.
  • (n.) A portion; a list, esp. a list of candidates for an office.
  • (n.) A court-leet; the district within the jurisdiction of a court-leet; the day on which a court-leet is held.
  • (n.) The European pollock.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Perhaps if people don't understand trolling, or have never heard of 4chan, or don't know their leet from their noob, they should be safely ignored.
  • (2) Photos of portreeves wearing the gold chain of office recall the status of this former parliamentary borough and of earlier manorial days when a leader was elected at the court leet each October.
  • (3) Some favourite nature words: aftermath the first growth of grass in a field after it has been cut (English, regional) coire high, scooped hollow on a mountainside, usually cliff-girt (Gaelic) didder of a patch of bog or marsh; to quiver as a walker approaches it (East Anglia) eawl-leet dusk, lit.

Masterful


Definition:

  • (a.) Inclined to play the master; domineering; imperious; arbitrary.
  • (a.) Having the skill or power of a master; indicating or expressing power or mastery.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Once the normal variations are mastered, appreciation of retinal, choroidal, optic nerve, and vitreal abnormalities is possible.
  • (2) There’s a fine line between pushing them to their limits and avoiding injury, and Alberto is a master at it.
  • (3) At the masters level, efforts are generally directed at utilization and evaluation of research more than design and implementation.
  • (4) He loved that I had a politics degree and a Masters.
  • (5) Learn from the masters The best way to recognise a good shot is to look at lots of other photographs.
  • (6) We’re all very upset right now,” said Daniel Ray, 24, in his third year of the divinity master’s degree program.
  • (7) The fitting element to a Cabrera victory would have been thus: the final round of the 77th Masters fell on the 90th birthday of Roberto De Vicenzo, the great Argentine golfer who missed out on an Augusta play-off by virtue of signing for the wrong score.
  • (8) The four members of the committee are all masters of wine, and the chairman is a retired diplomat, Sir David Wright.
  • (9) The master unit is probably present in all seven pairs.
  • (10) Examination of the role of the public health officer indicates that registered nurses with a master's degree in public health have, in many cases, more training and experience than physicians to function effectively in this role.
  • (11) The technique is readily mastered by any urologist experienced in endoscopic surgery.
  • (12) Here, the balance of power is clear: the master is dominating the servant – and not the other way around, as is the case with Google Now and the poor.
  • (13) Unions warned it could lead to a system where civil servants were loyal to their political masters rather than the taxpayer.
  • (14) Though there will be an open competition, the job is expected to go to Lord Dyson, who will step down from the supreme court to become master of the rolls.
  • (15) I can’t think about retiring,” said Miyazaki, who will compete in the Japanese masters championships next month.
  • (16) Each health educator would receive an adjunct appointment at the health-grant university and would be required to participate in special training sessions and to master progressive health education strategies.
  • (17) Part of the problem is that today's science is taking human capabilities to master nature to new levels.
  • (18) For Tóibín, it is the third time on the Booker shortlist following The Blackwater Lightship in 1999 and The Master in 2004.
  • (19) My immediate suspicion is that the pupil is taking the same course as the master, though I accept it is a large thesis to hang on beige furnishings.
  • (20) He will only be able to satisfy all the expectations if he masters, by virtue of his training and experience, the art of setting up a treatment plan with priorities.

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