(n.) A master in any art, especially in music; a composer.
Example Sentences:
(1) London-born, his accent already has a touch of that strange, trans-continental maestro-speak that Simon Rattle perfected a few years ago.
(2) Even a fully qualified "barista maestro" responsible for training junior baristas at a London branch of Costa Coffee earns a maximum of £7.15 per hour (plus some bonuses and incentives), compared with the £8.55 estimated by the Greater London Authority as a living wage (or £7.45 elsewhere).
(3) Jorge, the island's plumber, fado singer and domino maestro explains the insular philosophy to tourism.
(4) For the first time in a generation, there's hardly a weak link in any of the relationships between the maestros and their orchestras: the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra under Sakari Oramo and now Andris Nelsons; the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra with Kirill Karabits; the Hallé with Mark Elder; the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic with Vasily Petrenko; the Northern Sinfonia with Thomas Zehetmair.
(5) Just as we finished the session, the Maestro called me over.
(6) Thirty minutes with the maestro will not be 29 minutes or 31 minutes.
(7) Despite his gaffe-prone nature and warnings to American travelers to stay away from planes , Biden is, by many accounts, a foreign policy maestro.
(8) By the time Porter was choosing the final players who will dress against Bayern Munich on 6 August, the commissioner had already put the Timbers' maestro in the All-Star squad.
(9) But after a flurry of speculation about the return of the political maestro – which Blair set off himself by responding "sure" to the Evening Standard's question about whether he would like a further prime ministerial term – the survey also asked what voters would do if he were back in the running.
(10) The dining room of our local college is packed with Eames Eiffel chairs while children at the airport get to spill their meals on high chairs designed by Danish design maestro Arne Jacobsen.
(11) Designed by Japanese architect Kengo Kuma , maestro of the V&A's troubled Dundee outpost project , the new home for the Regional Contemporary Art Fund is clad in a shimmering cloud of angled glass panels.
(12) The closest we come is when Hitchcock stands in the lobby outside the premiere, faux-conducting Bernard Hermann's slashing violins; he has a combination of a maestro's manual flourishes and a murderer's manic stabbing motions as the audience inside wails and howls its way through the shower scene.
(13) "I got a call from Maestro Abreu," he tells me through a translator, "who told me that in two weeks, I would be conducting Mahler's Second Symphony!
(14) President Reagan replaced Volcker with Alan Greenspan – who Wall Street dubbed "the maestro" – in 1987, because, despite the success of his monetary policies, he was sceptical about Reagan's plans to unfetter the financial sector from regulation, a cause Greenspan enthusiastically embraced.
(15) I think I lost twice against Toni.” His audience began to rack their brains for the Latin maestro who had got the better of him.
(16) Look for the Maestro del Gusto (Master of Taste) sign of quality outside delicatessens, eateries and bars.
(17) The problem with that question is it overlooks the fact these are footballers who have already made their reputations when the heat of the battle is at its most intense – greats of our time such as Xavi, the maestro who made more passes than Arsenal's entire midfield when Barcelona dismantled Arsène Wenger's team in the Champions League, or Andrés Iniesta, a player who gives the impression of being in love with the ball.
(18) Because every football match should have at least one free-kick maestro just as every city should have at least one court and concert hall, ideally to be used in conjunction with each other.
(19) "Maestro Abreu knew all along what he was creating and what it could achieve."
(20) The opera house's orchestra has been playing funeral marches to an empty theatre in honour of its most significant figures since the death of Arturo Toscanini, the great Italian maestro, in 1957.
Magister
Definition:
(n.) Master; sir; -- a title of the Middle Ages, given to a person in authority, or to one having a license from a university to teach philosophy and the liberal arts.
Example Sentences:
(1) The iguanids, Sceloporus magister and S. occidentalis, have typical "iguanid type" papillae with central short-ciliated unidirectional hair cell segments and apical and basal long-ciliated bidirectional hair cell segments.
(2) Serum ecdysteroids in C. magister females generally showed a monotonic pattern during brooding.
(3) The deduced mature PDH amino acid sequence is identical to those of Uca pugilator and Cancer magister, previously determined by Edman degradation.
(4) A comparison of the numbers of binding sites recognized by [125I]4IQNB and l-[3H]QNB in nervous tissue of three invertebrate species indicated that in Aplysia and Cancer magister (crab) ganglia membranes the two radioligands labeled comparable numbers of binding sites; however, in Pleurobranchaea membranes l-[3H]QNB recognized only a subpopulation (8-10%) of the total number of [125I]4IQNB binding sites.
(5) Edible West Coast crabs (Cancer magister and C. antennarius) were contaminated with bacteriophage and then held in a chilled or frozen state.
(6) Twenty bacteriophages active against Vibrio parahaemolyticus and agar-digesting vibrios, isolated from oysters (Crassostrea gigas) and Dungeness crab (Cancer magister) and by induction of a lysogenic agar digester, were tested as to their host range.
(7) Studies have been made of the interaction of 13 onium reversible inhibitors with cholinesterase from the visual ganglia of the squid B. magister from various habitats (Kurile Islands, Olyutorsk-Navarin and Navarin-Alaskan regions).
(8) The authors at the same time state the hypothesis that Søren Kierkegaaard's description of Magister Adler actually might be a disguised self portrait.
(9) Vatican expert Sandro Magister told AFP there was unlikely to be any official condemnation of Moretti's film.
(10) C. magister embryos displayed a biphasic pattern of ecdysteroid fluctuation during development; titers decreased until mid embryogenesis and then increased and peaked prior to hatching.
(11) L-Lactate raises the oxygen affinity of Cancer magister hemocyanin.
(12) Three crustaceans, Scyllus serratus, Cancer magister and Acetes sibogae together with a mollusc, Cryptochiton stelleri, have been investigated.
(13) Lethal and sublethal responses to the herbicides 2,4-D, DEF, propanil, and trifluralin of various life history stages of the Dungeness crab, Cancer magister, were examined to estimate maximum acceptable toxicant concentrations (MATC) of each compound for this species.
(14) Edible West Coast crabs (Cancer magister and Cancer antennarius), when in seawater contaminated with coliphage T4, were found to accumulate high titers of this virus.
(15) These data reveal intraspecific polymorphism in B. magister from the Bering Sea.
(16) A leukemia characterized by the proliferation of undifferentiated hematopoietic stem cells is described from a desert spiny lizard (Sceloporus magister).
(17) The P50 of Cancer Magister hemocyanin in hemolymph was 40.0 mm at 25 degrees C, nmax = 3.9; at 14 degrees C, 15.0 mm and 3.4; and at 10 degrees C. 10.2 mm and 3.3.
(18) The sequence of grasshopper PDF shows 78% homology with beta-PDH (from the crabs U. pugilator and Cancer magister) and 50% homology with alpha-PDH (from the prawn Pandalus borealis).
(19) The microorganisms in Dungeness crabmeat (Cancer magister) and Pacific oysters (Crassostrea gigas) were identified by the replica-plating and computer analysis method.
(20) Aerobic, heterotropic microorganisms of Dungeness crab (Cancer magister) were isolated from raw crab, cooked crab, crab meats obtained during commercial processing, and from retail crab meat samples.