(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.
Miss
Definition:
(n.) A title of courtesy prefixed to the name of a girl or a woman who has not been married. See Mistress, 5.
(n.) A young unmarried woman or a girl; as, she is a miss of sixteen.
(n.) A kept mistress. See Mistress, 4.
(n.) In the game of three-card loo, an extra hand, dealt on the table, which may be substituted for the hand dealt to a player.
(v. t.) To fail of hitting, reaching, getting, finding, seeing, hearing, etc.; as, to miss the mark one shoots at; to miss the train by being late; to miss opportunites of getting knowledge; to miss the point or meaning of something said.
(v. t.) To omit; to fail to have or to do; to get without; to dispense with; -- now seldom applied to persons.
(v. t.) To discover the absence or omission of; to feel the want of; to mourn the loss of; to want.
(v. i.) To fail to hit; to fly wide; to deviate from the true direction.
(v. i.) To fail to obtain, learn, or find; -- with of.
(v. i.) To go wrong; to err.
(v. i.) To be absent, deficient, or wanting.
(n.) The act of missing; failure to hit, reach, find, obtain, etc.
(n.) Loss; want; felt absence.
(n.) Mistake; error; fault.
(n.) Harm from mistake.
Example Sentences:
(1) City badly missed Yaya Touré, on international duty at the Africa Cup of Nations, and have not won a league match since last April when he has been missing.
(2) Despite a 10-year deadline to have the same number of ethnic minority officers in the ranks as in the populations they serve, the target was missed and police are thousands of officers short.
(3) Amid the acrimony of the failed debate on the Malaysia Agreement, something was missed or forgotten: many in the left had changed their mind.
(4) He missed the start of the season while rehabbing from last season's ankle injury, played exactly six games with the Los Angeles Lakers before getting hurt again and even if he's healthy he may still sit the game out .
(5) In that respect, it's difficult to see Allen's anthem as little more than same old same old, and it's probably why I ultimately feel she misses the mark.
(6) Moreover, it allows the clinician to be alert towards findings which could be missed when not carefully searched for and which may be useful to raise or strengthen the suspicion of this disease.
(7) The striker missed the whole 2006-07 season but returned to make 35 appearances in 2007-08.
(8) They would say 'Here comes Miss Marple' when I came by."
(9) They have already missed the critical periods in language learning and thus are apt to remain severely depressed in language skills at best.
(10) I have the BBC app on my phone and it updates me, and I saw the wire ‘Malaysian flight goes missing over Ukraine.’ I’m like, well it’s probably the Russians who shot it down.
(11) The type of semantic categories missing from the UMLS consisted mainly of modifier information relating to certainty, degree, and change type of information.
(12) On the other hand, the total number of missing hair cells, irrespective of location, was a good, general indicator of the hearing capacity in a given ear.
(13) They said it shows Bergdahl, now 27, in poorer health than previous footage taken in the years since he went missing in Afghanistan on 30 June 2009.
(14) Phosphoglucomutase 1, an enzyme mapping on the short arms of chromosome 1, is constantly missing in the leukemic cell line K-562 in spite of the presence of three No.
(15) We report a case of popliteal vein obstruction by an osteochondroma, arising from the proximal tibia, in which the diagnosis was initially missed.
(16) the EcoR1 fragment of 8.6 kbp length which contains the oriC region (Marsh and Worcel, 1977; v. Meyenburg et al., 1977; Yasuda and Hirota, 1977) is missing.
(17) In patients with less than 15 diverticula, 3.1% of lesions were missed, while in those with more than 15 diverticula, 20.4% of tumors were undetected.
(18) 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.
(19) Thirty-eight bodies have been removed from the mass graves, but DNA tests have shown that none is that of a missing student.
(20) The interplay of policies and principles to which Miss Nightingale subscribed, the human frailty of one of her women, Miss Nightingale's illness, and the confusion and stress which characterized the Crimean War are discussed.