(n.) A vessel having (so many) masts; -- used only in compounds; as, a two-master.
(n.) A male person having another living being so far subject to his will, that he can, in the main, control his or its actions; -- formerly used with much more extensive application than now. (a) The employer of a servant. (b) The owner of a slave. (c) The person to whom an apprentice is articled. (d) A sovereign, prince, or feudal noble; a chief, or one exercising similar authority. (e) The head of a household. (f) The male head of a school or college. (g) A male teacher. (h) The director of a number of persons performing a ceremony or sharing a feast. (i) The owner of a docile brute, -- especially a dog or horse. (j) The controller of a familiar spirit or other supernatural being.
(n.) One who uses, or controls at will, anything inanimate; as, to be master of one's time.
(n.) One who has attained great skill in the use or application of anything; as, a master of oratorical art.
(n.) A title given by courtesy, now commonly pronounced mister, except when given to boys; -- sometimes written Mister, but usually abbreviated to Mr.
(n.) A young gentleman; a lad, or small boy.
(n.) The commander of a merchant vessel; -- usually called captain. Also, a commissioned officer in the navy ranking next above ensign and below lieutenant; formerly, an officer on a man-of-war who had immediate charge, under the commander, of sailing the vessel.
(n.) A person holding an office of authority among the Freemasons, esp. the presiding officer; also, a person holding a similar office in other civic societies.
(v. t.) To become the master of; to subject to one's will, control, or authority; to conquer; to overpower; to subdue.
(v. t.) To gain the command of, so as to understand or apply; to become an adept in; as, to master a science.
(v. t.) To own; to posses.
(v. i.) To be skillful; to excel.
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.
Schoolmaster
Definition:
(n.) The man who presides over and teaches a school; a male teacher of a school.
(n.) One who, or that which, disciplines and directs.
Example Sentences:
(1) In Herbert Ross's Goodbye Mr Chips (1969), based on the Terence Rattigan stage play, he won hearts as well as minds with a tender performance as the shy schoolmaster who falls in love with Petula Clark, and in 1972 he gave an extraordinary turn in a cult movie rarely revived now, Peter Medak's The Ruling Class, in which he played a young man who succeeds to an earldom after the ageing incumbent dies in an auto-erotic strangling incident, and reveals that he believes himself to be Jesus Christ.
(2) Chris Keates, the general secretary of the National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers, said: “Had the review body not been constrained by the arbitrary pay cap imposed by the government, there is no doubt that it would have been recommending a pay uplift higher than 1% for teachers.” Kevin Courtney, acting general secretary of the National Union of Teachers (NUT), said it was “shameful” that Morgan had failed to address the STRB’s concerns over staff shortages.
(3) Chris Keates, general secretary of the National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers, said: "It's what lies behind the figures, rather than the figures themselves, which should be the focus of attention.
(4) In another age, he might have become a schoolmaster or a colonial civil servant.
(5) Or Johnson, E – said, with accompanying admonitory finger-wagging and in a schoolmasterly tone by tweeters, emailers, etc up until that last, goal-scoring moment.
(6) For 10 years, Rolfe was a provincial schoolmaster and would-be Roman Catholic priest.
(7) He contributed to two more Granada anthologies, Nightingale's Boys (1975) exploring an old schoolmaster's reunion with a succession of former pupils, and Red Letter Day (1976), the challenge of which title provoked an incestuous comic masterpiece from Rosenthal, Ready When You Are, Mr McGill, in the same year.
(8) Graham Chapman recalled Davies as "not a very human person … if you made a mistake of any kind, any sort of pause in speech, he would treat you rather as if he was a schoolmaster".
(9) His schoolmaster's voice, formal and clipped, softens at last into something approaching bemusement.
(10) To lecture China like a schoolmaster and with a sense of superiority is not acceptable.
(11) With his father standing on the steps in his corner, clapping impatiently like a schoolmaster, Eubank swished air way too often in the first five rounds.
(12) Chris Keates, general secretary of the National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers, couches her remarks in broad political terms – she's due to have her first official meeting with Wilshaw later this week.
(13) "I'm one of those people who was told by schoolmasters that he liked the sound of his own voice," he has said.
(14) A schoolmasterly, sometimes even hectoring, campaigner known as Sascha in reference to his Russian roots, he led the Greens from 1997 to 2008, turning the party into the country’s fourth biggest political force and stepping down only after elections in which it lost votes for the first time in a decade.
(15) After Makerere University, in Kampala, he taught for three years, admitting, later in life, that he was a schoolmaster by choice and a politician by accident.
(16) If it fails to do so, the NUT will proceed with its ballot and – based on the combative mood in Harrogate – go ahead even without support from its fellow teaching trade union, the more moderate NASUWT (National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers).