(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.
Sentinel
Definition:
(n.) One who watches or guards; specifically (Mil.), a soldier set to guard an army, camp, or other place, from surprise, to observe the approach of danger, and give notice of it; a sentry.
(n.) Watch; guard.
(n.) A marine crab (Podophthalmus vigil) native of the Indian Ocean, remarkable for the great length of its eyestalks; -- called also sentinel crab.
(v. t.) To watch over like a sentinel.
(v. t.) To furnish with a sentinel; to place under the guard of a sentinel or sentinels.
Example Sentences:
(1) With Air Sentinels in the bedroom and living room for airborne collections, and a Sample Vac for collections from living room carpet and bedroom mattress, immunochemical quantifications of each were made with various radiometric assays with polyclonal and monoclonal antibodies.
(2) Similarly, in all three naturally infected sentinel chickens from Maryland, IgM class antibody was undetectable 1 to 5 weeks after IgM was initially detected.
(3) Ten sentinel pigs placed in the area all developed haemagglutination-inhibition antibodies against Japanese encephalitis and the virus was isolated from the blood of 3.
(4) Specific-pathogen-free leghorn sentinel chickens were vaccinated with Massachusetts (Mass) alone, Mass and JMK, or Mass and Arkansas (Ark) combination live vaccines, or they remained unvaccinated.
(5) BTV serotypes 11 and 17 were initially isolated from nearly all sentinel sheep, goats and dairy calves from late July through September, whereas isolates of 11 and 17 were made from only 2 beef cows and 2 deer in August and September.
(6) The numbers of females captured by both types of traps were significantly correlated with human sentinel collections.
(7) Contaminants were recovered from 10% of Isolator 10, 2.7% of Bactec, and 7.2% of Sentinel bottles.
(8) "Let me assure you that our brave sentinels on the border will address any issue that happens on the border," said the foreign ministry spokesman Syed Akbaruddin.
(9) The paper analyses 50 pairs of sera pre-elevated within the "sentinel" epidemiological surveillance in a population exposed to a high risk at a 2 months interval.
(10) It is more elaborate that the previously described selective biopsies and includes biopsy of all identifiable nodes in the inguinal region, including the sentinel node area.
(11) The Ambulatory Sentinel Practice Network (ASPN) conducted an observational study of pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) in the primary care setting.
(12) No MVE virus was isolated from these mosquitoes, but serum from one of the sentinel chickens contained MVE virus antibodies, indicating the presence of the virus in that region.
(13) Good folks and bad folks Sentinel spokeswoman Ann Marie Dryden said that the company is committed to helping the offenders it supervises fulfill the terms of their probation and leave the criminal justice system.
(14) Sentinel mice were housed in microisolator cages, exposed continuously to soiled bedding and bled at 21 and 42 days for serology.
(15) Seven further virus isolates from sentinel calves at Shambat (Khartoum) confirmed the presence of BTV serotypes 1, 4 and 16, and an untyped EHDV (designated 318) in the Sudan.
(16) Still, in interviews with home-state reporters Monday, Ryan denounced the idea of any Republican launching a third-party or independent candidacy to challenge Trump, telling the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel it “would be a disaster for our party”.
(17) Splenectomized cattle and mature, spleen-intact cattle were used as sentinels in a 4-year study to assess the seasonality of naturally transmitted anaplasmosis.
(18) During heat shock and other forms of physiological stress, heat shock proteins act as intracellular sentinels to recognize malfolded proteins.
(19) Net egg production and numbers of larvae acquired by sentinel mice of each strain were monitored every two weeks.
(20) The Ambulatory Sentinel Practice Network (ASPN) undertook a 100% audit of 226 patients included in a study of spontaneous abortion (SAB).