(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.
Waster
Definition:
(v. t.) One who, or that which, wastes; one who squanders; one who consumes or expends extravagantly; a spendthrift; a prodigal.
(v. t.) An imperfection in the wick of a candle, causing it to waste; -- called also a thief.
(v. t.) A kind of cudgel; also, a blunt-edged sword used as a foil.
Example Sentences:
(1) Cognitive studies of congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) patients have revealed (1) the presence of an IQ advantage in patients, siblings and parents due to socioeconomic status, genetic, hormonal, or other factors; (2) an IQ disadvantage in salt wasters compared with simple virilizers, probably due to early brain damage secondary to salt-wasting crisis; (3) a possibly increased incidence of learning disabilities, particularly in female patients and particularly for calculation abilities, due to disease-related early androgen exposure; and (4) a possible post-pubertal spatial advantage in CAH women, also due to early androgen exposure.
(2) Simple virilizers are more likely to be learning disabled than salt-wasters (P = .04, one-tailed).
(3) A number of methods of fluoride supplementation are being discussed in this paper and compared to drinking waster fluoridation.
(4) "The boy was tweeting before the game that he's a super time-waster.
(5) The drug, therefore, has been used to facilitate renal waster excretion when severe hyponatremia occurs in the syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone secretion.
(6) His then-girlfriend, film critic and author Antonia Quirke, wrote a memoir, Madame Depardieu and the Beautiful Strangers, in which he appears as a romantic waster, who will definitely not amount to anything, the enormity of this novel notwithstanding.
(7) Photograph: Noah Smith for the Guardian He operates alone but is part of a small, vocal community which uses social media to identify and excoriate alleged water wasters under the hashtags #droughtshaming and #droughtshame .
(8) All these wasters... was that last minute directed by Richard Linklater?
(9) Presumably, this is because some salt-waster patients suffer brain injury from episodes of hypotension and hyponatremia.
(10) How should time-wasters and persistent no-shows be treated – should they just be summarily excluded from accessing services?
(11) The jury at Bristol crown court was told he believed Ebrahimi was a time-waster and serial complainer and let his antipathy towards him affect the way he dealt with his case.
(12) Where are all the undeserving poor , the ones he gleefully holds up as proof that the welfare system is a soft touch for feckless wasters?
(13) The water wasters of Los Angeles are not easily intimidated, it seems.
(14) However, salt-waster patients have a lower IQ (104 vs 117) than simple virilizer patients (P = .005, one-tailed).
(15) Vampire series True Blood was another time-waster – I only gave up when the fairy ring codswallop started up (don’t ask).
(16) Because of this confounding effect on IQ in the salt-waster form of congenital adrenal hyperplasia, the simple virilizer female versus unaffected female siblings reprsents the best test of the hypothesis.
(17) He was actually claiming to be best time waster in the world on Twitter yesterday!
(18) • Our jury prize went to the Russian director Andrei Zvagintsev for his terrific, and intriguingly Chabrol-ish drama Elena, about a woman with a grown-up, deadbeat waster of a son; she is a nurse who is now re-married to the wealthy man whom she nursed back to health.
(19) There have been other great characters, of course – Paul Calf, the Mancunian waster, Tommy Saxondale and Tony Ferrino among them, but few have rivalled Partridge, the gaffe-prone Norfolk chatshow and radio host with catchphrases galore.