(n.) The position or authority of a master; dominion; command; supremacy; superiority.
(n.) Superiority in war or competition; victory; triumph; preeminence.
(n.) Contest for superiority.
(n.) A masterly operation; a feat.
(n.) Specifically, the philosopher's stone.
(n.) The act process of mastering; the state of having mastered.
Example Sentences:
(1) Somewhat more children of both Head Start and the nursery school showed semantic mastery based on both heard and spoken identification for positions based on body-object relations (in, on, and under) than for those based on object-object relations (in fromt of, between, and in back of).
(2) The level of competency in the diagnosis and treatment of common and emergency disorders needed by nonophthalmologists is assessed and then translated into explicit objectives that specify the levels of mastery to be learned.
(3) But against the backdrop of centuries of “struggle for mastery” in Europe they remain remarkable.
(4) Ideas for further research relating humor to social competence, social cognition, and mastery motivation are discussed.
(5) In Study 3, three forms of experimenter-guided mastery imagery reduced AIDS social anxiety and increased AIDS altruism.
(6) Somewhat more children showed semantic mastery for the warn colors, orange and red, than for the cool colors, blue and green.
(7) The effects of mastery as a mediator of coping and stress are discussed, as well as the advisability of incorporating treatments that specifically address feelings of lack of control over stressful events into chronic pain programs, especially when marital problems are identified.
(8) Also, its relationship to two factors of mental health reported by participants in a multisession experimental intervention to increase personal control and mastery was assessed.
(9) The authors present the results of a one-year study showing equivalent mastery of basic psychiatric knowledge and skills and equally favorable student reactions after psychiatry clerkships on a consultation-liaison service and on other more traditional psychiatry services.
(10) Eventual mastery of the burdensome experience involves reorganization of the individual's "assumptive world," namely of his intrapsychic maps of external reality and his internal system for guiding and motivating his behavior, which have been disorganized by the loss of their anchorage in the ruptured attachment.
(11) These patients may experience delayed mastery of developmental tasks, intimacy, and independence and may have long-term psychological sequelae.
(12) It beat shows with higher ratings, perhaps reflecting that its young fan base had better mastery of the text and online voting.
(13) The occupational adaptation practice model emphasizes the creation of a therapeutic climate, the use of occupational activity, and the importance of relative mastery.
(14) He explores different meanings and arguments on both sides of the controversy and attempts to identify three therapeutic change agents that all schools of therapy share as the basis of their different techniques: affective experiencing, cognitive mastery, and behavioral regulation.
(15) For many items, parents reported earlier skill mastery, but parental and professional estimates eventually converged during adolescence.
(16) Mastery modeling enhanced perceived coping and cognitive control efficacy, decreased perceived vulnerability to assault, and reduced the incidence of intrusive negative thinking and anxiety arousal.
(17) It is provisionally suggested that enhancement of the perseveration represents an innate response to stressful stimuli, but as animals learn mastery over the response contingencies, the persistence in adopting such a response strategy wanes.
(18) Although one response is a paranoidlike reaction, aggression is also displayed directly in an attempt at mastery of the overwhelming frustration and life-threatening aspects of the ghetto.
(19) Power and achievement characteristics reported by the protege to be very important included mastery of concepts and ideas (55.2 per cent) and capacity to work hard (52.1 per cent).
(20) For example, principles of mastery learning, competency-based instruction, performance objectives, a systems approach to instructional design, and the evaluation of instruction as well as the instructional program should help ensure meaningful, relevant training and appropriate, effective instruction.
Overhand
Definition:
(n.) The upper hand; advantage; superiority; mastery.
(a.) Over and over; -- applied to a style of sewing, or to a seam, in which two edges, usually selvedges, are sewed together by passing each stitch over both.
(a.) Done (as pitching or bowling) with the hand higher than the elbow, or the arm above, or higher than, the shoulder.
(adv.) In an overhand manner or style.
Example Sentences:
(1) The enzyme was capable of ligating phi X174 (+) strand DNA to double-stranded oligonucleotides that contained 5'-overhang, 3'-overhand, or blunt ends.
(2) Eight kindergarten classroom teachers with high generic teaching skill competence taught a 6-week overhand throwing unit to the children in their intact classes.
(3) In summary, performance status of the overhand throw by preschool age children can be improved beyond maturational expectations through guided instruction.
(4) Three beam-walking tests (the beam at different heights and angles) and the overhand throw comprised the criterion measures used for assessment of program effectiveness in stability and object projection.
(5) Ulnar neuritis at the elbow is a common entity affecting the athlete especially those involved in overhand sports.
(6) When he snapped Groves’ neck back with a thudding overhand right early in the ninth, it appeared the Londoner was in trouble.
(7) The structure is dominated by a left-handed four-helix bundle with an unusual topology comprising two overhand connections.
(8) These data indicate that the helices of interleukin-4 are arranged in a left-handed four-helix bundle with two overhand connections.
(9) In the first task, darts were thrown overhand at a stationary target.
(10) Using accessible surface contact area as a criterion, the most suitable structures were right handed all antiparallel four-helix bundles with two overhand loop connections.
(11) The young athlete involved in overhand sports is at risk for injury, and must be clinically evaluated and treated differently from the rest of the population.
(12) A depression of the exercised shoulder was found among highly trained tennis players, and in other athletes employing the overhand motion.
(13) I should have got the knockdown but I didn’t.” From the opening bell the fighters circled one another clockwise trading jabs to the head and body, but Jack connected with a sharp right hand upstairs that hurt Groves then followed it up moments later with a heat-seeking overhand right that dumped the Englishman to the canvas.
(14) Stability measures were distance divided by time, and object projection scores were determined by velocity of the overhand throw.
(15) 131 deaf boys and girls were evaluated on development of the overhand throw.
(16) Post hoc tests revealed that for the overhand throw, the IVD and TD groups were superior to the SD group but not different from each other.
(17) Shoulder pain in the overhand or throwing athlete can often be traced to the stabilizing mechanisms of the glenohumeral joint.
(18) Analysis by age and by sex showed a significant difference in the performance of the Overhand Throw.
(19) The helices are arranged in a left-handed antiparallel bundle with two overhand connections.
(20) A depression of the exercised shoulder was found in skilled tennis players, and in other athletes employing the overhand motion.