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Masters

noun

1.

United States poet (1869-1950). Synonym: Edgar Lee Masters.

Master

noun

1.

An artist of consummate skill. Synonym: maestro. "One of the old masters"

2.

A person who has general authority over others. Synonyms: lord, overlord.

3.

A combatant who is able to defeat rivals. Synonyms: superior, victor.

4.

Directs the work of others.

5.

Presiding officer of a school. Synonyms: headmaster, schoolmaster.

6.

An original creation (i.e., an audio recording) from which copies can be made. Synonyms: master copy, original.

7.

An officer who is licensed to command a merchant ship. Synonyms: captain, sea captain, skipper.

8.

Someone who holds a master's degree from academic institution.

9.

An authority qualified to teach apprentices. Synonym: professional.

10.

Key that secures entrance everywhere. Synonyms: master key, passe-partout, passkey.

verb

(past & past part. mastered; pres. part. mastering)

1.

Be or become completely proficient or skilled in. Synonym: get the hang.

2.

Get on top of; deal with successfully. Synonyms: get over, overcome, subdue, surmount.

3.

Have dominance or the power to defeat over. Synonym: dominate. "The methods can master the problems"

4.

Have a firm understanding or knowledge of; be on top of. Synonym: control.

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"Masters" Quotes from Famous Books

... tell your masters all that you see and hear. Do not flatter them. Let it be the truth. Say that men talk everywhere, more and more openly. Tell them that you heard John Hampden say that the King's Star Chamber was an ...

— Oliver Cromwell • John Drinkwater

... like that," whispered Hawker, his grim ugly face white with anxiety and suspense (for he loved Damocles de Warrenne as the faithfullest of hounds loves the best of masters). "You're awastin' henergy all ...

— Snake and Sword - A Novel • Percival Christopher Wren

... appear in prominence in the tragic drama. The ancient was allied to statuary, the modern refers to painting. In the first there is a predominance of rhythm and melody, in the second of harmony and counterpoint. The Greeks idolized the finite, and therefore were the masters of all grace, elegance, proportion, fancy, dignity, majesty—of whatever, in short, is capable of being definitely conveyed by defined forms or thoughts: the moderns revere the infinite, and affect the indefinite as a vehicle of the infinite;—hence ...

— Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher • S. T. Coleridge

... once. He bound my arms with his girdle, and threw me into the sledge, and took me straight to the police station. I was imprisoned and tried. The commune gave me a good character, said that I was a good man, and that nothing wrong had been noticed about me. The masters for whom I worked also spoke well of me, but we had no money to engage a lawyer, and so I was condemned ...

— Resurrection • Count Leo Tolstoy

... reputation swells as a cucumber under glass. Being in sight of the newspaper men, he is also in their mind. His prices will stand higher than if he go out into the wilderness. Moreover, he has there the stimulating talk of the masters in his profession, and will be apt to think that his intelligence is developing amazingly, whereas in fact he is developing all on one side; and the end of him is—the ...

— Adventures in Criticism • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

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