How to pronounce “master”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• Someone who has control over something or someone.
• The owner of an animal or slave.
• (nautical) The captain of a merchant ship; a master mariner.
• (dated) A male head of household.
• Someone who employs others.
• An expert at something.
• A tradesman who is qualified to teach apprentices.
• (dated) A male schoolteacher.
• A skilled artist.
• (dated) A man or a boy; mister. See Master.
• A master's degree; a type of postgraduate degree, usually undertaken after a bachelor degree.
• A person holding such a degree.
• The original of a document or of a recording.
• (film) The primary wide shot of a scene, into which the closeups will be edited later.
• (law) A parajudicial officer (such as a referee, an auditor, an examiner, or an assessor) specially appointed to help a court with its proceedings.
• (engineering, computing) A device that is controlling other devices or is an authoritative source.
• (Freemasonry) A person holding an office of authority, especially the presiding officer.
• (by extension) A person holding a similar office in other civic societies.
• Ellipsis of master key.
• (BDSM) A male dominant.
• [Adjective]
• Masterful.
• Main, principal or predominant.
• Highly skilled.
• Original.
• [Verb]
• (intransitive) To be a master.
• (transitive) To become the master of; to subject to one's will, control, or authority; to conquer; to overpower; to subdue.
• (transitive) To learn to a high degree of proficiency.
• (transitive, obsolete) To own; to possess.
• (transitive, especially of a musical performance) To make a master copy of.
• (intransitive, usually with in) To earn a Master's degree.

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