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Meanings of master in English

Portuguese
capitão
Catalan
capità
Spanish
capitán
Wikidata

An officer who is licensed to command a merchant ship.

capitão
Portuguese
mistress
Spanish
maestre
Catalan
mestre

Head or senior member of a college within a collegiate university.

Related terms
mistress
Catalan
clau mestra
Spanish
maestra

Key that secures entrance everywhere.

clau mestra
Portuguese
castelão
Catalan
senyor
Spanish
amo

A person who has general authority over others.

castelão
Usage of master in English
1
A good alternative to the master's can be a year in industry.
The Guardian
2
The chisel work, the fine detail, the work of a master artisan.
Map of bones
3
As a result, the slave will contain different data than the master.
High performance mysql, 2nd edition
4
The West fears Iran wants to master technology to build nuclear weapons.
The Irish Times
5
Unfortunately going beyond certain limits he has surpassed his master, he said.
Radio NZ
6
As a result, the slave's data will be different from the master's.
High performance mysql, 2nd edition
7
My master is particularly interested in the state of the Rolencian army.'
King rolen's kin: the uncrowned king
8
Had Jean-Claude given me the ability to see master vampires true forms?
Guilty Pleasures
9
To create a new master password because the previous one was lost:
Apple training series: mac os x support essentials v10.6
10
Four o'clock came; the names were called; the master left the room.
Eric; Or, Little by Little
11
She is known as master so all the challenges come her way.
Bloody Bones
12
This master was clearly the power he could sense in the distance.
When darkness comes
13
He now saw evidence of the German master plan wherever he looked.
The Information Officer
14
He was master of the particular as well as of the universal.
The Pleasures of Ignorance
15
The bull was master of the situation; he had cleared the ring.
The Adventures of a Forty-niner / An Historic Description of Cal...
16
The master of pauses paused far longer than I had ever witnessed.
The Council of Dads