Master vs Baster - What's the difference?
master | baster |
Someone who has control over something or someone.
* Addison
* Jowett (Thucyd.)
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The owner of an animal or slave.
(nautical) The captain of a merchant ship; a master mariner.
Someone who employs others.
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An expert at something.
* Macaulay
* John Locke
A tradesman who is qualified to teach apprentices.
(dated) A schoolmaster.
A skilled artist.
(dated) A man or a boy; mister. See Master.
* Jonathan Swift
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.
(legal) A parajudicial officer (such as a referee, an auditor, an examiner, or an assessor) specially appointed to help a court with its proceedings.
(engineering) A device that is controlling other devices or is an authoritative source (e.g. master database).
A person holding an office of authority among the Freemasons, especially the presiding officer; also, a person holding a similar office in other civic societies.
Masterful.
Main, principal or predominant.
Highly skilled.
Original.
To become the master of; to subject to one's will, control, or authority; to conquer; to overpower; to subdue.
* (and other bibliographic details) (John Locke)
* 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 4
To learn to a high degree of proficiency.
(obsolete) To own; to posses.
* (and other bibliographic details) (Shakespeare)
To make a master copy of.
To earn a Master's degree.
As nouns the difference between master and baster
is that master is someone who has control over something or someone while baster is one who bastes.As an adjective master
is masterful.As a verb master
is {{cx|intransitive|lang=en}} To be a master.master
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) maister, mayster, meister, from (etyl) ). Reinforced by (etyl) maistre, mestre from the same Latin source.Alternative forms
* (l) (dialectal), (l) (dialectal) * mastre (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- master of a hundred thousand drachms
- We are masters of the sea.
- great masters of ridicule
- No care is taken to improve young men in their own language, that they may thoroughly understand and be masters of it.
- Where there are little masters and misses in a house, they are impediments to the diversions of the servants.
Synonyms
* (sense, master's degree) masters, master's * (sense, master's degree) magistrate (Quebec English) * (film) establishing shot, long shot * (ship) skipper, captain * See alsoDerived terms
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* (l) * (l)Adjective
(-)Verb
(en verb)- Obstinacy and willful neglects must be mastered , even though it cost blows.
- Then Elzevir cried out angrily, 'Silence. Are you mad, or has the liquor mastered you? Are you Revenue-men that you dare shout and roister? or contrabandiers with the lugger in the offing, and your life in your hand. You make noise enough to wake folk in Moonfleet from their beds.'
- It took her years to master the art of needlecraft.
- the wealth that the world masters
- He mastered in English at the state college.