Crush vs Master - What's the difference?
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A violent collision or compression; a crash; destruction; ruin.
* Addison
Violent pressure, as of a moving crowd.
Crowd which produces uncomfortable pressure.
A violent crowding
A crowd control barrier
A short-lived infatuation or affection for.
The human object of infatuation or affection.
* 2004 , , Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage
A standing stock or cage with movable sides used to restrain livestock for safe handling
A party, festive function
* 1890 ch 1
(Australia) The process of crushing cane to remove the raw sugar, or the season that this process takes place in.
To press or bruise between two hard bodies; to squeeze, so as to destroy the natural shape or integrity of the parts, or to force together into a mass.
To reduce to fine particles by pounding or grinding; to comminute.
* 1912 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), (Tarzan of the Apes), Chapter 1
To overwhelm by pressure or weight; to beat or force down, as by an incumbent weight.
To oppress or burden grievously.
To overcome completely; to subdue totally.
* Sir Walter Scott
To be or become broken down or in, or pressed into a smaller compass, by external weight or force
To feel infatuation with or unrequited love for.
(sports) to defeat emphatically
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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 crush and master
is that crush is a violent collision or compression; a crash; destruction; ruin while master is someone who has control over something or someone.As verbs the difference between crush and master
is that crush is to press or bruise between two hard bodies; to squeeze, so as to destroy the natural shape or integrity of the parts, or to force together into a mass while master is {{cx|intransitive|lang=en}} To be a master.As an adjective master is
masterful.crush
English
(wikipedia crush)Noun
(es)- the wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds
- A crush at a reception.
- It had taken nine years from the evening that first showed up with a pie plate at her mother's door, but his dogged perseverance eventually won him the hand of his boyhood Sunday school crush .
- Two months ago I went to a crush at Lady Brandon's.
Derived terms
* crush hat * crush room * girl crush * man crushVerb
(es)- to crush grapes
- Ye shall not offer unto the Lord that which is bruised, crushed , broken or cut. --Lev. xxii.
- to crush quartz
- With a wild scream he was upon her, tearing a great piece from her side with his mighty teeth, and striking her viciously upon her head and shoulders with a broken tree limb until her skull was crushed to a jelly.
- ''After the corruption scandal, the opposition crushed the ruling party in the elections
- The sultan's black guard crushed every resistance bloodily.
- speedily overtaking and crushing the rebels
- an eggshell crushes easily
- She's crushing on him.
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Derived terms
* crusher * crushing * crush on * crush out * crushed sugar * crushed velvetReferences
*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
(master) * ballet master * barmaster * beemaster * bergmaster * boroughmaster * brewmaster * burghomaster * burgomaster * bushmaster * chess master * cockmaster * concertmaster * craftsmaster * dockmaster * drill master/drillmaster * games master/games-master * Grand Master/grandmaster * harbor master/harbor-master/harbormaster * headmaster * house master/housemaster * ironmaster * * jumpmaster * loadmaster * lockmaster * master bedroom * master bricklayer * master builder * master card * master cast * master class * master copy * master cylinder * master file * master gland * master key * master mariner * master mason * Master of Arts * master of ceremonies * Master of Science * master plan/master-plan/masterplan * master race * master sergeant * master status * master tradesman * master trust * master-at-arms * masterdom * masterful * masterhood * masterless * masterly * mastermind * masterous * masterpiece * Masters * mastership * mastersinger * masterstroke * masterwork * mastery * metal master * mint-master * old master * past master * paymaster * postmaster * property master * puppet master/puppet-master/puppetmaster * quartermaster * question master/question-master/questionmaster * quizmaster * rattlesnake master * ringmaster * roaming master * saymaster * schoolmaster * scoutmaster * sheepmaster * shipmaster * spymaster * stationmaster * taskmaster * toastmaster * trackmaster * trainmaster * undermaster * watermaster * webmaster * weighmaster * whoremaster * workmaster * wreck master/wreck-master/wreckmaster * yardmasterSee also
* (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.