Master vs Great - What's the difference?
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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.
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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.
Very big, large scale.
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*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
*:He doth object I am too great of birth.
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Title referring to an important leader.
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Superior; admirable; commanding; applied to thoughts, actions, and feelings.
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Endowed with extraordinary powers; uncommonly gifted; able to accomplish vast results; strong; powerful; mighty; noble.
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(lb) Pregnant; large with young.
*(Bible), (Psalms) lxxviii. 71
*:the ewes great with young
More than ordinary in degree; very considerable.
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*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
*:We have all / Great' cause to give ' great thanks.
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Intimate; familiar.
*(Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)
*:those that are so great with him
Expression of gladness and content about something.
sarcastic inversion thereof.
A person of major significance, accomplishment or acclaim.
A course of academic study devoted to the works of such persons and also known as Literae Humaniores ; the "Greats" name has official status with respect to 's program and is widely used as a colloquialism in reference to similar programs elsewhere.
(music) The main division in a pipe organ, usually the loudest division.
very well (in a very satisfactory manner)
As a noun master
is (l) (original version of a document or of a recording).As a verb great is
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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.
Derived terms
(Terms derived from the noun "master") * bemaster * masterable * overmaster * remasterEtymology 2
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English
(wikipedia great)Adjective
(er)citation, passage=“[…] the awfully hearty sort of Christmas cards that people do send to other people that they don't know at all well. You know. The kind that have mottoes like // Here's rattling good luck and roaring good cheer, / With lashings of food and great hogsheads of beer.
citation, passage=‘Children crawled over each other like little grey worms in the gutters,’ he said. ‘The only red things about them were their buttocks and they were raw. Their faces looked as if snails had slimed on them and their mothers were like great sick beasts whose byres had never been cleared.
Where Dr Pangloss meets Machiavelli, passage=Hidden behind thickets of acronyms and gorse bushes of detail, a new great game is under way across the globe. Some call it geoeconomics, but it's geopolitics too. The current power play consists of an extraordinary range of countries simultaneously sitting down to negotiate big free trade and investment agreements.}}
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=He was thinking; but the glory of the song, the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights,
Usage notes
In simple situations, using modifiers of intensity such as fairly'', ''somewhat , etc. can lead to an awkward construction, with the exception of certain common expressions such as “so great” and “really great”. In particular “very great” is unusually strong as a reaction, and in many cases “great” or its meaning of “very good” will suffice.Synonyms
* See also * See alsoDerived terms
* great big * great chamber * great hall * great room * greatly * greatnessInterjection
(en interjection)- Great! Thanks for the wonderful work.
- Oh, great! I just dumped all 500 sheets of the manuscript all over and now I have to put them back in order.
Noun
(en noun)- Newton and Einstein are two of the greats of the history of science.
- Spencer read Greats at Oxford, taking a starred first.
Adverb
(-)- Those mechanical colored pencils work great because they don't have to be sharpened.