Muster vs Master - What's the difference?
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Gathering.
# An assemblage or display; a gathering, collection of people or things.
#* 1743 , Joseph Steele & Richard Addison, The Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq. :
#* Macaulay
#* 1920 , Commonwealth Bureau of Census and Statistics, Official Year Book of the Commonwealth of Australia , Issue 13,
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#* 1598 , William Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part 1 :
#* 1663 , Samuel Pepys, Diary , 4 Jul 1663:
# The sum total of an army when assembled for review and inspection; the whole number of effective men in an army.
#* Wyclif
#* Hooker
# (Australia, New Zealand) A roundup of livestock for inspection, branding, drenching, shearing etc.
#* 2006 , John Gilfoyle, Bloody Jackaroos! , Boolarong Press:
Showing.
# (obsolete) Something shown for imitation; a pattern.
# (obsolete) An act of showing something; a display.
#* 1590 , Sir Philip Sidney, Arcadia , Book III:
#* 1647 , Beaumont and Fletcher, The Queen of Corinth , Act 2:
# A collection of peafowl (an invented term rather than one used by zoologists).
(obsolete) To show, exhibit.
To be gathered together for parade, inspection, exercise, or the like (especially of a military force); to come together as parts of a force or body.
To collect, call or assemble together, such as troops or a group for inspection, orders, display etc.
* 12 July 2012 , Sam Adams, AV Club Ice Age: Continental Drift
(US) To enroll (into service).
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.
In transitive obsolete terms the difference between muster and master
is that muster is to show, exhibit while master is to own; to posses.In transitive terms the difference between muster and master
is that muster is to collect, call or assemble together, such as troops or a group for inspection, orders, display etc while master is to learn to a high degree of proficiency.As an adjective master is
masterful.muster
English
Noun
(en noun)- She seems to hear the Repetition of his Mens Names with Admiration; and waits only to answer him with as false a Muster of Lovers.
- Of the temporal grandees of the realm, and of their wives and daughters, the muster was great and splendid.
- The figures from 1788 to 1825 inclusive, as already mentioned, are based on the musters taken in those years; those for subsequent years are based upon estimates made on the basis of Census results and the annual.
- Come, let vs take a muster speedily: / Doomesday is neere; dye all, dye merrily.
- And after long being there, I 'light, and walked to the place where the King, Duke &c., did stand to see the horse and foot march by and discharge their guns, to show a French Marquisse (for whom this muster was caused) the goodness of our firemen
- The muster was thirty thousands of men.
- Ye publish the musters of your own bands, and proclaim them to amount of thousands.
- McGuire took the two of them out to Kidman's Bore on the Sylvester River where about two dozen stockmen from different stations had gathered to tend the muster along the edge of the Simpson Desert.
- Thus all things being condignely ordered, will an ill favoured impatiencie he waited, until the next morning he might make a muster of him selfe in the Iland [...].
- And when you find your women's favour fail, / 'Tis ten to one you'll know yourself, and seek me, / Upon a better muster of your manners.
Derived terms
* pass muster * bangtail musterVerb
(en verb)- With the help of some low-end boosting, Dinklage musters a decent amount of kid-appropriate menace—although he never does explain his gift for finding chunks of ice shaped like pirate ships—but Romano and Leary mainly sound bored, droning through their lines as if they’re simultaneously texting the contractors building the additions on their houses funded by their fat sequel paychecks.
Synonyms
* (l)Derived terms
* muster in * muster out * muster upReferences
* *Anagrams
* ----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.