Mastery vs X - What's the difference?
mastery | x |
The position or authority of a master; dominion; command; supremacy; superiority.
* Sir (Walter Raleigh) (ca.1554-1618)
*{{quote-book, year=1892, author=(James Yoxall)
, chapter=5, title= Superiority in war or competition; victory; triumph; preeminence.
* (w), xxxii. 18
* , ix. 25.
* (Ben Jonson) (1572-1637)
(label) Contest for superiority.
(label) A masterly operation; a feat.
* (Geoffrey Chaucer) (c.1343-1400)
(label) The philosopher's stone.
The act or process of mastering; the state of having mastered; expertise.
* (John Tillotson) (1630-1694)
* (John Locke) (1632-1705)
The twenty-fourth letter of the .
Image:Latin X.png, Capital and lowercase versions of X , in normal and italic type
Image:Fraktur letter X.png, Uppercase and lowercase X in Fraktur
Roman numerals
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As a noun mastery
is the position or authority of a master; dominion; command; supremacy; superiority.As a letter x is
the twenty-fourth letter of the.As a symbol x is
voiceless velar fricative.mastery
English
(Webster 1913)Noun
(en-noun)- If divided by mountains, they will fight for the mastery of the passages of the tops.
The Lonely Pyramid, passage=The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom. Whirling wreaths and columns of burning wind, rushed around and over them.}}
- The voice of them that shout for mastery .
- Every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things.
- O, but to have gulled him / Had been a mastery .
- (Holland)
- I will do a maistrie ere I go.
- He could attain to a mastery in all languages.
- The learning and mastery of a tongue, being unpleasant in itself, should not be cumbered with other difficulties.