Original vs Master - What's the difference?
original | master |
(label) Relating to the origin or beginning; preceding all others.
*{{quote-book, year=1944, author=(w)
, title= (label) First in a series or copies/versions.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
, title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=1 (label) Newly created.
(label) Fresh, different.
(label) Pioneering.
(label) Having as its origin.
An object or other creation (e.g. narrative work) from which all later copies and variations are derived
A person with a unique and interesting personality and/or creative talent
(archaic) An eccentric
Someone who has control over something or someone.
* Addison
* Jowett (Thucyd.)
*
, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4
, passage=The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on an afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track.
The owner of an animal or slave.
(nautical) The captain of a merchant ship; a master mariner.
Someone who employs others.
*
, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4
, passage=No matter how early I came down, I would find him on the veranda, smoking cigarettes, or otherwise his man would be there with a message to say that his master would shortly join me if I would kindly wait.}}
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 adjectives the difference between original and master
is that original is (not comparable) first in a series or copies/versions while master is masterful.As nouns the difference between original and master
is that original is an object or other creation (eg narrative work) from which all later copies and variations are derived while master is someone who has control over something or someone or master can be (nautical|in combination) a vessel having a specified number of masts.As a verb master is
to be a master.original
English
Adjective
(en adjective)The Three Corpse Trick, chapter=5 , passage=The hovel stood in the centre of what had once been a vegetable garden, but was now a patch of rank weeds. Surrounding this, almost like a zareba, was an irregular ring of gorse and brambles, an unclaimed vestige of the original common.}}
citation, passage=The original family who had begun to build a palace to rival Nonesuch had died out before they had put up little more than the gateway, […].}}
Synonyms
* (first in series ) initial * autograph * prototypeAntonyms
* copy * derivative * reproduction * simileDerived terms
* originally * original sinNoun
(en noun)- This manuscript is the original
- You’re an original
Synonyms
* autograph * prototypeAntonyms
* copy * remake * reproductionStatistics
*External links
* * ----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.