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s | mastery |

As a letter s

is the letter s with a.

As a noun mastery is

the position or authority of a master; dominion; command; supremacy; superiority.

s

Translingual

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Letter

  • The nineteenth letter of the .

    • Symbol

    (wikipedia) (mul-symbol)
  • voiceless alveolar fricative
  • Symbol for second , an SI unit of measurement of time.

    • See also

    (Latn-script) * * (esh) * (dze) * {{Letter , page=S , NATO=Sierra , Morse=ยทยทยท , Character=S , Braille=? }} Image:Latin S.png, Capital and lowercase versions of S , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter S.png, Uppercase and lowercase S in Fraktur Symbols for SI units ----

    mastery

    English

    (Webster 1913)

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • The position or authority of a master; dominion; command; supremacy; superiority.
  • * Sir (Walter Raleigh) (ca.1554-1618)
    • If divided by mountains, they will fight for the mastery of the passages of the tops.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1892, author=(James Yoxall)
    • , chapter=5, title= 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.}}
  • Superiority in war or competition; victory; triumph; preeminence.
  • * (w), xxxii. 18
    • The voice of them that shout for mastery .
  • * , ix. 25.
    • Every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things.
  • * (Ben Jonson) (1572-1637)
    • O, but to have gulled him / Had been a mastery .
  • (label) Contest for superiority.
    • (Holland)
  • (label) A masterly operation; a feat.
  • * (Geoffrey Chaucer) (c.1343-1400)
    • I will do a maistrie ere I go.
  • (label) The philosopher's stone.
  • The act or process of mastering; the state of having mastered; expertise.
  • * (John Tillotson) (1630-1694)
    • He could attain to a mastery in all languages.
  • * (John Locke) (1632-1705)
    • The learning and mastery of a tongue, being unpleasant in itself, should not be cumbered with other difficulties.