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What does master mean?

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Noun
  1. Someone who has control over something or someone.
  2. The owner of an animal or slave.
  3. (nautical) The captain of a merchant ship; a master mariner.
  4. (dated) The head of a household.
  5. Someone who employs others.
  6. An expert at something.
  7. A tradesman who is qualified to teach apprentices.
  8. (dated) A schoolmaster.
  9. A skilled artist.
  10. (dated) A man or a boy; mister. See Master.
  11. A master's degree; a type of postgraduate degree, usually undertaken after a bachelor degree.
  12. A person holding such a degree.
  13. The original of a document or of a recording.
  14. (film) The primary wide shot of a scene, into which the closeups will be edited later.
  15. (law) A parajudicial officer (such as a referee, an auditor, an examiner, or an assessor) specially appointed to help a court with its proceedings.
  16. (engineering) A device that is controlling other devices or is an authoritative source (e.g. master database).
  17. (freemasonry) A person holding an office of authority, especially the presiding officer.
  18. (by extension) A person holding a similar office in other civic societies.
Adjective
  1. Masterful.
  2. Main, principal or predominant.
  3. Highly skilled.
  4. Original.
Verb
  1. (intransitive) To be a master.
  2. (transitive) To become the master of; to subject to one's will, control, or authority; to conquer; to overpower; to subdue.
  3. (transitive) To learn to a high degree of proficiency.
  4. (transitive, obsolete) To own; to posses.
  5. (transitive, especially of a musical performance) To make a master copy of.
  6. (intransitive, usually with in) To earn a Master's degree.
Noun
  1. (nautical, in combination) A vessel having a specified number of masts.
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