different between crush vs master

English

Etymology

From Middle English cruschen (“to crush, smash, squeeze, squash”), from Old French croissir (“to crush”), from Late Latin *cruscio (“to brush”), from Frankish *krostjan (“to crush, squeeze, squash”). Akin to Gothic ???????????????????????????????? (kriustan, “to gnash”), Old Swedish krusa (“to crush”), Middle Low German krossen (“to break”), Swedish krysta (“to squeeze”), Danish kryste (“to squash”), Icelandic kreista (“to squeeze, squash”), Faroese kroysta (“to squeeze”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k???/
• Rhymes: -??

Noun

crush (countable and uncountable, plural crushes)

1. A violent collision or compression; a crash; destruction; ruin.
2. Violent pressure, as of a moving crowd.
3. A crowd that produces uncomfortable pressure.

   a crush at a reception

4. A violent crowding.
5. A crowd control barrier.
6. A drink made by squeezing the juice out of fruit.
7. (informal) An infatuation with somebody one is not dating.

   I've had a huge crush on her since we met many years ago.

   1. (informal, by extension) The human object of such infatuation or affection.
   • 2004, Chris Wallace, Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage

     It had taken nine years from the evening that Truman first showed up with a pie plate at her mother's door, but his dogged perseverance eventually won him the hand of his boyhood Sunday school crush.

8. A standing stock or cage with movable sides used to restrain livestock for safe handling.
9. (dated) A party or festive function.
   • 1890, Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray chapter 1

     Two months ago I went to a crush at Lady Brandon's.

10. (Australia) The process of crushing cane to remove the raw sugar, or the season when this process takes place.
11. (television, uncountable) The situation where certain colors are so similar as to be hard to distinguish, either as a deliberate effect or as a limitation of a display.

    black crush; white crush

Hyponyms

• (infatuation): squish

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

crush (third-person singular simple present crushes, present participle crushing, simple past and past participle crushed)

1. To press between two hard objects; to squeeze so as to alter the natural shape or integrity of it, or to force together into a mass.

   to crush grapes

   • 1769, Benjamin Blayney, King James Bible : Leviticus 22:24

     Ye shall not offer unto the Lord that which is bruised, or crushed, or broken, or cut

2. To reduce to fine particles by pounding or grinding

   Synonym: comminute

   to crush quartz

   • 1912, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes, Chapter 1

     With a wild scream he was upon her, tearing a great piece from her side with his mighty teeth, and striking her viciously upon her head and shoulders with a broken tree limb until her skull was crushed to a jelly.

3. (figuratively) To overwhelm by pressure or weight.

   After the corruption scandal, the opposition crushed the ruling party in the elections

4. (figuratively, colloquial) To do impressively well at (sports events; performances; interviews; etc.).

   They had a gig recently at Madison Square—totally crushed it!

5. To oppress or grievously burden.
7. To overcome completely; to subdue totally.

   The sultan's black guard crushed every resistance bloodily.
8. (intransitive) To be or become broken down or in, or pressed into a smaller compass, by external weight or force

   an eggshell crushes easily

9. (intransitive) To feel infatuation or unrequited love.

   She's crushing on him.
10. (film, television) To give a compressed or foreshortened appearance to.
    • 2003, Michel Chion, The Films of Jacques Tati (page 78)

      He frames his subject in distant close-ups (we feel the distance, due mostly to the crushed perspective brought about by the telephoto lens).

    • 2010, Birgit Bräuchler, John Postill, Theorising Media and Practice (page 319)

      They realise that trajectories, space expansion and crushing are different with different lenses, whether wide angle or telephoto, and that actors' eyelines will be altered.

11. (transitive, television) To make certain colors so similar as to be hard to distinguish, either as a deliberate effect or as a limitation of a display.

    My old TV set crushes the blacks when the brightness is lowered.

Derived terms

Synonyms

• (trans, to squeeze into a permanent new shape) squash
• (to pound or grind into fine particles) pulverize, pulverise
• (to overwhelm) overtake
• (to impress at) ace; slay at, kill

Translations

References

• crush in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• Rusch, Schur, churs

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English crush.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?k???/, /?k???/

Noun

crush m or m f (in variation) (plural crushes or crush)

1. (colloquial) crush (a love interest)

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, Geordie) IPA^(key): /?m??st?/
• (Northern England) IPA^(key): /?mast?/
• (General American) enPR: m?s?t?r, IPA^(key): /?mæst?/
• Rhymes: -??st?(?), -æst?(?)
• Hyphenation: mas?ter

Etymology 1

From Middle English maister, mayster, meister, from Old English m?ster, mæ?ster, mæ?ester, mæ?ister, magister (“master”), from Latin magister (“chief, teacher, leader”), from Old Latin magester, from Proto-Indo-European *mé?h?s, (as in magnus (“great”)) + -ester/-ister (compare minister (“servant”)). Reinforced by Old French maistre, mestre from the same Latin source. Compare also Saterland Frisian Mäster (“master”), West Frisian master (“master”), Dutch meester (“master”), German Meister (“master”). Doublet of maestro and magister.

Alternative forms

• mester (dialectal), mister (dialectal)
• mastre (obsolete)
• Master
• Massa, massa, massah, masta, Mastah, mastah, mastuh (eye dialect)

Noun

master (plural masters, feminine mistress)

1. Someone who has control over something or someone.
   • 1881, Benjamin Jowett, Thucydides

     We are masters of the sea.
2. The owner of an animal or slave.
3. (nautical) The captain of a merchant ship; a master mariner.

   Synonyms: skipper, captain

4. (dated) The head of a household.
5. Someone who employs others.
6. An expert at something.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:skilled person

   • No care is taken to improve young men in their own language, that they may thoroughly understand and be masters of it.

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.
    • 1731, Jonathan Swift, Directions to Servants

      Where there are little Ma?ters and Mi??es in a Hou?e, they are u?ually great Impediments to the Diver?ions of the Servants;

11. A master's degree; a type of postgraduate degree, usually undertaken after a bachelor degree.

    Synonyms: masters, master's, (Quebec English) magistrate

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.

    Synonyms: establishing shot, long shot

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, computing) A device that is controlling other devices or is an authoritative source.

    Synonym: primary

    Antonyms: secondary, slave

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.

Hyponyms

• mistress (feminine-specific form)

Derived terms

Pages starting with “master”.

Descendants

Related terms

• mistress (feminine form of "master")

Translations

See also

• journeyman
• apprentice

Adjective

master (not comparable)

1. Masterful.

2. Main, principal or predominant.
3. Highly skilled.

4. Original.

Translations

Verb

master (third-person singular simple present masters, present participle mastering, simple past and past participle mastered)

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.

   • Obstinacy and willful neglects must be mastered, even though it cost blows.

   • 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 4

     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.'

3. (transitive) To learn to a high degree of proficiency.

4. (transitive, obsolete) To own; to possess.
5. (transitive, especially of a musical performance) To make a master copy of.
6. (intransitive, usually with in) To earn a Master's degree.

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

mast +? -er

Noun

master (plural masters)

1. (nautical, in combination) A vessel having a specified number of masts.

Translations

Anagrams

• 'maters, Amster, METARs, Stream, armest, armets, mastre, maters, matres, metras, ramets, ramset, remast, stream, tamers, tremas, trémas

Finnish

Noun

master

1. (BDSM) (male) dom

Declension

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English master. Doublet of maître, inherited from Latin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mas.t??/

Noun

master m (plural masters)

1. master's degree, master's (postgraduate degree)
2. master (golf tournament)
3. master, master copy

Further reading

• “master” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• trames, trémas

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch master, from English master, from Middle English maister, mayster, meister, from Old English m?ster, mæ?ster, mæ?ester, mæ?ister, magister (“master”), from Latin magister (“chief, teacher, leader”), from Old Latin magester, from Proto-Indo-European *mé?h?s, (as in magnus (“great”)) + -ester/-ister (compare minister (“servant”)). Doublet of magister and mester.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?mast??r]
• Hyphenation: mas?têr

Noun

master (plural master-master, first-person possessive masterku, second-person possessive mastermu, third-person possessive masternya)

1. master:
   1. someone who has control over something or someone.
   2. an expert at something.
   3. the original of a document or of a recording.
   4. (education) a master's degree; a type of postgraduate degree, usually undertaken after a bachelor degree.

      Synonym: magister

Affixed terms

Compounds

Further reading

• “master” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

master m or f

1. indefinite plural of mast

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From English master. Doublet of magister.

Noun

master m (definite singular masteren, indefinite plural masterar, definite plural masterane)

1. a master's degree
2. a master's thesis
3. a person that has a master's degree
4. original document or recording

Etymology 2

Noun

master f (definite singular mastra or mastri, indefinite plural mastrer, definite plural mastrene)

1. form removed with the spelling reform of 2012; superseded by mast

Etymology 3

Noun

master f

1. indefinite plural of mast

References

• “master” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Frisian

Alternative forms

• m?ster
• m?stere, m?stere

Etymology

Borrowed from Vulgar Latin *maester, from Latin magister. Cognates include Old English mæ?ester and Old Saxon m?star.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ma?ster/

Noun

m?ster m

1. master
2. leader
3. commissioner

Inflection

Descendants

• Saterland Frisian: Mäster
• West Frisian: master

Derived terms

• M?ster

References

• Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009) An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, ?ISBN, page 28

Swedish

Noun

master

1. indefinite plural of mast

Anagrams

• smarte, smetar

West Frisian

Etymology

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Noun

master c (plural masters, diminutive masterke)

1. master

Derived terms

• boargemaster

Further reading

• “master”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011