different between restrict vs master

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin restrictus, perfect passive participle of restring? (“draw back tightly; restrain, restrict”), from re- (“back, again”) + string? (“press, tighten, compress”). Doublet of ristretto as an adjective.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???st??kt/
• Rhymes: -?kt

Verb

restrict (third-person singular simple present restricts, present participle restricting, simple past and past participle restricted)

1. To restrain within boundaries; to limit; to confine
2. (specifically, mathematics) To consider (a function) as defined on a subset of its original domain.

   If we restrict sine to ${\displaystyle [-{\frac {\pi }{2}},{\frac {\pi }{2}}]}$, we can define its inverse.

Synonyms

• (to restrain within bounds): limit, bound, circumscribe, withstrain, restrain, repress, curb, coerce

Related terms

• restriction
• restraint
• restrain

Translations

Adjective

restrict (comparative more restrict, superlative most restrict)

1. (obsolete) Restricted.

Anagrams

• critters, stricter

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