Master
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Master or Masters are terms denoting some kind of rank or status, and may refer to:
Ranks and titles [edit]
- Master's degree, a postgraduate or sometimes undergraduate degree in the specified discipline
- Master (college), head of a college
- Schoolmaster, presiding officer of a school
- Master (form of address), a title used for young men in formal correspondence
- Master (judiciary), a judicial official in the courts of common law jurisdictions
- Master (martial arts)
- Master (naval), a former naval rank
- Master (Peerage of Scotland), the male heir-apparent or heir-presumptive to a title in the Peerage of Scotland
- Chess master, a rank of chess player
- Master, the Captain of a ship
- Master craftsman in the Medieval guilds
- Master-at-arms, a naval police officer, often addressed as "Master" in the Royal Navy
- Master of Ceremonies, or MC (emcee), the host of an official public or private staged event or other performance.
- Masters of the Ancient Wisdom (Theosophy), reputed to be enlightened beings originally identified by the founders of the Theosophical Society
- Old Master, a term for a recognised Western painter active before about 1800
- Station master, formerly the person in charge of railway stations
- Venerable Master, the master of a French freemasonic lodge
Arts and entertainment [edit]
- Master (American band), an American death metal band
- Master (Russian band), a Russian thrash metal band
- Master (Doctor Who), a Doctor Who villain
- Master (Doctor Who audio), a Doctor Who audio drama
- Master (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), a Buffy the Vampire Slayer villain
- The Master, a 2012 film
- Masters (The Tripods), a fictional race of beings in John Christopher's The Tripods trilogy
- Master (film), a 1997 Telugu-language film
- Masters (film), a 2011 Malayalam thriller
- The nickname of Bojan Adamič, a Slovene film score, jazz and pop composer
Sport [edit]
- ATP World Tour Finals (used to be called Tennis Masters Cup), the season ending men's professional tennis tournament
- ATP World Tour Masters 1000, a series of prominent mid-season tennis events on the men's professional tour
- Masters athletics (track and field), a competition age classification used by many sports
- Masters Cup (disc golf), an annual event on the disc golf PDGA tour
- Masters football, a football league in Britain contested by retired footballing legends
- Masters Rugby League, a derivative of rugby league for semi-retired and non-competitive players and officials
- Masters (snooker), a snooker tournament
- Masters Tournament, one of golf's four major championships
- Winmau World Masters, the world's oldest darts tournament
Other uses [edit]
- Master, Iran, a village in Markazi Province, Iran
- Master recording, the original of a visual or sound recording
- master-slave paradigm in technology and computing
- Sega Master System, an 8-bit cartridge-based video game console
- Master Lock, a brand of padlock
- Renault Master, a van
- Alenia Aermacchi M-346 Master, an Italian military transonic trainer aircraft
- The Masters School, an independent school in New York
- Master (BDSM), the dominant partner in a relationship
- Miles M.9 Master, a British 2-seat monoplane advanced trainer built by Miles Aircraft Ltd for the Royal Air Force and Fleet Air Arm during the Second World War
- Masters Home Improvement, an Australian Home Improvement Retailer
- List of Battle Arena Toshinden characters#Master, a character in the Battle Arena Toshinden fighting game series
See also [edit]
- The Master (disambiguation)
- Grandmaster (disambiguation)
- Maestro
- Marsters (surname)
- Meister (surname)
- Miss
- Mister (disambiguation)
- Mistress and Mrs.
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