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Definitions: Mastering |
MasteringNoun1. Becoming proficient in the use of something; having mastery of; "his mastering the art of cooking took a long time". 2. The act of making a master recording from which copies can be made; "he received a bill for mastering the concert and making 100 copies". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "mastering" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1660. (references) |
Crosswords: Mastering |
| English words defined with "mastering": conquest ♦ mastery ♦ subordination. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "mastering": bus master, bus mastering ♦ compact disk - read only memory ♦ Direct Memory Access ♦ Extended Industry-Standard Architecture ♦ First Party DMA ♦ Industry Standard Architecture ♦ SCSI adaptor. (references) |
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Screenplays | Tonight you have learned the final and greatest truth of the Ninja that ultimate mastering comes not from the body but from the mind. (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles; writing credit: Kevin Eastman; Peter Laird) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Mastering a River (1970) | |
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Lao-Tzu | Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power. |
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Health | Too often, however, physicians and parents may focus primarily on an individual symptom -- especially the inability to walk. While mastering specific skills is an important focus of treatment on a day-to-day basis, the ultimate goal is to help individuals grow to adulthood and have maximum independence in society. (references) | |
For example, behavioral therapy might include hiding a toy inside a box to reward a child for learning to reach into the box with his weaker hand. Likewise, a child learning to say his "b" words might be given a balloon for mastering the word. In other cases, therapists may try to discourage unhelpful or destructive behaviors, such as hair-pulling or biting, by selectively presenting a child with rewards and praise during other, more positive activities. (references) | ||
Economic History | Portugal | If an American firm is mastering EU regulations prior to exporting or investing in the EU, it has already done its homework for Portugal. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
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Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | Parents have a right to know whether their children are mastering the basics. |
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| "Mastering" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 92.05% of the time. "Mastering" is used about 88 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 92.05% | 81 | 36,835 |
| Noun (proper) | 4.55% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Noun (singular) | 2.27% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 1.14% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 88 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "mastering": bus mastering. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "mastering": pre-mastering, quarter-mastering, school-mastering. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "mastering"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Chinese | 掌握 (GRASP, grasping, mastered). (various references) | ||||||||||
Danish | udarbejdelse af master. (various references) | ||||||||||
Dutch | mastering. (various references) | ||||||||||
Finnish | mastertallenteen teko alkuperäistallenteesta. (various references) | ||||||||||
French | matriçage. (various references) | ||||||||||
German | meisternd (coping, manhandling). (various references) | ||||||||||
Greek | κατασκευή πρωτότυπου, πρωτοτυποκατασκευή. (various references) | ||||||||||
Italian | masterizzazione, masteringZero-Uno,2.91,115, 91,130. (various references) | ||||||||||
Korean | 지배 (Bossing, Dominant, Dominating, Domination, governance, mastery, reign, ruling). (various references) | ||||||||||
Manx | mainshteragh (masterly), gynsaghey (coaching). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | asteringmay framtagning av masterskiva. (various references) | ||||||||||
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Words ending with "mastering": overmastering, remastering. (additional references) | |
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"Mastering" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: easterling, macterin, maestrazgo, maestrino, Mantaring, Mascherin, Mascherini, mastern, mateing, mestrino, monstering. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "mastering" (pronounced ma"stering) |
| 6 | -a" s t er i ng | plastering. |
| 5 | -s t er i ng | administering, blistering, blustering, bolstering, clustering, festering, filibustering, fostering, mustering, pestering, registering, sequestering. |
| 4 | -t er i ng | altering, bantering, bartering, battering, bettering, catering, centering, chartering, chattering, cluttering, countering, doctoring, encountering, entering, factoring, faltering, filtering, flattering, fluttering, frittering, glittering, guttering, hectoring, lettering, littering, loitering, mentoring, metering, mitering, monitoring, motoring, muttering, nattering, neutering, petering, puttering, reentering, scattering, sculpturing, shattering, sheltering, shuttering, slaughtering, smattering, spattering, splintering, sputtering, stuttering, sweltering, teetering, tottering, tutoring, unflattering, uttering, watering. |
| 3 | -er i ng | anchoring, angering, answering, auguring, backfiring, badgering, belaboring, beleaguering, bewildering, bickering, blundering, bordering, bothering, brokering, butchering, capturing, censoring, clamoring, clobbering, coloring, configuring, conjuring, conquering, considering, cornering, covering, cowering, culturing, deciphering, delivering, desiring, devouring, diapering, dickering, differing, discovering, disfavoring, disfiguring, dismembering, dithering, doddering, embroidering, empowering, endangering, endeavoring, fathering, favoring, feathering, featuring, figuring, fingering, flavoring, flickering, floundering, flowering, foundering, fracturing, furthering, garnering, gathering, gerrymandering, gesturing, glimmering, glowering, grandfathering, hammering, hampering, hankering, harboring, hindering, hollering, honoring, hovering, hungering, hunkering, injuring, inquiring, laboring, laundering, lawyering, layering, lecturing, levering, lingering, lowering, lumbering, majoring, maneuvering, manufacturing, massacring, maundering, meandering, measuring, minoring, mirroring, mongering, mothering, murdering, murmuring, neighboring, nonmanufacturing, numbering, nurturing, offering, ordering, outnumbering, pampering, pandering, papering, partnering, peppering, perjuring, philandering, picturing, pilfering, plundering, pondering, posturing, powdering, powering, pressuring, proffering, prospering, puncturing, quivering, recapturing, reconsidering, recovering, rediscovering, rejiggering, remembering, rendering, reoffering, reordering, requiring, restructuring, rewiring, rupturing, savoring, scampering, scouring, severing, shimmering, shivering, shouldering, showering, shuddering, simmering, slithering, slobbering, slumbering, smoldering, smothering, snickering, sobering, soldering, soldiering, souring, spiering, sponsoring, squandering, staggering, structuring, suffering, surrendering, swaggering, tailoring, tampering, tapering, tempering, tendering, thundering, tinkering, torturing, towering, transpiring, triggering, uncovering, unwavering, ushering, venturing, wagering, wallpapering, wandering, warmongering, wavering, weathering, whimpering, whispering, withering, wondering, Wuthering, zippering. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: emigrants, streaming. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-g-i-m-n-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: angriest, astringe, emigrant, ganister, gantries, garments, granites, ingrates, magister, mangiest, margents, migrants, migrates, minarets, mintages, misagent, ragtimes, raiments, rangiest, remating, smarting, smearing, steaming, sterigma. | |
-2 letters: aigrets, anestri, antsier, argents, armings, earings, easting, eatings, engrams, enigmas, erasing, etamins, gainers, gaiters, gamiest, gamines, garment, garnets, gastrin, germans, germina, gisarme, granite, gratine, gratins, imagers, imarets. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-g-i-m-n-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: centigrams, germinates, marginates, marketings, morganites, nightmares, restamping, ringmaster, smartening, smattering, stammering, steamering, streamings. | |
+2 letters: abridgments, charmingest, emigrations, ergotamines, gangsterism, garnishment, impregnants, impregnates, magnetizers, martingales, misaltering, miscreating, misrelating, mistreating, prestamping, regimentals, remastering, ringmasters, smatterings, trigeminals. | |
+3 letters: abridgements, arraignments, centimorgans, disagreement, drumbeatings, earthmovings, ferrimagnets, fragmentizes, gangsterisms, garnishments, gastrocnemii, gastronomies, germinations, impregnators, mastersinger, menstruating, mineralogist, realignments, reassignment, reestimating, remigrations, steamrolling, streamlining, transmigrate. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 61 73 74 65 72 69 6E 67 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-- .- ... - . .-. .. -. --. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01100001 01110011 01110100 01100101 01110010 01101001 01101110 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M a s t e r i n g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 0061 0073 0074 0065 0072 0069 006E 0067 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)476785867184758073 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Familiar 6. Quotations: Non-fiction 7. Quotations: Speeches 8. Usage Frequency | 9. Expressions 10. Expressions: Internet 11. Translations: Modern 12. Derivations | 13. Rhymes 14. Anagrams 15. Orthography 16. Bibliography |
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