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Definition: Mastered |
MasteredAdjective1. Understood perfectly; "had his algebra problems down". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "mastered" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1415. (references) |
Synonyms: MasteredSynonyms: down (adj), down pat(p) (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Mastered |
| English words defined with "mastered": ABC, ABC's, alphabet ♦ dominate ♦ first principle, first rudiment ♦ get the hang ♦ law ♦ master, medicine ♦ practice of law, practice of medicine ♦ rudiment ♦ Unmasterable. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "mastered": BONHEUR ♦ Cars ♦ developmental concept of aging ♦ gemologist ♦ heatseeker ♦ qualified worker ♦ Sabbathians, shadow naming context, skilled artisan, skilled labour, skilled labourer ♦ White book CD-ROM. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "mastered": Unmasterable. (references) |
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Screenplays | You've mastered a dead tongue. (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) That's great, Larry, you've really mastered the single entendre. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) Baldrick, the ape creatures of the Indus have mastered this. (Blackadder II; writing credit: Richard Curtis; Ben Elton) When we have mastered these tactics, we will use them to seek out and confront the forces of evil and kill 'em deader than hell! (Fire Birds; writing credit: Step Tyner; John K. Swensson) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Bound and Mastered (1986) | |
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Bhagavad Gita | When meditation is mastered, the mind is unwavering like the flame of a lamp in a windless place. |
Douglas William Jerrold | The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon. |
James Russell Lowell | He mastered whatever was not worth the knowing. |
| A reading machine, always wound up and going, he mastered whatever was not worth the knowing. | |
Lao-Tzu | He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still. |
Oscar Wilde | His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning. As a writer he has mastered everything except language. |
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John Locke | 1690 | They that found absolute monarchy upon the title of the sword, make their heroes, who are the founders of such monarchies, arrant Draw-can-sirs, and forget they had any officers and soldiers that fought on their side in the battles they won, or assisted them in the subduing, or shared in possessing, the countries they mastered. (Second Treatise of Government) |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | For example, if a child has difficulty saying words that begin with "b," the therapist may suggest daily practice with a list of "b" words, increasing their difficulty as each list is mastered. (references) | |
Economic History | Mauritius | Foreign participation may be limited to 50% in investments serving the domestic market, and is generally not encouraged in areas where Mauritius has already mastered the technology. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
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Richard Nixon | 1969-1974 | If we succeed, generations to come will say of us now living that we mastered our moment, that we helped make the world safe for mankind. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | When we promote a child from grade to grade who hasn't mastered the work, we don't do that child any favors. |
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| "Mastered" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 82.52% of the time. "Mastered" is used about 349 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 (past participle) | 82.52% | 288 | 17,155 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 16.91% | 59 | 44,010 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 0.57% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 349 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
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Ending with "mastered": old-mastered, re-mastered. | |
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| Language | Translations for "mastered"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Chinese | 掌握 (GRASP, grasping, mastering). (various references) | ||||||||||
French | maîtrisait. (various references) | ||||||||||
German | gemeistert, beherrschte (ruled). (various references) | ||||||||||
Korean | 지배하" (Bossed, Dominated, ruled). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | asteredmay kännare (adept, connoisseur, fancier, judge). (various references) | ||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "mastered": overmastered, remastered. (additional references) | |
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"Mastered" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bastered, castored, Magstore, mastard, masterlead, matere, matreed, mistere, rastered. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "mastered" (pronounced ma"sterd) |
| 5 | -a" s t er d | bastard, plastered. |
| 4 | -s t er d | administered, blistered, bolstered, bustard, cloistered, clustered, custard, festered, filibustered, flustered, fostered, mustard, mustered, pestered, registered, sequestered, unregistered, upholstered. |
| 3 | -t er d | altered, bantered, bartered, battered, bettered, buttered, catered, centered, chartered, cluttered, countered, cratered, doctored, embittered, encountered, entered, factored, faltered, fettered, filtered, flattered, fluttered, frittered, glittered, guttered, headquartered, lettered, littered, martyred, mattered, mentored, metered, monitored, muttered, neutered, pattered, petard, petered, reentered, scattered, shattered, sheltered, shuttered, slaughtered, spattered, splattered, splintered, sputtered, tattered, teetered, tutored, unaltered, unchartered, uncluttered, unfettered, unfiltered, uttered, watered, wintered. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: streamed. | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-m-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: dearest, derates, redates, remated, remates, reteams, sedater, smarted, smeared, steamed, steamer. | |
-2 letters: adeems, ameers, aretes, armets, daters, demast, derate, derats, dermas, desert, deters, dreams, dreamt, easter, eaters, edemas, erased, madres, marted, masted, master, maters, matres, meated, merdes, merest, meters, metred, metres, ramees, ramets, reamed, redate, remade, remate, reseat, reseda, rested, reteam, retems. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-e-m-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: diameters, dreamiest, moderates, restamped, smartened, smartweed, smattered, stammered, stampeder, steamered, streambed, tradesmen. | |
+2 letters: debarments, decameters, dekameters, demarcates, dermatomes, dermatoses, dreamtimes, headmaster, headstream, misaltered, miscreated, misrelated, mistreated, prestamped, remastered, remediates, sidestream, smartweeds, stampeders, streambeds, streamside, trematodes. | |
+3 letters: acidimeters, atmosphered, audiometers, demonstrate, departments, derailments, dermatogens, desideratum, diathermies, drumbeaters, endearments, headmasters, headstreams, homesteader, mediatrices, mediatrixes, menstruated, radiometers, reestimated, sedimentary, steamrolled, streamlined, streamsides, taxidermies, timberheads. | |
| 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 65 64 |
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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 01100101 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M a s t e r e d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 0061 0073 0074 0065 0072 0065 0064 |
| 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)4767858671847170 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Quotations: Familiar 7. Quotations: Historic 8. Quotations: Non-fiction | 9. Quotations: Speeches 10. Usage Frequency 11. Expressions 12. Translations: Modern | 13. Derivations 14. Rhymes 15. Anagrams 16. Orthography | 17. Bibliography |
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