Definizione monolingua

mastery

mastery (usually uncountable; plural masteries)

1. The position or authority of a master; dominion; command; supremacy; superiority.

   If divided by mountains, they will fight for the mastery of the passages of the tops. Sir W. Raleigh.

2. Superiority in war or competition; victory; triumph; preeminence.

   The voice of them that shout for mastery. Exodus. xxxii. 18.

   Every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. 1 Corinthians. ix. 25.

   O, but to have gulled him Had been a mastery. B. Jonson.

3. (obsolete) Contest for superiority. Holland.
4. (obsolete) A masterly operation; a feat.

   I will do a maistrie ere I go. Chaucer.

5. (obsolete) Specifically, the philosophers stone.
6. The act or process of mastering; the state of having mastered.

   He could attain to a mastery in all languages. Tillotson.

   The learning and mastery of a tongue, being unpleasant in itself, should not be cumbered with other difficulties. Locke.

Definizione dizionario mastery

	maestria
	Grande esperienza e bravura nell'esecuzione di un lavoro o nello svolgimento di un'attività.

abilità

bravura

dominio

padronanza

perizia

possesso

Altri significati:

gaining total control (of people or counties)

(obsolete) Specifically, the philosopher's stone.

The act or process of mastering; the state of having mastered.

The position or authority of a master; dominion; command; supremacy; superiority.

Superiority in war or competition; victory; triumph; preeminence.

(obsolete) Contest for superiority. Holland.

(obsolete) A masterly operation; a feat.