Master

Master, masters and the Master may refer to:

Ranks and titles

• 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 boys and young men, in formal correspondence
• Dharma master, an honorific title for Buddhist monks and nuns
• 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
• Worshipful Master, the governing authority over a Masonic Lodge

Fictional characters

• Master (Manos), the head villain in the horror movie Manos: The Hands of Fate
• Masters (The Tripods), a fictional race of beings in John Christopher's The Tripods trilogy
• Master of the Land of Fiction, a villain from the Doctor Who serial The Mind Robber
• Master (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), a recurring villain in the fantasy television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer
• Master (Fallout), a character in the computer game Fallout (video game)
• The Master (Doctor Who), a recurring villain in the science fiction television series Doctor Who
• The Master, the player's character in the SNES game ActRaiser and its follow-up ActRaiser 2
• The Master, an optional three-time boss Toad Sensei in Paper Mario
• The Master, a title character in the novel The Master and Margarita
• The Master, the main (and mostly absent) villain from Power Rangers Mystic Force
• The Master, a character from the adult swim television series The Venture Bros.

Film and television

• Master (film), a 1997 Telugu-language film
• Masters (film), a 2011 Malayalam thriller
• The Master (1980 film), directed by Lu Chin Ku
• The Master (1989 film), directed by Tsui Hark
• The Master (1995 film), a Syrian documentary film by Omar Amiralay
• The Master (2005 film), directed by Piotr Trzaskalski
• The Master (2009 film), a Turkish film
• The Master (2012 film), a film by Paul Thomas Anderson
• The Master (2015 film), a Chinese film directed by Xu Haofeng
• The Master (Australian quiz show), a 2006 Australian quiz show
• The Master (Indonesia TV series), a 2009 magic show Television series
• The Master (TV series), a 1984 television series starring Lee Van Cleef

Literature

• The Master, an 1895 best-selling novel by Israel Zangwill
• The Masters (novel), a 1951 novel in the Strangers and Brothers sequence by C. P. Snow
• The Master: An Adventure Story, a 1957 science fiction novel for children by T. H. White
• The Master (novel), a 2004 novel by Colm Tóibín

Music and audio

• Master (American band), a Czech-American death metal band
• Master (Russian band), a Russian thrash metal band
• Nickname of Bojan Adamič, a Slovene film score, jazz and pop composer

Albums

• Master (Doctor Who audio)
• The Master (1961–1984), a box set album by Marvin Gaye
• The Master, 2010 box set by Ravi Shankar
• The Master (Rakim album)
• The Masters (The Stranglers album)
• The Masters, album by The Dubliners

Sport

• Australian Masters, an Australian golf tournament
• Masters athletics, a competition age classification used by many sports
• Masters Cup (disc golf), an annual event on the disc golf PDGA tour
• The Masters (darts), a darts tournament in the Professional Darts Corporation
• 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 prestigious tournament held in London
• Masters Tournament, one of golf's four major championships
• Winmau World Masters, the world's oldest darts tournament
• "Master Masami" Hirosaka, Japanese radio-controlled racer
• The Master, wrestler King Curtis Iaukea's name held in 1995.

Tennis

• 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
• WTA Tour Championships, season ending women's professional tour tournament; sometimes informally called "Masters" in analogy of the men's year-end event.

Other uses

• 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
• Master's, as in Master's Academy & College

See also

• Grandmaster (disambiguation)
• Maestro (disambiguation)
• Masters (surname)
• Marsters (surname)
• Meister (surname)
• Miss (disambiguation)
• Mister (disambiguation)
• Mistress (disambiguation)
• Metal Master (disambiguation)