MUSTER (muster)

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Irregular inflected form: muster   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does muster mean? 

• MUSTER (noun)
  The noun MUSTER has 2 senses:

1. a gathering of military personnel for duty

2. compulsory military service

  Familiarity information: MUSTER used as a noun is rare.

• MUSTER (verb)
  The verb MUSTER has 2 senses:

1. gather or bring together

2. call to duty, military service, jury duty, etc.

  Familiarity information: MUSTER used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MUSTER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A gathering of military personnel for duty

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Context example:

he was thrown in the brig for missing muster

Hypernyms ("muster" is a kind of...):

assemblage; gathering (a group of persons together in one place)

Domain category:

armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)

Derivation:

muster (call to duty, military service, jury duty, etc.)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Compulsory military service

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

conscription; draft; muster; selective service

Hypernyms ("muster" is a kind of...):

militarisation; militarization; mobilisation; mobilization (act of assembling and putting into readiness for war or other emergency:)

Domain category:

armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "muster"):

levy; levy en masse (the act of drafting into military service)

Derivation:

muster (call to duty, military service, jury duty, etc.)

• MUSTER (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they muster    ... he / she / it musters   
Past simple: mustered   
Past participle: mustered   
-ing form: mustering   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Gather or bring together

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

come up; muster; muster up; rally; summon

Context example:

Summon all your courage

Hypernyms (to "muster" is one way to...):

collect; garner; gather; pull together (assemble or get together)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Call to duty, military service, jury duty, etc.

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "muster" is one way to...):

call; send for (order, request, or command to come)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

muster (compulsory military service)

muster (a gathering of military personnel for duty)

 Context examples 

Shall they not muster at her call?

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Now, for such a case as the one which has been submitted to us to-night, we need certainly to muster all our resources.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This will be true even if all you can muster is a few nights away with the one you love.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

The insight gained in the new study is important step toward mustering a milder mustard or building a bitter-free broccoli.

(Is a milder mustard on the way?, National Science Foundation)

Not more than five couple could be mustered; but the rarity and the suddenness of it made it very delightful, and she found herself well matched in a partner.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

By five o'clock, which was Mr. Wickfield's dinner-hour, I had mustered up my spirits again, and was ready for my knife and fork.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The third showed the pinnacle of an iceberg piercing a polar winter sky: a muster of northern lights reared their dim lances, close serried, along the horizon.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

She said that there might be some law matter in which I could be useful; that amongst the Count's papers might be some clue which I could understand out of my experience in Transylvania; and that, as it was, all the strength we could muster was required to cope with the Count's extraordinary power.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Between the acts he mustered his following—three fellows he knew from the nail works, a railroad fireman, and half a dozen of the Boo Gang, along with as many more from the dread Eighteen-and-Market Gang.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

And I showed him an example, and sat down myself in my customary seat and with as fair an imitation of my ordinary manner to a patient, as the lateness of the hour, the nature of my preoccupations, and the horror I had of my visitor, would suffer me to muster.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)