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mus⋅ter

  [muhs-ter]
Use muster in a Sentence
–verb (used with object)
1. to assemble (troops, a ship's crew, etc.), as for battle, display, inspection, orders, or discharge.
2. to gather, summon, rouse (often fol. by up): He mustered all his courage.
–verb (used without object)
3. to assemble for inspection, service, etc., as troops or forces.
4. to come together; collect; assemble; gather.
–noun
5. an assembling of troops or persons for formal inspection or other purposes.
6. an assemblage or collection.
7. the act of mustering.
8. Also called muster roll. (formerly) a list of the persons enrolled in a military or naval unit.
—Verb phrases
9. muster in, to enlist into service in the armed forces.
10. muster out, to discharge from service in the armed forces: He will be mustered out of the army in only two more months.
—Idiom
11. pass muster,
a. to pass a cursory inspection.
b. to measure up to a certain standard; be adequate: Your grades don't pass muster.
Origin:
1250–1300; ME mostren (v.) < OF mostrer < L mōnstrāre to show, deriv. of mōnstrum portent; see monster

Synonyms:
1. convoke. See gather. 1, 4. convene; congregate. 5. gathering, assembly, convention.

Antonyms:
1, 4. scatter, separate.

must

1  [muhst]
–auxiliary verb
1. to be obliged or bound to by an imperative requirement: I must keep my word.
2. to be under the necessity to; need to: Animals must eat to live.
3. to be required or compelled to, as by the use or threat of force: You must obey the law.
4. to be compelled to in order to fulfill some need or achieve an aim: We must hurry if we're to arrive on time.
5. to be forced to, as by convention or the requirements of honesty: I must say, that is a lovely hat.
6. to be or feel urged to; ought to: I must buy that book.
7. to be reasonably expected to; is bound to: It must have stopped raining by now. She must be at least 60.
8. to be inevitably certain to; be compelled by nature: Everyone must die.
–verb (used without object)
9. to be obliged; be compelled: Do I have to go? I must, I suppose.
10. Archaic. (sometimes used with ellipsis of go, get, or some similar verb readily understood from the context): We must away.
–adjective
11. necessary; vital: A raincoat is must clothing in this area.
–noun
12. something necessary, vital, or required: This law is a must.
Origin:
bef. 900; ME most(e), OE mōste (past tense); c. G musste. See mote 2

Synonyms:
1. Must, ought, should express necessity or duty. Must expresses necessity or compulsion: I must attend to those patients first. Soldiers must obey orders. Ought (weaker than must) expresses obligation, duty, desirability: You ought to tell your mother. Should expresses obligation, expectation, or probability: You are not behaving as you should. Children should be taught to speak the truth. They should arrive at one o'clock.
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mus·ter   (mŭs'tər)   
v.   mus·tered, mus·ter·ing, mus·ters

v.   tr.
  1. To call (troops) together, as for inspection.
  2. To cause to come together; gather: Bring all the volunteers you can muster.
  3. To call forth; summon up: mustering up her strength for the ordeal. See Synonyms at call.
v.   intr.
To assemble or gather: mustering for inspection.
n.  
    1. A gathering, especially of troops, for service, inspection, review, or roll call.
    2. The persons assembled for such a gathering.
  2. A muster roll.
  3. A gathering or collection: a muster of business leaders at a luncheon.
  4. A flock of peacocks. See Synonyms at flock1.
Phrasal Verb(s):
muster inTo enlist or be enlisted in military service: She mustered in at the age of 18.
muster outTo discharge or be discharged from military service: He was mustered out when the war ended.

Idiom(s):
pass musterTo be judged as acceptable.

[Middle English mustren, from Old French moustrer, from Latin mōnstrāre, to show, from mōnstrum, sign, portent, from monēre, to warn; see men-1 in Indo-European roots.]
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Muster

Mus"ter\, n. [OE. moustre, OF. mostre, moustre, F. montre, LL. monstra. See Muster, v. t.]

1. Something shown for imitation; a pattern. [Obs.]

2. A show; a display. [Obs.] --Piers Plowman.

3. An assembling or review of troops, as for parade, verification of numbers, inspection, exercise, or introduction into service.

The hurried muster of the soldiers of liberty. --Hawthorne.

See how in warlike muster they appear, In rhombs, and wedges, and half-moons, and wings. --Milton.

4. The sum total of an army when assembled for review and inspection; the whole number of effective men in an army.

And the muster was thirty thousands of men. --Wyclif.

Ye publish the musters of your own bands, and proclaim them to amount of thousands. --Hooker.

5. Any assemblage or display; a gathering.

Of the temporal grandees of the realm, mentof their wives and daughters, the muster was great and splendid. --Macaulay.

Muster book, a book in which military forces are registred.

Muster file, a muster roll.

Muster master (Mil.), one who takes an account of troops, and of their equipment; a mustering officer; an inspector. [Eng.]

Muster roll (Mil.), a list or register of all the men in a company, troop, or regiment, present or accounted for on the day of muster.

To pass muster, to pass through a muster or inspection without censure.

Such excuses will not pass muster with God. --South.

Muster

Mus"ter\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Mustered; p. pr. & vb. n. Mustering.] [OE. mustren, prop., to show, OF. mostrer, mustrer, moustrer, monstrer, F. montrer, fr. L. monstrare to show. See Monster.]

1. To collect and display; to assemble, as troops for parade, inspection, exercise, or the like. --Spenser.

2. Hence: To summon together; to enroll in service; to get together. "Mustering all its force." --Cowper.

All the gay feathers he could muster. --L'Estrange.

To muster troops into service (Mil.), to inspect and enter troops on the muster roll of the army.

To muster troops out of service (Mil.), to register them for final payment and discharge.

To muster up, to gather up; to succeed in obtaining; to obtain with some effort or difficulty.

One of those who can muster up sufficient sprightliness to engage in a game of forfeits. --Hazlitt.

Muster

Mus"ter\, v. i. To be gathered together for parade, inspection, exercise, or the like; to come together as parts of a force or body; as, his supporters mustered in force. "The mustering squadron." --Byron.
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Language Translation for : muster
Spanish: reunir(se),
German: antreten lassen,
Japanese: 召集する
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muster  (v.)
c.1300, "to display, reveal, appear," from O.Fr. mostrer (modern Fr. montrer), from L. monstrare "to show," from monstrum "omen, sign" (see monster). Noun meaning "act of gathering troops" is c.1400. To pass musters (1575) originally meant "to undergo military review without censure." To muster out "gather to be discharged from military service" is 1834, Amer.Eng. To muster up in the fig. and transf. sense of "gather, summon, marshal" is from 1628.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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muster

In addition to the idiom beginning with muster, also see pass muster.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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