Maestro vs. Cirrus — What's the Difference?

Maestro (; from the Italian maestro [maˈestro; maˈɛstro], meaning "master" or "teacher") is an honorific title of respect (plural: maestri, feminine: maestra). The term is most commonly used in the context of Western classical music and opera, in line with the ubiquitous use of Italian musical terms.

A high-altitude cloud composed of narrow bands or patches of thin, generally white, fleecy parts.

A master in an art, especially a composer, conductor, or music teacher.

A tendril.

A master in some art, especially a composer or conductor.

A slender flexible appendage, such as a tuft of fused cilia of certain protozoans or one of the feathery appendages of a barnacle.

(slang) A gang elder in prison.

(botany) A tendril.

A master in any art, especially in music; a composer or orchestra conductor.

(zoology) A thin tendril-like appendage.

An artist of consummate skill;

(meteorology) A principal high-level cloud type characterised by white, delicate filaments or wisps, of white (or mostly white) patches, or of narrow bands, found at an altitude of above 7000 metres.

A tendril or clasper.

A soft tactile appendage of the mantle of many Mollusca, and of the parapodia of Annelida. Those near the head of annelids are Tentacular cirri; those of the last segment are caudal cirri.

The external male organ of trematodes and some other worms, and of certain Mollusca.

See under Cloud.

Usually coiled

A wispy white cloud (usually of fine ice crystals) at a high altitude (4 to 8 miles)

A slender flexible animal appendage as on barnacles or crinoids or many insects; often tactile