What's the difference between hatter and shatter?

Hatter


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To tire or worry; -- out.
  • (n.) One who makes or sells hats.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The idea that hatters were "mad" stemmed from popular perceptions more than from medical knowledge.
  • (2) Donald Trump’s mad hatter ramblings are outside the conservative reform movement and we will continue onward to deny him the nomination.” Kasich did not compete in Indiana as a result of a pact with Cruz and has so far only won his home state of Ohio.
  • (3) You can watch as "the Mad Hatter gets even madder", and throw pepper at the Duchess.
  • (4) Its ground floor is decorated only in yellow, its first floor only in red; there’s Cole Porter on the gramophone and the Hatter himself serving in full costume.
  • (5) To our left sat a stolid middle-aged black couple in the Mad Hatter attire that has become part of the South African football fan's kit.
  • (6) Conventional wisdom holds that the "Mad Hatter" of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland earned his name because he exhibited psychotic behavior from mercury poisoning.
  • (7) The reviewer gave me two stars, the same day I got a tweet off the rabbit asking if he could bring the Mad Hatter and the Dormouse to my show.
  • (8) Discussed are coal miners' nystagmus, scrotal cancer in chimney sweeps, phossy jaw, hatters' shakes, painters' colic, potters' rot, chauffeurs' knee, glanders, caisson disease, and others.
  • (9) Many of those attending wore costumes depicting the Mad Hatter, Wonder Woman or the scary rabbit character from the cult movie Donnie Darko .
  • (10) Depp, who only last week agreed to play Charlie Mortdecai in a film based on Kyril Bonfiglioli's books about the eccentric and debonair English art dealer, will once again portray the Mad Hatter in Hollywood's latest riff on the classic Lewis Carroll tale.
  • (11) I can’t really see the terrific Cabinet Battle #1 (“Madison, you’re mad as a hatter, son, take your medicine.
  • (12) The hatters' occupational disease was curbed only in 1941 when mercury was required for the manufacture of detonators in World War II.
  • (13) The Mad Hatter’s Tea Party The choreographer Kate Prince has drawn on fairy tales, Shakespeare and the musical theatre of Stephen Sondheim in her crusade to mine the theatrical and family friendship possibilities of hip-hop.
  • (14) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Royal Ballet’s Steven McRae, left, and Turbo from ZooNation join forces for The Mad Hatter’s Tea Party.
  • (15) From Edward Scissorhands' gothic pallor to Jack Sparrow's guyliner-friendly swashbuckling, his rose-tinted Mad Hatter to his dazzle-painted Tonto, Johnny Depp has always been partial to a bit of greasepaint.
  • (16) The hatters of New Jersey were not only not mad, but neither were they, the physicians, nor the public of the period sufficiently angry to control the conditions under which the hatters worked.
  • (17) Baron Cohen is also preparing to play the villain, Time, in the forthcoming sequel to Alice in Wonderland, with Johnny Depp reprising his Mad Hatter role alongside Helena Bonham Carter and Mia Wasikowska.
  • (18) Nearby is the eccentric Mad Hatter’s Tea Rooms (9 Lombard Street), a shrine to vintage.
  • (19) And then there’s returns for his Mad Hatter and Jack Sparrow, a pair of cast-iron hits.
  • (20) The pathologic shyness of mercurialism, however, was not noted in New Jersey hatters until 1912.

Shatter


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To break at once into many pieces; to dash, burst, or part violently into fragments; to rend into splinters; as, an explosion shatters a rock or a bomb; too much steam shatters a boiler; an oak is shattered by lightning.
  • (v. t.) To disorder; to derange; to render unsound; as, to be shattered in intellect; his constitution was shattered; his hopes were shattered.
  • (v. t.) To scatter about.
  • (v. i.) To be broken into fragments; to fall or crumble to pieces by any force applied.
  • (n.) A fragment of anything shattered; -- used chiefly or soley in the phrase into shatters; as, to break a glass into shatters.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Sacked Cronulla star Todd Carney said he was shattered when he learned a picture of him urinating in his own mouth in a nightclub toilet had been posted on social media.
  • (2) In a sign of deep unease among senior Tories at some of the party’s tactics, Forsyth accused the prime minister of having “shattered” the pro-UK alliance in Scotland and stirring up English nationalism after the Scottish independence referendum last year.
  • (3) Many of the windows in the road shattered.” This was France’s – and western Europe’s – first ever female suicide bombing.
  • (4) Faster than ever we could deal with them these shattered men were coming in, and yet across the few acres of snow before me the busy guns were making more.
  • (5) Filo pastry contains very little fat itself but relies on fat being added later in between incredibly fine sheets, allowing them to separate during cooking, and so shatter in the mouth into fine delicate shards.
  • (6) Glasgow Central station was also closed to the public after flying debris shattered part of the building's glass roof.
  • (7) Speaking to the Guardian, Ghavami’s brother Iman, 28, said the family felt “shattered” by the court verdict.
  • (8) While Goma did not experience the worst of the fighting, the M23 movement diverted government funds away from the provision of basic services and shattered hopes of a lasting peace.
  • (9) Whether the issue is homosexuality, divorce, abortion, euthanasia or equal marriage, religion has the power to shatter party discipline.
  • (10) I know we have still not shattered that highest and hardest glass ceiling, but I know someday someone will and hopefully sooner than we might think right now,” she added.
  • (11) The bombings shattered more than two months of relative calm across the restive country.
  • (12) Bishop is also visiting a country that is still enduring the ongoing trauma associated with the Fukushima earthquake and tsunami and the worst nuclear disaster of modern times – a disaster that, three years on, has left the region comprised of ghost towns and shattered lives.
  • (13) Most of the economic news since the idea of more QE was first floated in August has been better than expected, if not exactly earth-shattering.
  • (14) The man behind the Cillit Bang kitchen cleaner has shattered British records for executive pay after taking home more then £90m in cash and shares in one year.
  • (15) • • • In real life, I knew a man once who was the exact opposite of The Red Pill in every regard, and he shattered everything that I believed I knew about men.
  • (16) Their composure was shattered from the moment Alex McCarthy gifted the visitors an equaliser, all authority wrested away in the blink of an eye and Liverpool , suddenly focused where previously they had been limp and ineffective, the more persuasive threat in what time that remained.
  • (17) That split came about after Murdoch's newspaper business was shattered by the hacking scandal that rocked his empire and led to the arrest of some of his closest allies and his public humiliation.
  • (18) "The only glass ceiling that remains is in the process of shattering, and that is that we cannot show what we can do, we don't have a record.
  • (19) The fragile truce between José Mourinho and Arsène Wenger has finally been shattered after the Chelsea manager denounced his counterpart at Arsenal as "a specialist in failure".
  • (20) For Ali, the Kenyan court case aims to shatter the notion that rape can be carried out with impunity.