What's the difference between miller and millier?

Miller


Definition:

  • (n.) One who keeps or attends a flour mill or gristmill.
  • (n.) A milling machine.
  • (n.) A moth or lepidopterous insect; -- so called because the wings appear as if covered with white dust or powder, like a miller's clothes. Called also moth miller.
  • (n.) The eagle ray.
  • (n.) The hen harrier.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Data is available to support the early influences of enamel organ epithelium upon a responding mesenchyme in the determination of dental morphogenetic fields (Dryburg, 1967; Miller, 1969).
  • (2) It is an intriguing moment: the new culture secretary, Sajid Javid, who was brought in to replace Maria Miller last month, is something of an unknown quantity.
  • (3) These levels are sufficient to maintain normal in vivo rates of mRNA and rRNA synthesis, but the average density of packing of polymerases on DNA is considerably less than the maximum density predicted by Miller and Bakken (1972), suggesting that initiation of polymerases of DNA is a limiting factor in the control of transcription.
  • (4) Stuart Forman and Keith Miller describe the physiological, biophysical and molecular biological evidence pointing to the location of a discrete allosteric site on the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor at which local anesthetics act.
  • (5) 7 male and 39 female undergraduates were alternately assigned to rooms painted red or Baker-Miller Pink.
  • (6) These recent Times scoops about Obama's policies do not sink to the level of the Judy Miller debacle.
  • (7) Miller is wide wide wide wide open in the corner of the endzone.
  • (8) In the film Miller puts allegations of torture and murder to representatives of the Syrian government.
  • (9) Maybe there was a wish to go for these stronger story formulations, more extreme situations to try to get the energy up to comfortably blow the lid off.” Miller pointed out to Franzen that he has developed something of a reputation as a misanthrope.
  • (10) Earlier this fall the skier Bode Miller was one of the few American athletes to speak out against the Russian law, calling it "absolutely embarrassing".
  • (11) The document says that Sienna Miller suspected her mobile phone was not secure and changed it twice, but Mulcaire's handwritten notes show that he succeeded in obtaining the new number, account number, pin code and password for all three phones.
  • (12) The warning was issued as Miller held negotiations with the industry on the eve of an agreement by the three main parties over a royal charter, which was announced on Friday.
  • (13) These molecules may become highly substituted with phosphoglycerol moieties from the head group of phosphatidylglycerol; diglyceride is a by-product of this reaction (K. J. Miller, R. S. Gore, and A. J. Benesi, J. Bacteriol.
  • (14) An analysis of 401 gynecologic deaths occurring at the Charity Hospital of Louisianna in New Orleans from April 1961 to January 1969 was compiled for comparison with a similar study (401 fatalities) conducted at the same medical facility in 194 (Miller).
  • (15) For these reasons, it was considered unlikely that schistosomula had circulated randomly and repeatedly through the pulmonary and systemic circulations and entered the hepatic portal system by chance as hypothesized by Miller & Wilson (1980).
  • (16) Miller confirmed that GMG Radio had received offers from several interested parties.
  • (17) Tom Harkin and George Miller have a bill to fix that by lifting the minimum wage to $10.10.
  • (18) One of the things that attracted attention when Miller took up her new appointment was her record on abortion: in 2008, she voted to reduce the legal limit on abortion from 24 weeks to 20.
  • (19) infusion was started immediately after angiographic evaluation (Miller index) and was followed by anticoagulant therapy with heparin and sodium warfarin.
  • (20) They don’t have to wait three or four years for what may or may not be the marginal difference they make to the whisky product.” Miller’s gin now sells more than all his whisky products put together, making up 80% of total sales.

Millier


Definition:

  • (n.) A weight of the metric system, being one million grams; a metric ton.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In the Commons Labour's Meg Millier says this is a "complete climbdown".

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