What's the difference between mister and miter?

Mister


Definition:

  • (n.) A title of courtesy prefixed to the name of a man or youth. It is usually written in the abbreviated form Mr.
  • (v. t.) To address or mention by the title Mr.; as, he mistered me in a formal way.
  • (n.) A trade, art, or occupation.
  • (n.) Manner; kind; sort.
  • (n.) Need; necessity.
  • (v. i.) To be needful or of use.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The form of address for British surgeons--"Mister" instead of "Doctor"--has mystified other members of the medical profession for years.
  • (2) Even if he is Il Mister, this is an extraordinary thing for a manager of Juventus to say, maybe even a nod to the possibility of returning to the Premier League one day.
  • (3) Lippi's spectre came into sharper focus after the Fiorentina defeat, with whispers across the pages of the football press and furious blogging to and fro on Juve's website - echoing Ranieri's Chelsea days, actually, with most fans urging support for Il Mister and concentration on the matter in hand, whatever the long term.
  • (4) MisterRed 07 May 2014 6:46pm Leeds: LSD and a couple of E's 77E112E1240H 07 May 2014 8:34pm Rotterdam - Bring Your Own Beaver.
  • (5) What is certain is that the fans of Leicester will sing painted blue and that Ranieri is Mister Volare,” he said.
  • (6) The author attempts to show that the designation "Mister" is neither an affectation nor a denigration but a natural consequence of the history of British barbery, barber-surgery and ultimately surgery, resulting from the advice and tutelage of King Henry VIII and Parliament.
  • (7) Mister, I cannot breathe …” One of the soldiers came and untightened the belt, not very comfortably but better than nothing.
  • (8) He was mister nobody, people found it difficult to accept him."
  • (9) One of his motivations was Cary's Nigeria-set novel Mister Johnson, which, though much praised by English critics, seemed to him "a most superficial picture of Nigeria and the Nigerian character".
  • (10) Mister, please … belt …” A guard responded, but he not only didn’t help me, he tightened the belt even more around my abdomen.
  • (11) While the second novel takes up and retells the plot of Mister Johnson – the story of a young Nigerian clerk who takes a bribe and is tried and sentenced by the colonial administration – the first seeks, with consummate success, to evoke the culture and society Mister Johnson and his ancestors might have come from.
  • (12) At 13, he spent a week in London, where he found a paperback of Alan Lomax ’s Mister Jelly Roll: The Fortunes of Jelly Roll Morton, New Orleans Creole and Inventor of Jazz ; the cover promised to explain how “he put the heat into hot music”.
  • (13) (Pierce, aka J Spaceman, produced the wonderfully weird soundtrack for Mister Lonely.)
  • (14) His Nashville-born wife appears in Mister Lonely, as a girl who impersonates Little Red Riding Hood.
  • (15) He's obviously worried I'm going to turn him into some kind of tabloid caricature - Mister Happy turns his back on smack - and seeks to put the record straight.
  • (16) With its wit and side order of double entendre – "Oh mister, don't touch me tomatoes" – calypso fitted easily into the national psyche.
  • (17) 2.15am GMT Michael Solomon (@Mister_Solomon) Is it possible the Tigers caught something from the Yankees?
  • (18) Where Ronald Reagan had stood in front of the Berlin Wall and cried, “Mister Gorbachev, tear down this wall!”, Clinton stood in the Newseum in Washington and cried, in effect, “Mister Hu, tear down this firewall!” But Xi Jinping succeeded Hu Jintao, and China’s internet firewall – sorry, “Golden Shield” – is still there.
  • (19) I’m talking to the Labour party.” Please, Mister Postman review – a charming sequel from Alan Johnson Read more This is an unavoidable tightrope.
  • (20) They mostly boil down to inter-male rivalries and hierarchies of masculinity – the pecker pecking order, if you will: the bigger the mister, the bigger the man.

Miter


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Mitre
  • (v. t.) Alt. of Mitre
  • (v. i.) Alt. of Mitre

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In contrast, TCP from Miter, Inc. (Synthograft) raised a delayed type hypersensitivity (DTH) 24 hr after antigen elicitation.
  • (2) Comparisons were made by using Branemark, Core-Vent, Denar, Miter, Stryker, and experimental implant designs.
  • (3) Autogenous PMCB obtained from the ilium and TCPC (Synthograft, Miter, Inc. U.S.A.) were grafted in each resected area.