(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.
Muster
Definition:
(v. t.) Something shown for imitation; a pattern.
(v. t.) A show; a display.
(v. t.) An assembling or review of troops, as for parade, verification of numbers, inspection, exercise, or introduction into service.
(v. t.) The sum total of an army when assembled for review and inspection; the whole number of effective men in an army.
(v. t.) Any assemblage or display; a gathering.
(v. t.) To collect and display; to assemble, as troops for parade, inspection, exercise, or the like.
(v. t.) Hence: To summon together; to enroll in service; to get together.
(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.
Example Sentences:
(1) The hosts had resisted through the early stages, emulating their rugged first-half displays against Manchester United and Arsenal here this season, and even mustered a flurry of half-chances just before the interval to offer a reminder they might glean greater reward thereafter.
(2) After I pointed this out, even with all the racist retorts he could muster, being told “he’s got you there mate” by his friends was the knockout that saved the night.
(3) A formation featuring Mile Jedinak playing just in front of the back four suggested a draw would suit them just fine, and a horribly sterile first half, during which each team mustered precisely one shot on goal, confirmed as much.
(4) But while the imprisoned activists and their supporters are fervently hoping that the Queen of Pop will use her Russian platform (Olimpiyskiy stadium, which is a pretty big one) to make a strong statement in their support, so far all she's been able to muster in public is a remark that she's "sorry that they've been arrested".
(5) The Jobseekers Act 1995 made this requirement explicit in relation to work schemes and it was on this basis that the court found that the sketchy 2011 regulations failed to pass muster.
(6) Reding may be hoping that she can muster enough support in the parliament to challenge the national governments and force them to back down.
(7) The radical republican group Eirigi could only muster around 150 demonstrators at the southern end of Parnell Square.
(8) Though his bloc emerged with the largest number of seats in the 328-seat parliament, it is difficult to see from where he could muster the numbers he needs.
(9) Yes, it’s been quite a banner season for the collective of self-identifying core gamers who gather on forums to muster shared fury.
(10) It was brutally hard on the home team, who had dominated the first half and created further chances in the second, including one for Traoré on 85 minutes, when he could not muster enough power in a close-range header.
(11) While Liverpool seemed stretched by cruel successive away fixtures, Chelsea arguably mustered some of their finest attacking football of the campaign through that ferocious opening period.
(12) The Andre documentary proved more popular than BBC2's struggling US drama import Defying Gravity, which could muster only 700,000 viewers and a 3% share in the same slot.
(13) This might pass muster if we were merely letting sleeping dogs lie.
(14) "After consideration of the bill and having applied my mind thereto, I am of the view that the bill as it stands does not pass constitutional muster."
(15) They didn't manage to muster a threat but the mere fact that they prevented Celtic from getting off a shot for a few minutes has audibly raised the tension in the crowd ... 8.03pm BST 18 min: "I hope that the distance travelled explains Celtic's result last week," blubs Ian Kay.
(16) Chaffetz expressed his dissatisfaction with the status quo in the House GOP caucus and said: “Realistically, we can’t vote to promote the existing leadership.” He also suggested that while McCarthy could muster support from a majority of House Republicans in a secret ballot, he would be unable to get the absolute majority of congressmen in a vote on the floor of the House.
(17) Even after giving ground on the bill, the White House and Democrats were forced to go to extraordinary lengths to muster enough support for passage.
(18) City had never previously lost a Premier League game when their thrilling Argentinian had scored and, had David Silva not been guilty of over-elaborating and Javi García mustered a more convincing header from the Spaniard's free-kick delivery, that record might have been maintained.
(19) The biggest problem of all is a political one: the Bank is in charge of securing a recovery with whatever technical armoury it can muster; the government makes cuts and invests token sums in new projects.
(20) Photograph: Mike Bowers for The Guardian The government had its first win: Parry easily secured the job of the new president, with 63 votes, while Ludlam mustered support from only 10 senators.