(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.
Sir
Definition:
(n.) A man of social authority and dignity; a lord; a master; a gentleman; -- in this sense usually spelled sire.
(n.) A title prefixed to the Christian name of a knight or a baronet.
(n.) An English rendering of the LAtin Dominus, the academical title of a bachelor of arts; -- formerly colloquially, and sometimes contemptuously, applied to the clergy.
(n.) A respectful title, used in addressing a man, without being prefixed to his name; -- used especially in speaking to elders or superiors; sometimes, also, used in the way of emphatic formality.
Example Sentences:
(1) Businesses fleeing Brexit will head to New York not EU, warns LSE chief Read more Amid attempts by Frankfurt, Paris and Dublin to catch possible fallout from London, Sir Jon Cunliffe said it was highly unlikely that any EU centre could replicate the services offered by the UK’s financial services industry.
(2) However the imagery is more complex, because scholars believe it also relates to another cherished pre-Raphaelite Arthurian legend, Sir Degrevaunt who married his mortal enemy's daughter.
(3) At the moment the MPA makes the appointments in consultation with the Met commissioner, Sir Paul Stephenson.
(4) It has also been given to Sir Andrew Large, a former deputy governor of the Bank of England, whose report on lending failures by RBS will also be released on Monday.
(5) There on the street is Young Jo whose last words were, "I am wery symbolic, sir."
(6) It will form part of an investigation launched by the cabinet secretary, Sir Jeremy Heywood, on the orders of David Cameron to determine the British government's actions over the raid on Sikhism's holiest site in Amritsar.
(7) Sir James Crosby, the ITV senior independent non-executive director, explained why the board had opted to retain Grade's services for an extra year: "It was the unanimous view of ITV's independent non-executive directors that it would be in the best interests of the company and its shareholders to ask Michael to extend his time as executive chairman.
(8) Updated at 1.58pm BST 12.43pm BST Sir Malcolm Bruce, MP for Gordon, says there has been "a degree of intransigence" on both sides at Grangemouth, leading to today's closure.
(9) At a private meeting last Tuesday, Hunt assured Cameron and the cabinet secretary, Sir Jeremy Heywood, that he had not been aware that his special adviser, Adam Smith, was systematically leaking information and advice to News Corp about its bid for BSkyB.
(10) Yesterday streams of worshippers and tourists entered Sir Christopher Wren's building for Sunday services, apparently unconcerned by events outside.
(11) With respect to Sir Jimmy, those who proclaim the age of the train rarely get it right.
(12) The Dacre review panel, which included Sir Joseph Pilling, a retired senior civil servant, and the historian Prof Sir David Cannadine, said Britain now had one of the "less liberal" regimes in Europe for access to confidential government papers and that reform was needed to restore some trust between politicians and people.
(13) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Whether Sia, Jason Derulo, Coldplay’s Chris Martin or Sir Elton John is in the passenger seat, Corden plays the part of a real fan with a deep knowledge of their discography.
(14) We have the president of the tribunal, Sir Michael Burton, arguing that his work needs to be done in secret to secure the trust and co-operation of the intelligence services – but what about the trust of the British people and the confidence of the lawyers who seek to establish the rights of ordinary members of the public?
(15) The four members of the committee are all masters of wine, and the chairman is a retired diplomat, Sir David Wright.
(16) The validity of the response of this probe to Y-90 and its clinical application were assessed with a phantom containing varying activities and with biopsy samples obtained from patients being treated with SIR therapy.
(17) Sir James Crosby, the chief executive until 2006, was forced to resign as deputy chairman of the Financial Services Authority after the Treasury select committee produced allegations by a whistleblower that the bank was "going too fast".
(18) Leading figures including the musician Sting, business tycoon Sir Richard Branson and comedian Russell Brand have called for the possession of drugs to be decriminalised.
(19) Sir Philip Green has interesting tax arrangements but far from being labelled morally repugnant in a Mexico TV studio, he has got a government review to head up," she said.
(20) When last week’s scandal broke, Tesco chair Sir Richard Broadbent airily opined: “Things are always unnoticed until they are noticed.” He forgot to mention that that goes double if people are paid to turn a blind eye.