What's the difference between mitt and mitten?

Mitt


Definition:

  • (n.) A mitten; also, a covering for the wrist and hand and not for the fingers.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This suggests his wealth exceeds the total worth of 2012 GOP nominee Mitt Romney, who was attacked for his wealth throughout the campaign.
  • (2) It is claimed that Mitt Romney, the Republican presidential candidate, was "starstruck" by his association with Eastwood and that the film-maker's speech was not vetted beforehand.
  • (3) That's Mitt Romney, the man with a car elevator and multiple homes.
  • (4) 3.46am BST Here's the instant response from Ewen MacAskill , at the scene of the debate-crime: Barack Obama staged a strong comeback in his second showdown with Mitt Romney, with the president describing his Republican opponent as "offensive" in suggesting he was playing politics over Benghazi and portraying him as more extreme than George W Bush on social issues such as women's rights.
  • (5) 5.32pm GMT South Carolina governor Nikki Haley has come out... to introduce Mitt Romney?
  • (6) Republicans were supposed to learn from Mitt Romney but I don’t think they did.” Allegations of rigging were widespread, even though a vote has not yet been cast, but few were willing to predict what kind of backlash there would be.
  • (7) His move so close to the election is likely to draw fire from Republican critics, though a response to the announcement from presidential candidate Mitt Romney was notable by its absence.
  • (8) During the 2012 presidential election, Republican nominee Mitt Romney regularly liked to joke that President Obama wanted the US economy to look "more like Europe".
  • (9) Republican Mitt Romney, for example, raised $18.4m in his first three months of the 2012 campaign.
  • (10) 7.00pm GMT Fifth question : has the president had the discussion with Mitt Romney that he promised he would on election night?
  • (11) Mitt Romney's historic gaffe caught on video – published, with great timing, by the left-leaning Mother Jones magazine – in which he said that his campaign was writing off 47% of American voters since they "depended on government" handouts, was committed in an equally significant manner, as he delivered the remarks to a closed group of potential major donors in Florida.
  • (12) What the papers say The Economist (for Obama) "A man who once personified hope and centrism set a new low by unleashing attacks on Mitt Romney even before the first Republican primary.
  • (13) Mitt Romney praises Trump after 'deal with the devil' dinner Read more “It’s not about revenge, it’s about what’s good for the country, and I’m able to put this stuff behind us,” Trump said in a television interview on NBC’s Today show on Friday.
  • (14) Obama doesn't have much to say, and neither does Mitt Romney but after that Libya cock-up his brain is mush and he starts going on about two parent families – what?
  • (15) The Romney Family Table is available online and in bookstores now, and could serve as the perfect Christmas gift for anyone who likes Mitt Romney, or likes seeing pictures of someone else's happy, gorgeous family, or simply is determined to ensure that the Romneys don't just dissolve into obscurity.
  • (16) That would be strike out it seems, as Napoli foul-tips one into the catcher's mitt, the first strikeout for Matt Moore.
  • (17) But as Republicans grapple with how to respond to groups like Black Lives Matter, they risk inflicting the kind of harm that in 2012 earned GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney just 6% of the African American vote.
  • (18) So far the Republican primary has spoiled us, from Rick Perry's "oops" to corporate asset-stripper Mitt Romney's admission that he liked firing people, delivered just before he was snapped apparently receiving a sit-down shoe-shine from an underling – not a good look for a would-be man of the people.
  • (19) October 17, 2012 2.21am BST Oh, a bit of a to-do between Macho Mitt and Obama, over federal licenses and oil drilling, and Mitt's looking a bit Al Gore 2000 here, wandering around being all aggro and complaining about the rules.
  • (20) Where we already have the electoral numbers, our political vengeance has been merciless against the GOP; witness California after its electoral dalliance with anti-immigrant policies or Mitt Romney’s disastrous 2012 campaign .

Mitten


Definition:

  • (n.) A covering for the hand, worn to defend it from cold or injury. It differs from a glove in not having a separate sheath for each finger.
  • (n.) A cover for the wrist and forearm.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We report two children with finger tip ischaemia resulting from woollen mittens.
  • (2) Romney should totally come out with a ventriloquist's puppet called Mr Mittens and channel all answers through him.
  • (3) The majority of the toe and external genitalia cases were caused by hair, whereas the majority of finger strangulations were caused by thread from mittens.
  • (4) TGF-alpha interacts with the receptor as a mitten would grasp an object.
  • (5) The VHD is a circular fabric mitten, which is held easily by inserting the hand between the two surfaces.
  • (6) Neil Franklyn (Stoke and England) and Charlie Mitten (Man Utd), amongst others, took the money and ran.
  • (7) He missed the place: the cold, the skating rinks, the desperate need for mittens in winter.
  • (8) Although the mitten appeared largely to be clinically separated from the underlying fixed digits, histology showed mostly normal keratinocytes beneath a thickened stratum corneum.
  • (9) There is only loveliness, along with a puppy in mittens, a palpable respect for tradition and a gentle, hand-drawn tale so imbued with the wonder of childhood it will charm baubles from trees and coax tears from coffee tables.
  • (10) Anderson made the “safe” sign after landing her final jump and flipped her right mitten in the air before exchanging hugs with Rukajarvi, Jones and Switzerland’s Sina Candrian.
  • (11) Light and electron microscopy and indirect immunofluorescence techniques were used to study the nature of the mitten deformity in five adult patients with severe generalized recessive dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa undergoing release of hand and finger contractures.
  • (12) A substantial portion of the mitten, however, consisted of necrotic keratinocytes without an intact basement membrane.
  • (13) Re-analyses of mitten incidence in schizophrenics and nonschizophrenics suggests needed modification of our earlier B-Mitten-schizophrenia formulation.
  • (14) Warner’s broadcast was called The Gloves Are Off , leading to Oliver, who has been a staunch and witty critic of Fifa for some time, largely in his role as presenter of the US show Last Week Tonight , to call his The Mittens of Disapproval Are On.
  • (15) That the mitten pattern possibly suggests as yet unclarified subcortical dysfunction associated with symptoms of affective disturbance is a tentative hypothesis offered for consideration.
  • (16) As to the apple, the eating was tricky, since my hands were tied to my waist and I wore mittens.
  • (17) Top tip Be sure to get out of the car and experience some this wide-open landscape on foot via the 3.2-mile Wildcat trail, around the West Mitten butte.
  • (18) As several of you pointed out, Ronaldo is the highest-profile player to have matched Mitten's achievement.
  • (19) Real Madrid attempted to entice Mitten, Di Stefano and Rial to the Bernabéu in 1951, but Mitten's wife was homesick, so they headed home.
  • (20) We found a possible relationship between the subcortical B-mitten EEG pattern and TD.