What's the difference between mitten and mittent?

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.

Mittent


Definition:

  • (a.) Sending forth; emitting.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Bio-mittent programme offered a computed advantage of 14.4% fewer hours of light usage compared to the Cornell programme.
  • (2) The egg production of hens exposed to the Cornell lighting was reduced compared to the Bio-mittent programme.
  • (3) Body weights were significantly greater for hens exposed to the Bio-mittent programme during both phases I and II.
  • (4) In both television and newspapers, there will be an attempt to reduce the cruelty and glee that have been central to both the production and the coverage of reality TV but, here as well, you wonder if the poison is in the water and nastiness – with inter- mittent outbreaks of sentimental guilt – is now a part of what we do.

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