What's the difference between sir and superior?

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.

Superior


Definition:

  • (a.) More elevated in place or position; higher; upper; as, the superior limb of the sun; the superior part of an image.
  • (a.) Higher in rank or office; more exalted in dignity; as, a superior officer; a superior degree of nobility.
  • (a.) Higher or greater in excellence; surpassing others in the greatness, or value of any quality; greater in quality or degree; as, a man of superior merit; or of superior bravery.
  • (a.) Beyond the power or influence of; too great or firm to be subdued or affected by; -- with to.
  • (a.) More comprehensive; as a term in classification; as, a genus is superior to a species.
  • (a.) Above the ovary; -- said of parts of the flower which, although normally below the ovary, adhere to it, and so appear to originate from its upper part; also of an ovary when the other floral organs are plainly below it in position, and free from it.
  • (a.) Belonging to the part of an axillary flower which is toward the main stem; posterior.
  • (a.) Pointing toward the apex of the fruit; ascending; -- said of the radicle.
  • (n.) One who is above, or surpasses, another in rank, station, office, age, ability, or merit; one who surpasses in what is desirable; as, Addison has no superior as a writer of pure English.
  • (n.) The head of a monastery, convent, abbey, or the like.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The bank tellers who saw their positions filled by male superiors took special pleasure in going to the bank and keeping them busy.
  • (2) Intravesical BCG is clearly superior to oral BCG, and controlled studies have demonstrated that percutaneous administration is not necessary.
  • (3) This is an easy, safe, and rapid alternative for the emergent treatment of superior vena caval syndrome.
  • (4) The insertions of the sternocleidomastoid, the splenius capitis, the longissimus capitis and the obliquus capitis superior muscles were measured.
  • (5) Long term follow up of extracapsular extraction showed visual results superior to those previously reported for intracapsular extraction.
  • (6) The guanethidine treatment resulted in an 86% absolute reduction in cell number in the superior cervical ganglia of 15 day old rats.
  • (7) The superior mesenteric artery and the abdominal aorta made the mean angle of 35.5 degree in patients with normal left renal vein, the mean angle of 45.4 degrees in those with left renal vein compression without nutcracker phenomenon, and the mean angle of 11.9 degrees in those with nutcracker phenomenon.
  • (8) While the heaviest anterogradely labeled ascending projections were observed to the contralateral ventral posterolateral nucleus of the thalamus, pars oralis (VPLo), efferent projections were also observed to the contralateral ventrolateral thalamic nucleus (VLc) and central lateral (CL) nucleus of the thalamic intralaminar complex, magnocellular (and to a lesser extent parvicellular) red nucleus, nucleus of Darkschewitsch, zona incerta, nucleus of the posterior commissure, lateral intermediate layer and deep layer of the superior colliculus, dorsolateral periaqueductal gray, contralateral nucleus reticularis tegmenti pontis and basilar pontine nuclei (especially dorsal and peduncular), and dorsal (DAO) and medial (MAO) accessory olivary nuclei, ipsilateral lateral (external) cuneate nucleus (LCN) and lateral reticular nucleus (LRN), and to a lesser extent the caudal medial vestibular nucleus (MVN) and caudal nucleus prepositus hypoglossi (NPH), and dorsal medullary raphe.
  • (9) It is usually associated with a left superior caval vein draining into the coronary sinus and is frequently part of a complex congenital malformation of the heart.
  • (10) Following injections of HRP into the apex of the heart, the sinoatrial (SA) nodal region and the ventral wall of the right ventricle, we observed that HRP-labeled sympathetic neurons were localized predominantly in the right stellate ganglia, and to a lesser extent, in the right superior and middle cervical ganglia, and left stellate ganglia.
  • (11) Superior results have been achieved utilizing alternative regimens that include VP-16, the most effective new agent.
  • (12) Both SUC and CIM were superior to placebo (p less than .001).
  • (13) The molar refractivity has been shown to be a superior parameter for the description of the activity of sulphonamides than the sum of electronegativities of atoms making up a heterocyclic substituent in the sulphonamide molecule and molecular weight of the substituent.
  • (14) In this study, the overall effect of amiodarone on ventricular arrhythmias following MI was shown to be superior to that of propranolol.
  • (15) This early elevation in IOP was significantly more pronounced in bilateral superior cervical ganglionectomized (BG) rabbits.
  • (16) Key therapeutic questions are whether beta-lactams can safely replace aminoglycosides for the treatment of gram-negative pneumonia, and whether monotherapy or aminoglycoside and beta-lactam combination antibiotic treatment is superior.
  • (17) Thus, the decreased hyperemic response after arrest suggests a reduced energetic debt with CSC compared with ARC and may indicate superior myocardial protection with CSC.
  • (18) Donor organs were anastomosed parallel to the recipient's heart and right lung, and the superior vena cava inflow was directed into the transplanted heart-left lung block after ligation of the recipient's superior vena cava proximal to the caval anastomosis.
  • (19) Superior memory for the word list was found when the odor present during the relearning session was the same one that had been present at the time of initial learning, thereby demonstrating context-dependent memory.
  • (20) The normal anatomical position of the point of junction of the superficial cerebral veins with the superior sagittal and transverse sinuses of the rat was studied with an analytical mathematical method.