mitered

英：['mɑɪtəd]

美：['mɑɪtəd]

• adj.斜接的；戴礼冠的

noun (1)

a surface forming a beveled end or edge where a joint is made by cutting two pieces of material (such as wood) at an angle and fitting them together—often used before another nounmiter cutsa miter saw

cut the miters

miter joint

verb (1)

transitive verb

to match or fit together in a miter joint

mitered the corners of the frame

to bevel the ends of for making a miter joint a mitered edge

miter a board

noun (2)

a liturgical headdress worn by bishops and abbots

verb (2)

transitive verb

to raise (someone) to a rank that is allowed to wear a miter (see miter entry 3) on

Noun (1) of uncertain origin Note: The Oxford English Dictionary, third edition, hypothesizes that this miter is the same word as miter >entry 3, "perhaps with reference to the early form of the episcopal mitre, which had a vertical band bisecting the angle at the top." This is possible, though it is questionable how familiar a joiner or builder in the sixteenth or seventeenth century—assuming this period is when the word arose—would be with the construction of a bishop's hat. The word is also attested as French mitre with the identical meaning in the Encyclopédie of Denis Diderot, et al. (tome 10 [1765], p. 584), along with a description of a miter box (boîte de mitre). The information may have been drawn from the multivolume Descriptions des arts et métiers that appeared around the same time as the Encyclopédie and from which much of its technical information was derived. The Oxford English Dictionary also notes the occurrence of Latin mitra in the Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources, though the assignment of the meaning "miter square" to the citation in question appears to be conjectural. Verb (1) derivative of miter >entry 1 Noun (2) Middle English mitre, miter, mitur "head covering, headband, bishop's headdress," borrowed from Anglo-French mitre "bishop's headdress," borrowed from Medieval Latin mitra, going back to Late Latin, "headdress of a Jewish priest," going back to Latin, "Asian headdress fastened with ribbons under the chin," borrowed from Greek mítra "armor protecting the lower part of a warrior's body (Homer), waistband of a woman or goddess, headband worn by women and Asian men," of uncertain origin Note: Greek mítra has been compared with Sanskrit mitráḥ "partner in a treaty or pact, friend," Mitráḥ, the name of a deity, mitrám "contract, treaty, friendship," and Avestan miθra- "treaty, contract." Hypothetically, these could be the outcomes of an Indo-European noun *mi-tro- "connection, attachment," a derivative of a presumed verbal base *mei̯- "connect, join," as both the Greek and Indo-Iranian nouns might describe something connected, literally in the case of the Greek word, figuratively in the Indo-Iranian case. However, there appears to be no certain evidence for a verb *mei̯- with this meaning, as Sanskrit minóti "(s/he) fixes, erects, establishes," mita- "fixed, erected," Old Irish do·dímen "(s/he) binds, makes fast, fixes," point to a somewhat different sense. Alternatively, Greek mítra has been taken as a borrowing from Indo-Iranian—improbably, given attestation in Homer—or a borrowing from an Asian or substratum language. Verb (2) Middle English mitren "to invest with a miter," derivative of mitre miter >entry 3

The first known use of miter was in the 14th century

mitenoun

any of various invertebrates that are tiny arachnids closely related to the ticks, that often live on plants, animals, and stored foods, and that include important carriers of disease

a very small coin or sum of money

a very little amount : bit

a very small object or creature

miter1 of 2noun

a high pointed headdress worn by a bishop or abbot in church ceremonies

miter joint

miter2 of 2verb

to match or fit together in a miter joint

miter1 of 2noun

a high pointed headdress worn by a bishop or abbot in church ceremonies

miter joint

miter2 of 2verb

to match or fit together in a miter joint