Dictionary Entry
mitre
mitre is a 5-letter English word with 10 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and noun & verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A covering for the head, worn on solemn occasions by church dignitaries. It has been made in many forms, the present form being a lofty cap with two points or peaks. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 8 · 10 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A covering for the head, worn on solemn occasions by church dignitaries. It has been made in many forms, the present form being a lofty cap with two points or peaks.
- 2noun
The surface forming the beveled end or edge of a piece where a miter joint is made; also, a joint formed or a junction effected by two beveled ends or edges; a miter joint.
- 3noun
A sort of base money or coin.
- 4transitive verb
To place a miter upon; to adorn with a miter.
- 5transitive verb
To match together, as two pieces of molding or brass rule on a line bisecting the angle of junction; to bevel the ends or edges of, for the purpose of matching together at an angle.
- 6intransitive verb
To meet and match together, as two pieces of molding, on a line bisecting the angle of junction.
- 7noun & verb
See Miter.
- 8noun
a liturgical headdress worn by bishops on formal occasions
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- 9noun
the surface of a beveled end of a piece where a miter joint is made
"he covered the miter with glue before making the joint"
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- 10noun
joint that forms a corner; usually both sides are bevelled at a 45-degree angle to form a 90-degree corner
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