MINCE
\mˈɪns], \mˈɪns], \m_ˈɪ_n_s]\
Definitions of MINCE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1908 - Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language
- 1919 - The concise Oxford dictionary of current English
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food chopped into small bits; "a mince of mushrooms"
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make less severe or harsh; "He moderated his tone when the students burst out in tears"
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cut into small pieces; "mince the garlic"
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walk daintily; "She minced down the street"
By Princeton University
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food chopped into small bits; "a mince of mushrooms"
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make less severe or harsh; "He moderated his tone when the students burst out in tears"
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cut into small pieces; "mince the garlic"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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To cut into very small pieces; to chop fine; to hash; as, to mince meat.
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To suppress or weaken the force of; to extenuate; to palliate; to tell by degrees, instead of directly and frankly; to clip, as words or expressions; to utter half and keep back half of.
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To affect; to make a parade of.
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To walk with short steps; to walk in a prim, affected manner.
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To act or talk with affected nicety; to affect delicacy in manner.
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A short, precise step; an affected manner.
By Oddity Software
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To cut into very small pieces; to chop fine; to hash; as, to mince meat.
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To suppress or weaken the force of; to extenuate; to palliate; to tell by degrees, instead of directly and frankly; to clip, as words or expressions; to utter half and keep back half of.
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To affect; to make a parade of.
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To walk with short steps; to walk in a prim, affected manner.
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To act or talk with affected nicety; to affect delicacy in manner.
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A short, precise step; an affected manner.
By Noah Webster.
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To cut or chop into very small pieces; to weaken; tell in part or by degrees; make less in importance; as, don't mince matters; to pronounce or speak with assumed elegance or daintiness.
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To talk with as sumed elegance; walk with short steps or in a prim manner.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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To cut into small pieces: to chop fine: to diminish or suppress a part in speaking: to pronounce affectedly.
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To walk with affected nicety: to speak affectedly:-pr.p. mincing; pa.p. minced (minst').
By Daniel Lyons
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To chop into small pieces; to suppress or soften in speaking.
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To walk or speak with affected daintiness.
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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To chop fine; lessen; talk or act affectively.
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Meat chopped fine and mixed with various ingredients. mincemeat.
By James Champlin Fernald
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mins, v.t. to cut into small pieces: to chop fine: to diminish or suppress a part in speaking: to pronounce affectedly.--v.i. to walk with affected nicety: to speak affectedly:--pr.p. minc'ing; pa.p. minced (minst).--ns. MINCE'-MEAT, meat chopped small--hence anything thoroughly broken or cut to pieces; MINCE'-PIE, a pie made with minced meat, &c.--adj. MINC'ING, not speaking fully out: speaking or walking with affected nicety.--adv. MINC'INGLY.--MINCE MATTERS, to speak of things with affected delicacy, or to soften an account unduly.--MINCED COLLOPS (see COLLOPS). [A.S. minsian--min, small; prob. cog. with Fr. mince, thin, also Teut.]
By Thomas Davidson
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Minced meat; mincemeat, mixture of currants, raisins, sugar, apples, candied-peel, &c., for m.-pie (small round pie containing this), make m. -m. of, destroy (person).
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Cut (meat &c.) small; (usu. W. negative) m. matters, express oneself politely in condemnation; restrain (one\'s words) within bounds of politeness; utter (words), walk, with affected delicacy, whence mincingly adv. [old French]
By Sir Augustus Henry