Definitions for Mince
mɪnsmince

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. minceverb

   food chopped into small bits

   "a mince of mushrooms"

2. mince, soften, moderateverb

   make less severe or harsh

   "He moderated his tone when the students burst out in tears"

3. minceverb

   walk daintily

   "She minced down the street"

4. minceverb

   cut into small pieces

   "mince the garlic"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. mincenoun

   Finely chopped meat.

   Mince tastes really good fried in a pan with some chopped onion and tomato.

2. mincenoun

   Finely chopped mixed fruit used in Christmas pies; mincemeat.

   During Christmas time my dad loves to eat mince pies.

3. mincenoun

   An affected (often dainty or short and precise) gait.

4. mincenoun

   An affected manner, especially of speaking; an affectation.

5. minceverb

   To make less; make small.

6. minceverb

   To lessen; diminish; to diminish in speaking; speak of lightly or slightingly; minimise.

7. minceverb

   To effect mincingly.

8. minceverb

   To cut into very small pieces; to chop fine.

   Butchers often use machines to mince meat.

9. minceverb

   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.

10. minceverb

    To affect; to pronounce affectedly or with an accent.

11. minceverb

    To walk with short steps; to walk in a prim, affected manner.

12. minceverb

    To act or talk with affected nicety; to affect delicacy in manner.

    I love going to gay bars and seeing drag queens mince around on stage.

13. minceverb

    To diminish the force of.

14. Etymology: From mincen, minsen; partly from minsian, from minnisōnan; partly from mincer, mincier, from mince, of origin, from *, superlative of *, from minniz; both from (e)mey-. Cognate with minson,
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Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. To Minceverb

   Etymology: contracted, as it seems, from minish, or from mincer; mince, French, small.

   1. To cut into very small parts.

   She saw Pyrrhus make malicious sport,
   In mincing with his sword her husband’s limbs. William Shakespeare.

   With a good chopping-knife mince the two capons as small as ordinary minced meat. Francis Bacon, Nat. Hist.

   What means the service of the church so imperfectly, and by halves, read over? What makes them mince and mangle that in their practice, which they could swallow whole in their subscriptions? Robert South, Sermons.

   Revive the wits;
   But murder first, and mince them all to bits. Dunciad.

   2. To mention any thing scrupulously, by a little at a time; to palliate; to extenuate.

   I know no ways to mince it in love, but directly to say I love you. William Shakespeare, Henry V.

   Think it a bastard, whom the oracle
   Hath doubtfully pronounc’d thy throat shall cut,
   And mince it. William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens.

   Behold yon simpering dame, whose face between her forks presages snow; that minces virtue, and does shake the head to hear of pleasure’s name. William Shakespeare, King Lear.

   Iago,
   Thy honesty and love doth mince this matter,
   Making it light to Cassio. William Shakespeare, Othello.

   These gifts,
   Saving your mincing, the capacity
   Of your soft cheveril conscience would receive,
   If you might please to stretch it. William Shakespeare, Henry VIII.

   I’ll try to force you to your duty:
   For so it is, howe’er you mince it,
   Ere we part, I shall evince it. Hudibras, p. ii.

   Siren; now mince the sin,
   And mollify damnation with a phrase.
   Say you consented not to Sancho’s death,
   But barely not forbade it. John Dryden, Spanish Fryar.

   If, to mince his meaning, I had either omitted some part of what he said, or taken from the strength of his expression, I certainly had wronged him. Dryden.

   These, seeing no where water enough to effect a general deluge, were forced to mince the matter, and make only a partial one of it, restraining it to Asia. John Woodward.

2. To Minceverb

   1. To walk nicely by short steps; to act with appearance of scrupulousness and delicacy; to affect nicety.

   By her side did sit the bold Sansloy,
   Fit mate for such a mincing minion,
   Who in her looseness took exceeding joy. Fairy Queen.

   I’ll turn two mincing steps
   Into a manly stride. William Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice.

   A harlot form soft sliding by,
   With mincing step, small voice, and languid eye. Dunciad.

   2. To speak small and imperfectly.

   The reeve, miller, and cook, are as much distinguished from each other, as the mincing lady prioress and the broad-speaking wife of Bath. John Dryden, Fables.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. MINCE

   MINCE is a text editor, originally created for 8080-based microcomputers running the CP/M operating system. Later versions of MINCE were available for GEMDOS on the Atari ST, VAX/VMS, RSX-11, and various flavors of Unix. Developed in BDS C by Mark of the Unicorn, it was bundled with computers from Kaypro and Morrow Designs, and the Epson QX-10. It was a subset of Emacs (MINCE stands for "MINCE Is Not Complete Emacs") designed to run within the 64kB memory limit of 8-bit computers. MINCE used a gap buffer to fit within 48kB, and implemented a very efficient virtual memory system to support multiple buffers and a maximum file size limited only by available disk space. MINCE was a companion product to SCRIBBLE, a text formatter based on Scribe. This separation of duties into editor plus formatter was common among advanced word processors at that time. Although it was not open source, MOTU distributed partial code they deemed most useful for extending the product. In 1981, MINCE and SCRIBBLE were sold together, along with their source code and the BDS C compiler, as a software bundle for US$350 (almost US$1000 in 2014 dollars) under the name "Amethyst". Amethyst was available without the compiler for $250, and MINCE and SCRIBBLE were available alone for $175. In 1984 the list price of MINCE was US$175. (equivalent to US$433.22 in 2019). MINCE and SCRIBBLE were later developed into the Perfect Writer and FinalWord word processors. FinalWord later became Sprint. An open source project, Portable MINCE, allows the CP/M-80 version of MINCE to run on current operating systems and provides customizations, extensions, and documentation for the editor.

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1. mince

   Mince refers to cutting or grinding food, typically meat, into very small pieces, often in a machine. It can also be a term used in cooking to describe food that is finely divided, including through a mincing process. Additionally, it can refer to moderating or softening the expression of something, to prevent causing offense.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Minceverb

   to cut into very small pieces; to chop fine; to hash; as, to mince meat

2. Minceverb

   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

3. Minceverb

   to affect; to make a parade of

4. Minceverb

   to walk with short steps; to walk in a prim, affected manner

5. Minceverb

   to act or talk with affected nicety; to affect delicacy in manner

6. Mincenoun

   a short, precise step; an affected manner

7. Etymology: [AS. minsian to grow less, dwindle, fr. min small; akin to G. minder less, Goth. minniza less, mins less, adv., L. minor, adj. (cf. Minor); or more likely fr. F. mincer to mince, prob. from (assumed) LL. minutiare. 101. See Minish.]

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Mince

   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.]

Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. MINCE

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Mince is ranked #45253 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Mince surname appeared 473 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Mince.
   
   91.5% or 433 total occurrences were White.
   3.8% or 18 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   3.1% or 15 total occurrences were Black.

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Anagrams for Mince »

1. menic

How to pronounce Mince?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Mince in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Mince in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of Mince in a Sentence

1. Jeff Goodwin:

   A large part of Trumpism's appeal is Trump's personal appeal to a lot of people -- as a celebrity, as a crass speaker of truth, as these people see him, someone who doesn't mince words, someone who really tells it like it is. He's figured things out, he's a billionaire and he knows how the system works, all these elements of Trump's personality and character seem to have a lot of appeal to a big segment of the population. But I don't know if there is Trumpism without Trump.

2. Michael Griffin:

   I'm not one to mince words — it is an arms race, and critically, we didn't start it.

3. Harry Reid:

   The deal is this. John Boehner and I got a lot done, but we didn't mince words.

4. Rashid Elhouli:

   Our team set up another cookout and called all to eat, they had a variety of meals, including lamb kebab, chicken kebab, beef sausages and mince meat.

5. Miguel de Cervantes:

   I was so free with him as not to mince the matter.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=Mince
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Mince
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=Mince
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mince
5. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Mince
7. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=Mince
8. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html