mint

  • 41mint — [OE] English has two completely unconnected words mint. The ‘money factory’ comes ultimately from Latin monēta ‘mint, money’ (source also of English money). It was borrowed into prehistoric West Germanic as *munita, which in due course produced… …

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  • 42mint — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun Mint is used before these nouns: ↑condition, ↑flavour, ↑green, ↑tea {{Roman}}II.{{/Roman}} verb Mint is used with these nouns as the object: ↑coin …

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  • 43mint — Synonyms and related words: armory, arsenal, assembly line, assembly plant, atomic energy plant, batch, beget, bindery, block out, boatyard, boilery, bomb, boodle, bookbindery, brand new, breed, brewery, brickyard, bright, bring forth, bring into …

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  • 44mint — mint1 noun 1》 an aromatic plant with two lipped, typically lilac flowers, several kinds of which are used as culinary herbs. [Genus Mentha: several species.]     ↘the flavour of mint, especially peppermint. 2》 a peppermint sweet. Derivatives… …

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  • 45mint — 1. noun, informal the bank made a mint out of the deal Syn: a vast sum of money, a king s ransom, millions, billions; informal a (small) fortune, a tidy sum, a bundle, a pile, big money, big bucks, megabucks 2. adjective in mint condition Syn …

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  • 46MINT — abbr. Mint is Not TOS (Atari) Syn: MiNT abbr. Multimedia kommunikation aif Integrierten Netzen und Terminals …

    United dictionary of abbreviations and acronyms

  • 47MiNT — abbr. Mint is Not TOS (Atari) Syn: MINT …

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  • 48mint — Verb: To coin money. Noun: A place for the coining of money; the United States Mint. Bronson v Rodes (US) 7 Wall 229, 247, 19 L Ed 141, 145. Any one of several aromatic plants used in medicines and flavoring extracts, such as peppermint.… …

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  • 49mint —  to mint at a thing, to aim at it, or to have a desire for it. N. In the West it is also used to signify resembling ; as, a do mint the veather o un mortally, he resembles his father greatly …

    A glossary of provincial and local words used in England

  • 50mint — ? f ( e/ a) mint [L] …

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