Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - mint
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Mint
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(mints, minting, minted) 1. Mint is a herb with fresh-tasting leaves. Garnish with mint sprigs. N-UNCOUNT 2. A mint is a sweet with a peppermint flavour. Some people suck mints in order to make their breath smell fresher. N-COUNT 3. The mint is the place where the official coins of a country are made. In 1965 the mint stopped putting silver in dimes. N-COUNT: usu sing, usu the N 4. To mint coins or medals means to make them in a mint. ...the right to mint coins. VERB: V n 5. If you say that someone makes a mint, you mean that they make a very large amount of money. (INFORMAL) Everybody thinks I’m making a mint... = loads N-SING: usu a N 6. If you say that something is in mint condition, you mean that it is in perfect condition. PHRASE: usu v-link PHR
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I. noun Etymology: Middle English ~e, from Old English, from Latin mentha, menta; akin to Greek ~he ~ Date: before 12th century 1. any of a family (Labiatae, the ~ family) of aromatic plants with a square stem and a 4-lobed ovary which produces four one-seeded nutlets in fruit; especially any of a genus (Mentha) of ~s that have white, purple, or pink verticillate flowers with a nearly regular corolla and four equal stamens and that include some used in flavoring and cookery 2. a confection flavored with ~ • ~y adjective II. noun Etymology: Middle English mynt coin, money, from Old English mynet, from Latin moneta ~, coin, from Moneta, epithet of Juno; from the fact that the Romans coined money in the temple of Juno Moneta Date: 15th century 1. a place where coins, medals, or tokens are made 2. a place where something is manufactured 3. a vast sum or amount worth a ~ III. transitive verb Date: circa 1520 1. to make (as coins) out of metal ; coin 2. create, produce 3. to cause to attain an indicated status newly ~ed doctors • ~er noun IV. adjective Date: 1902 unmarred as if fresh from a ~ in ~ condition ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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1. n. 1 any aromatic plant of the genus Mentha. 2 a peppermint sweet or lozenge. Phrases and idioms mint julep US a sweet iced alcoholic drink of bourbon flavoured with mint. mint sauce chopped mint in vinegar and sugar, usu. eaten with lamb. Derivatives minty adj. (mintier, mintiest). Etymology: OE minte ult. f. L ment(h)a f. Gk minthe 2. n. & v. --n. 1 a place where money is coined, usu. under State authority. 2 a vast sum of money (making a mint). 3 a source of invention etc. (a mint of ideas). --v.tr. 1 make (coin) by stamping metal. 2 invent, coin (a word, phrase, etc.). Phrases and idioms in mint condition (or state) freshly minted; (of books etc.) as new. mint-mark a mark on a coin to indicate the mint at which it was struck. mint-master the superintendent of coinage at a mint. mint par (in full mint parity) 1 the ratio between the gold equivalents of currency in two countries. 2 their rate of exchange based on this. Derivatives mintage n. Etymology: OE mynet f. WG f. L moneta MONEY ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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сущ. монетный двор, предприятие по производству монет - Royal Mint - US Mint - private mint MINT MARK клеймо монетного двора ...Англо-русский Русско-английский экономический словарь
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мята (Mentha) – apple mint – bergamot mint – brandy mint – common mint – corn mint – creeping mint – crisped-leaved mint – downy whorled mint – field mint – garden mint – geranium mint – horse mint – lamb mint – mountain mint – rosemary mint – round-leaved mint – small-leaved mint – squaw mint – stone mint – water mint – wild mint – woolly mint ...Англо-русский Русско-английский биологический словарь
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1. монетный двор fresh from the mint —- новенькая (о монете) in mint condition (state) —- новенький, непотрепанный (о книге, почтовой марке и т. п.); блестящий, новый (о монете, медали и т. п.) 2. большая сумма; большое количество a mint of money —- большая сумма, куча денег 3. источник; рассадник a mint of intrigue —- гнездо интриг 4. чеканить (монету) he mints money —- разг. ирон. он разве что не печатает деньги 5. создавать (новое слово, выражение) a newly minted phrase —- свежий (незатасканный) оборот the poet minted several words that can't be found in any dictionary —- поэт ввел в оборот несколько слов, которых нет ни в одном словаре 6. пренебр. выдумывать, измышлять, фабриковать 7. бот. мята (Mentha gen.) 8. бот. мята перечная (mentha piperita) 9. мятное масло 10. мятная конфета, мятный леденец 11. мятная жевательная резинка ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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I noun bot. мята II 1. noun 1) монетный двор 2) большая сумма; большое количество; - mint of money - mint of trouble 3) источник, происхождение; - mint of intrigue 4) attr. новый, только что выпущенный в свет; - mint coin 2. v. 1) чеканить (монету) 2) создавать (новое слово, выражение) 3) disdain. выдумывать MINT coin блестящая новенькая монета MINT of intrigue рассадник интриг MINT of money большая сумма; куча денег; MINT of trouble куча неприятностей ...Англо-русский словарь
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~1 n 1 a sweet that tastes of peppermint (=a strong tasting substance obtained from a plant) 2 a small plant with leaves that have a fresh smell and taste and are used in cooking 3 in mint condition looking new and in perfect condition (A copy in mint condition would fetch about -2000.) 4 a mint informal a large amount of money (Lynn won a mint in that competition!) 5 a place where coins are officially made ~2 v 1 to make a coin 2 to invent new words, phrases, or ideas (a recently minted phrase) ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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mil. abbr. Mutual Interference gen. comp. abbr. Master Incom Network Translator network. abbr. Millennium Infrastructure Network Technology educ. abbr. Mentoring And Induction Of New Teachers NASDAQ abbr. Micro Integration Corporation ...English abbreviation dictionary
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