Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English - mince
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Mince
mince
~1 v 1 to cut food, especially meat, into very small pieces, usually in a machine (minced lamb) 2 to walk in an unnatural way, taking short steps and moving your hips + across/down/along etc (She minced across the hall to her desk.) 3 not mince matters/your words to say exactly what you think even if this may offend people (He's a brash New Yorker who doesn't mince his words.) ~2 n BrE meat, especially beef, that has been cut into very small pieces using a special machine; ground beef AmE
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(minces, mincing, minced) 1. Mince is meat which has been cut into very small pieces using a machine. (mainly BRIT; in AM, use ground beef, hamburger meat) Brown the mince in a frying pan. N-UNCOUNT 2. If you mince food such as meat, you put it into a machine which cuts it into very small pieces. (mainly BRIT; in AM, usually use grind) Perhaps I’ll buy lean meat and mince it myself. ...minced beef. VERB: V n, V-ed 3. If you say that someone, especially a homosexual man, minces somewhere, you mean that they walk there with quick small steps. They minced in, in beach costumes and make-up. VERB: V prep/adv c darkgreen]disapproval 4. If you say that someone does not mince their words, you mean that they speak in a forceful and direct way, especially when saying something unpleasant to someone. The doctors didn’t mince their words, and predicted the worst... PHRASE: V inflects, with brd-neg ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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I. verb (~d; mincing) Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French ~r, from Vulgar Latin *minutiare, from Latin minutia smallness — more at minutia Date: 14th century transitive verb 1. a. to cut or chop into very small pieces b. to subdivide minutely; especially to damage by cutting up 2. to utter or pronounce with affectation 3. a. archaic minimize b. to restrain (words) within the bounds of decorum intransitive verb to walk with short steps in a prim affected manner • ~r noun II. noun Date: 1600 1. small chopped bits (as of food); specifically ~meat 2. British hamburger 1a ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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v. & n. --v. 1 tr. cut up or grind (esp. meat) into very small pieces. 2 tr. (usu. with neg.) restrain (one's words etc.) within the bounds of politeness. 3 intr. (usu. as mincing adj.) speak or walk with an affected delicacy. --n. esp. Brit. minced meat. Phrases and idioms mince matters (usu. with neg.) use polite expressions etc. mince pie a usu. small round pie containing mincemeat. Derivatives mincer n. mincingly adv. (in sense 3 of v.). Etymology: ME f. OF mincier ult. f. L (as MINUTIA) ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. фарш; мелко порубленное мясо, грибы и т. п. 2. крошить, рубить, резать на мелкие куски 3. пропускать через мясорубку 4. смягчать, преуменьшать 5. говорить, держаться жеманно семенить, ходить маленькими шажками he minced up to me —- он подошел ко мне семенящей походкой Id: not to mince matters (one's words) —- говорить прямо, без обиняков Id: he didn't mince matters with me —- он со мной не церемонился, выложил все начистоту ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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pie сладкий пирожок [см. mincemeat ] MINCE 1. v. 1) крошить, рубить (мясо); пропускать через мясорубку 2) смягчать; успокаивать 3) говорить, держаться жеманно 4) семенить ногами not to mince matters (или ones words) - говорить прямо, без обиняков 2. noun фарш ...Англо-русский словарь
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- 1381, from O.Fr. mincier "make into small pieces," from V.L. *minutiare "make small," from L.L. minutiж "small bits," from L. minutus "small" (see minute). Mincemeat is 1663 alteration of minced meat (1578). Mincing "affectedly dainty" is first attested 1530. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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