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Mint vs Dint - What's the difference?

mint | dint |

As verbs the difference between mint and dint

is that mint is (intransitive|provincial|northern england|scotland) to try, attempt; take aim or mint can be to reproduce (coins), usually en masse, under licence while dint is to dent.

As nouns the difference between mint and dint

is that mint is (provincial|northern england|scotland) intent, purpose; an attempt, try; effort, endeavor or mint can be a building or institution where money (originally, only coins) is produced under government licence or mint can be any of several plants of the family lamiaceae, typically aromatic with square stems while dint is (label) a blow, stroke, especially dealt in a fight.

As an adjective mint

is of condition, as new or mint can be of a green colour, like that of the mint plant.

As a contraction dint is

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mint

English

(wikibooks mint)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) . More at (l).

Verb

(en verb)
  • (intransitive, provincial, Northern England, Scotland) To try, attempt; take aim.
  • (transitive, provincial, Northern England, Scotland) To try, attempt, endeavor; to take aim at; to try to hit; to purpose.
  • (intransitive, chiefly, Scotland) To hint; suggest; insinuate.
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (provincial, Northern England, Scotland) Intent, purpose; an attempt, try; effort, endeavor.
  • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) (m), .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A building or institution where money (originally, only coins) is produced under government licence.
  • (informal) A large amount of money. A vast sum or amount, etc.
  • That house is worth a mint
    It must have cost a mint to produce!
  • (figurative) Any place regarded as a source of unlimited supply; the supply itself.
  • * Shakespeare
  • A mint of phrases in his brain.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To reproduce (coins), usually en masse, under licence.
  • To invent; to forge; to fabricate; to fashion.
  • * Francis Bacon
  • titles of such natures as may be easily minted

    Derived terms

    * mintage * minted * mintmark

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Of condition, as new.
  • in mint condition .
  • (numismatics) In near-perfect condition; uncirculated.
  • (philately) Unused with original gum; as issued originally.
  • (UK, slang) Very good.
  • * 2014 , Holly Hagan, Not Quite a Geordie
  • And my God, what a house it was – it was mint ! In all my life I had never set foot in such a beautiful place.

    See also

    * bullion

    Etymology 3

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any of several plants of the family Lamiaceae, typically aromatic with square stems.
  • The flavouring of the plant, either a sweet, a jelly or sauce.
  • A green colour, like that of mint.
  • A mint-flavored candy, often eaten to sweeten the smell of the breath.
  • Derived terms
    * apple mint * bergamot mint * brandy mint * breath mint * brook mint * brown mint * catmint * chocolate mint * corn mint * crisped mint, crisp mint * curled mint * fish mint * grapefruit mint * horse mint * mackerel mint * mint cake * mint-drop * mint imperial * mint jelly * mint julep * Minto * mint sauce * mint-sling * mint-stick * mint tea * mint vinegar * mint-water * minty * peppermint * pineapple mint * scotch mint * spearmint * stone mint * water mint * wild mint

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Of a green colour, like that of the mint plant.
  • See also

    * balm * bee balm * bergamot * betony * catnip * clary * dragonhead * henbit * horehound * labiate * * lemon balm * monarda * oregano * patchouli * pennyroyal * perilla * rosemary * salvia * selfheal * skullcap * spike lavender * thyme * wild bergamot * woundwort * ----

    dint

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) dint, dent, . More at (l).

    Alternative forms

    * (l)

    Noun

  • (label) A blow, stroke, especially dealt in a fight.
  • *, I.i:
  • *:Much daunted with that dint , her sence was dazd.
  • * 1600 , (Edward Fairfax), The (Jerusalem Delivered) of (w), XI, xxxi:
  • *:Between them cross-bows stood, and engines wrought / To cast a stone, a quarry, or a dart, // From whence, like thunder's dint , or lightnings new, / Against the bulwarks stones and lances flew.
  • Force, power; especially in (by dint of).
  • *(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
  • *:Now you weep; and, I perceive, you feel / The dint of pity.
  • *Sir (Walter Scott) (1771-1832)
  • *:It was by dint of passing strength / That he moved the massy stone at length.
  • The mark left by a blow; an indentation or impression made by violence; a dent.
  • * (1809-1892)
  • *:every dint a sword had beaten in it [the shield]
  • :(Dryden)
  • Derived terms
    * by dint of

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To dent
  • * {{quote-book, year=1915, author=Jeffery Farnol, title=Beltane The Smith, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=And, in that moment came one, fierce and wild of aspect, in dinted casque and rusty mail who stood and watched--ah God! }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1854, author=W. Harrison Ainsworth, title=The Star-Chamber, Volume 2, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=Your helmet was dinted in as if by a great shot. }}

    Etymology 2

    Contraction

    (head)
  • Anagrams

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