Hack vs Mince - What's the difference?
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To chop or cut down in a rough manner.
* 1912 : (Edgar Rice Burroughs), (Tarzan of the Apes), Chapter 6
To cough noisily.
To withstand or put up with a difficult situation.
(transitive, slang, computing) To hack into; to gain unauthorized access to (a computer system, e.g., a website, or network) by manipulating code; to crack.
(transitive, slang, computing) By extension, to gain unauthorised access to a computer or online account belonging to (a person or organisation).
(computing) To accomplish a difficult programming task.
(computing) To make a quick code change to patch a computer program, often one that, while being effective, is inelegant or makes the program harder to maintain.
(transitive, colloquial, by extension) To apply a trick, shortcut, skill, or novelty method to something to increase productivity, efficiency or ease.
To work with on an intimately technical level.
(ice hockey) To strike an opponent's leg with one's hockey stick.
(ice hockey) To make a flailing attempt to hit the puck with a hockey stick.
(baseball) To swing at a pitched ball.
To strike in a frantic movement.
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A tool for chopping.
A hacking blow.
A gouge or notch made by such a blow.
A dry cough.
A hacking; a catch in speaking; a short, broken cough.
(figuratively) A try, an attempt.
(curling) The foothold traditionally cut into the ice from which the person who throws the rock pushes off for delivery.
(obsolete) A mattock or a miner's pick.
(computing, slang) An illegal attempt to gain access to a computer network.
(computing) An interesting technical achievement, particularly in computer programming.
(computing) A small code change meant to patch a problem as quickly as possible.
(computing) An expedient, temporary solution, meant to be replaced with a more elegant solution at a later date.
(colloquial) A trick, shortcut, skill, or novelty method to increase productivity, efficiency or ease.
(slang, military) Time check.
(baseball) A swing of the bat at a pitched ball by the batter.
A kick on the shins in football.
(falconry) A board which the falcon's food is placed on; used by extension for the state of partial freedom in which they are kept before being trained.
A food-rack for cattle.
A rack used to dry something, such as bricks, fish, or cheese.
A grating in a mill race.
To lay (bricks) on a rack to dry.
(falconry) To keep (young hawks) in a state of partial freedom, before they are trained.
(obsolete) An ordinary saddle horse, especially one which has been let out for hire and is old and tired.
A person, often a journalist, hired to do routine work. (newspaper hack)
* I got by on hack work for years before I finally published my novel.
(pejorative) Someone who is available for hire; hireling, mercenary.
(slang) A taxicab (hackney cab) driver.
A coach or carriage let for hire; particularly, a coach with two seats inside facing each other; a hackney coach.
* Alexander Pope
(pejorative) An untalented writer.
* Dason is nothing but a two-bit hack .
* He's nothing but the typical hack writer.
(pejorative) One who is professionally successful despite producing mediocre work. (Usually applied to persons in a creative field.)
(pejorative) A talented writer-for-hire, paid to put others' thoughts into felicitous language.
(politics) A political agitator. (slightly derogatory)
(obsolete) A bookmaker who hires himself out for any sort of literary work; an overworked man; a drudge.
* Goldsmith
(obsolete) A procuress.
(dated) To make common or cliched; to vulgarise.
To ride a horse at a regular pace; to ride on a road (as opposed to riding cross-country etc.).
(obsolete) To be exposed or offered or to common use for hire; to turn prostitute.
(obsolete) To live the life of a drudge or hack.
To use as a hack; to let out for hire.
To use frequently and indiscriminately, so as to render trite and commonplace.
* J. H. Newman
A small ball usually made of woven cotton or suede and filled with rice, sand or some other filler, for use in hackeysack.
(uncountable) Finely chopped meat.
(uncountable) Finely chopped mixed fruit used in Christmas pies; mincemeat.
(countable) An affected (often dainty or short and precise) gait.
* Truman Capote, Children on their Birthdays : (rfdate)
* John Fowles: (rfdate):
* 2010 , Tom Zoellner, Uranium: War, Energy, and the Rock That Shaped the World :
(countable) An affected manner, especially of speaking; an affectation.
* George Bernard Shaw: (rfdate)
* 1928 , R. M. Pope, in The Education Outlook , volume 80, page 285:
* 2008 , Opie Read, The Colossus , page 95:
To make less; make small.
To lessen; diminish; to diminish in speaking; speak of lightly or slightingly; minimise.
(rare) To effect mincingly.
(cooking) To cut into very small pieces; to chop fine.
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.
* Dryden
To affect; to pronounce affectedly or with an accent.
* 1869 , Alexander J. Ellis, On Early English Pronunciation, with special reference to Shakespeare and Chaucer , part 1, page 194:
* 1905 , George Henderson, The Gaelic Dialects, IV'', in the ''Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie , published by Kuno Meyer and L. Chr. Stern, volume 5, page 98:
* 1915 , Willa Cather, The Song of the Lark :
To walk with short steps; to walk in a prim, affected manner.
* The daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, mincing as they go. -- III. 16.
* I'll turn two mincing steps into a manly stride. —
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To act or talk with affected nicety; to affect delicacy in manner.
(archaic) To diminish the force of.
In transitive terms the difference between hack and mince
is that hack is to chop or cut down in a rough manner while mince is to affect; to pronounce affectedly or with an accent.In intransitive terms the difference between hack and mince
is that hack is to cough noisily while mince is to act or talk with affected nicety; to affect delicacy in manner.hack
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl)Verb
(en verb)- They hacked the brush down and made their way through the jungle.
- Among other things he found a sharp hunting knife, on the keen blade of which he immediately proceeded to cut his finger. Undaunted he continued his experiments, finding that he could hack and hew splinters of wood from the table and chairs with this new toy.
- This cold is awful. I can't stop hacking .
- Can you hack it out here with no electricity or running water?
- When I logged into the social network, I discovered I'd been hacked .
- He can hack like no one else and make the program work as expected.
- I hacked in a fix for this bug, but we'll still have to do a real fix later.
- I read up on dating tips so I can hack my sex life.
- I'm currently hacking distributed garbage collection.
- He's going to the penalty box after hacking the defender in front of the goal.
- There's a scramble in front of the net as the forwards are hacking at the bouncing puck.
- He went to the batter's box hacking .
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Derived terms
(terms derived from hack) * hack down * hack in * , hackingly, hacky * hack into * hack up * hackability * hackerSynonyms
* (gain unauthorized access) crack * frob * tweakNoun
(en noun)- (Shakespeare)
- Putting your phone in a sandwich bag when you go to the beach is such a great hack .
- He took a few hacks , but the pitcher finally struck him out.
Quotations
* (English Citations of "hack")Synonyms
* (access attempt) crack * band-aid, contrivance, improvision, improvisation, kludge, makeshift, quick fix, patchEtymology 2
Variations of (hatch), (heck).Noun
(en noun)Verb
(en verb)Etymology 3
Abbreviation of , probably from place name HackneyNoun
(en noun)- On horse, on foot, in hacks and gilded chariots.
- Here lies poor Ned Purdon, from misery freed, / Who long was a bookseller's hack .
Synonyms
*(A saddle horse which is old and tired) nagCoordinate terms
*(worthless horse) bumVerb
(en verb)- (Hanmer)
- (Goldsmith)
- The word "remarkable" has been so hacked of late.
Etymology 4
FromNoun
(en noun)mince
English
Alternative forms
* (l)Noun
- Mince tastes really good fried in a pan with some chopped onion and tomato.
- During Christmas time my dad loves to eat mince pies.
- A wiry little girl in a starched, lemon-colored party dress, she sassed along with a grownup mince , one hand on her hip, the other supporting a spinsterish umbrella.
- She was just the same; she had a light way of walking and she always wore flat heels so she didn't have that mince like most girls. She didn't think at all about the men when she moved. Like a bird.
- His skin was china pale, he walked with a slight mince , and his silver mustache was always trimmed sharp; it was his custom to send a bouquet of pink carnations to the wives of men with whom he dined.
- A very moderate degree of accomplishment in this direction would make an end of stage smart speech, which, like the got-up Oxford mince and drawl of a foolish curate, is the mark of a snob.
- And, further, who has not heard what someone has christened the "Oxford" mince , where every consonant is mispronounced and every vowel gets a wrong value?
- [...] a smiling man, portly and impressive, coming toward them with a dignified mince in his walk.
Quotations
* 1849 , Herman Melville, Mardi, and a Voyage Thither : *: Not, — let me hurry to say, — that I put hand in tar bucket with a squeamish air, or ascended the rigging with a Chesterfieldian mince .Verb
(minc)- Butchers often use machines to mince meat.
- I know no ways to mince it in love, but directly to say — "I love you." —
- To mince one's words
- a minced oath
- Siren, now mince the sin, / And mollify damnation with a phrase.
- In some districts of England ll'' is sounded like ''w'', thus ''bowd'' (booud) for BOLD, ''bw'' (buu) for BULL, ''caw (kau) for CALL. But this pronunciation is merely a provincialism, and not to be imitated unless you wish to mince like these blunderers.
- One may hear some speakers in Oxford mince brother'' into ''brover'' (brëvë); ''Bath'' into ''Baf''; ''both'' into ''bof .
- "The preacher said it was sympathetic," she minced the word, remembering Mr. Larsen's manner.
- At the last moment Mollie, the foolish, pretty white mare who drew Mr. Jones's trap, came mincing daintily in, chewing at a lump of sugar.
- I love going to gay bars and seeing drag queens mince around on stage.