Mandarin vs Mind - What's the difference?
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(historical) A high government bureaucrat of the Chinese Empire.
A pedantic or elitist bureaucrat.
(often, pejorative) A pedantic senior person of influence in academia or literary circles.
A mandarin duck.
(informal, British) A senior civil servant.
Pertaining to or reminiscent of mandarins; deliberately superior or complex; esoteric, highbrow, obscurantist.
*1979 , , Smiley's People , Folio Society 2010, p. 58:
*:A mandarin impassivity had descended over Smiley's face. The earlier emotion was quite gone.
* 2007 , Marina Warner, ‘Doubly Damned’, London Review of Books 29:3, p. 26:
*:Though alert to riddles' strong roots in vernacular narrative, Cook's tastes are mandarin , and she gives a loving account of Wallace Stevens's meditations on the life of poetic images and simile […].
A mandarin orange; a small, sweet citrus fruit.
A mandarin orange tree, Citrus reticulata .
An orange colour.
The ability for rational thought.
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The ability to be aware of things.
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The ability to remember things.
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The ability to focus the thoughts.
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Somebody that embodies certain mental qualities.
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Judgment, opinion, or view.
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Desire, inclination, or intention.
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A healthy mental state.
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*:“[…] it is not fair of you to bring against mankind double weapons ! Dangerous enough you are as woman alone, without bringing to your aid those gifts of mind suited to problems which men have been accustomed to arrogate to themselves.”
(lb) The non-material substance or set of processes in which consciousness, perception, affectivity, judgement, thinking, and will are based.
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*:Study gives strength to the mind ; conversation, grace: the first apt to give stiffness, the other suppleness: one gives substance and form to the statue, the other polishes it.
*1854 , Samuel Knaggs, Unsoundness of Mind Considered in Relation to the Question of Responsibility for Criminal Acts , p.19:
*:The mind is that part of our being which thinks and wills, remembers and reasons; we know nothing of it except from these functions.
*1883 , (Howard Pyle), (The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood)
*:Thus they dwelled for nearly a year, and in that time Robin Hood often turned over in his mind many means of making an even score with the Sheriff.
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, title= (now, regional) To remember.
* 1896 , , (A Shropshire Lad), XXXVII, lines 25-26:
* Addison
(originally and chiefly in negative or interrogative constructions) To dislike, to object to; to be bothered by.
(now, chiefly, North America, Ireland) To pay attention to; to listen attentively to, to obey.
* 2000 , (George RR Martin), A Storm of Swords , Bantam 2011, page 84:
To pay attention to (something); to keep one's mind on.
* Shakespeare
To look after, to take care of, especially for a short period of time.
(chiefly, in the imperative) To make sure, to take care ((that)).
To be careful about.
* 2005 , Gillie Bolton, Reflective Practice: Writing And Professional Development , ISBN 9781848602120, page xv:
(obsolete) To have in mind; to intend.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) To put in mind; to remind.
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* Shakespeare
As nouns the difference between mandarin and mind
is that mandarin is mandarin (person) while mind is the ability for rational thought.As a verb mind is
(now|regional) to remember.mandarin
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) mandarim, mandarij, from (etyl) menteri, manteri, and its source, (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* mandarinate * mandarinism * mandarinshipAdjective
(en adjective)Etymology 2
From (etyl) mandarine, feminine of mandarin, probably formed as Etymology 1, above, from the yellow colour of the mandarins' costume.Noun
(en noun)External links
* (wikipedia "mandarin")Anagrams
* ----mind
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Noun
(en noun)Heads designed for an essay on conversations
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Synonyms
* (ability for rational thought) brain, head, intellect, intelligence, nous, psyche, reason, wit * (ability to be aware of things) awareness, consciousness, sentience * (ability to remember things) memory, recollection * (ability to focus the thoughts) attention, concentration, focus * (somebody that embodies certain mental qualities) genius, intellectual, thinker * judgment, judgement, idea, opinion, view * desire, disposition, idea, inclination, intention, mood * (healthy mental state) sanity * (process of ): cognition, learningDerived terms
* aftermind * amind * bear in mind * be of one mind * blow someone's mind * breadth of mind * change one's mind * come to mind * foremind * give someone a piece of one's mind * have a mind like a sieve * have a mind of one's own * have in mind * hivemind * in one's right mind * Jedi mind tricks * know one's own mind * lose one's mind * make up one's mind * meeting of the minds * mind's ear * mind's eye * mind-blowing * mindboggling * mindful * mindless * month's mind * of one mind * of two minds * out of one's mind * overmind * philosophy of mind * presence of mind * put someone in mind of * read someone's mind * right-minded * spring to mind * to my mind * top of mind * undermind * year's mindSee also
* (wikipedia)Verb
(en verb)- The land where I shall mind you not / Is the land where all's forgot.
- You should mind your own business.
- bidding him be a good child, and mind his book
- I wouldn't mind an ice cream right now.
- ‘Should you ever have a son, Sansa, beat him frequently so he learns to mind you.’
- My lord, you nod: you do not mind the play.
- Would you mind my bag for me?
- Mind you don't knock that glass over.
- Bank Underground Station, London, is built on a curve, leaving a potentially dangerous gap between platform and carriage to trap the unwary. The loudspeaker voice instructs passengers to "Mind the gap": the boundary between train and platform.
- I mind to tell him plainly what I think.
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- He minded them of the mutability of all earthly things.
- I do thee wrong to mind thee of it.