Mince vs Split - What's the difference?
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(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.
See (verb).
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(algebra, of a short exact sequence) Having the middle group equal to the direct product of the others.
Comprising half decaffeinated and half caffeinated espresso.
A crack or longitudinal fissure.
A breach or separation, as in a political party; a division.
A piece that is split off, or made thin, by splitting; a splinter; a fragment.
(leather manufacture) One of the sections of a skin made by dividing it into two or more thicknesses.
The acrobatic feat of spreading the legs flat on the floor 180 degrees apart, either sideways to the body or with one leg in front and one behind, thus lowering the body completely to the floor.
(baseball, slang) A split-finger fastball.
(bowling) A result of a first throw that leaves two or more pins standing with one or more pins between them knocked down.
A dessert or confection resembling a banana split.
A unit of measure used for champagne or other spirits: 18.75 centiliter or 1/4 quarter of a standard .75 liter bottle. Commercially comparable to 1/20th (US) gallon, which is 1/2 of a fifth.
A bottle of wine containing 0.375 liters, 1/2 the volume of a standard .75 liter bottle; a demi.
(athletics) The elapsed time at specific intermediate point(s) in a race.
(construction) A tear resulting from tensile stresses.
(gambling) A division of a stake happening when two cards of the kind on which the stake is laid are dealt in the same turn.
(music) A recording containing songs by multiple artists.
(ergative) Of something solid, to divide fully or partly along a more or less straight line.
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To share; to divide.
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to separate or break up.
To be broken; to be dashed to pieces.
* Shakespeare
To burst out laughing.
* Alexander Pope
(slang, dated) To divulge a secret; to betray confidence; to peach.
(sports) In athletics (esp. baseball), when both teams involved in a doubleheader each win one game and lose another game.
(split)
Mince is a related term of split.
As a noun mince
is (uncountable) finely chopped meat.As a verb mince
is to make less; make small.As a proper noun split is
a port city in croatia.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.
Usage notes
Current usage in the sense of "weaken the force of" is limited to the phrase "mince words"; e.g., "I won't mince words with you".Derived terms
* mincemeat * mince pie * mince words * minsitiveReferences
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Adjective
(split exact sequence) (-)- Republicans appear split on the centerpiece of Mr. Obama's economic recovery plan.
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Derived terms
* split-shotNoun
(en noun)- He’s got a nasty split .
- In the 3000m race, his 800m split was 1:45.32
Verb
- a huge vessel of exceeding hard marble split asunder by congealed water
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- The ship splits on the rock.
- Each had a gravity would make you split .
- (Thackeray)