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Dicing vs Mincing - What's the difference?

dicing | mincing |

As verbs the difference between dicing and mincing

is that dicing is present participle of lang=en while mincing is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between dicing and mincing

is that dicing is a game of dice while mincing is the act by which something is minced.

As an adjective mincing is

affectedly dainty.

dicing

English

Verb

(head)
  • * 2014, (Paul Salopek), Blessed. Cursed. Claimed. , National Geographic (December 2014)[http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/12/pilgrim-roads/salopek-text]
    • Over the course of two sweltering days of rambling the West Bank, we squeeze through a thicket of visible and imaginary borders, fences, walls, frontiers, barriers, no-go zones. After a year steeped in the oceanic vistas of Arabia, of Africa, such a dicing of landscape into countless micro-turfs makes me dizzy.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A game of dice.
  • A fragment of diced food.
    • bacon dicings

    mincing

    English

    (wikipedia mincing)

    Verb

    (head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Affectedly dainty.
  • *1913 ,
  • *:"Is there nothing to eat in the house?" he asked, insolently, as if to a servant. In certain stages of his intoxication he affected the clipped, mincing speech of the towns. Mrs. Morel hated him most in this condition.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is minced.
  • * 1931 , The Journal of Biological Chemistry (volume 90, page 689)
    • After three or four mincings with a coarse blade the product was passed two or three times through a fine blade.