different between mince vs section
mince
English
Alternative forms
- minse (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English mincen, minsen; partly from Old English minsian, ?eminsian (“to make less, make smaller, diminish”), from Proto-Germanic *minnis?n? (“to make less”); partly from Old French mincer, mincier (“to cut into small pieces”), from mince (“slender, slight, puny”), from Frankish *minsto, *minnisto, superlative of *min, *minn (“small, less”), from Proto-Germanic *minniz (“less”); both from Proto-Indo-European *mey- (“small, little”). Cognate with Old Saxon mins?n (“to make less, make smaller”), Gothic ???????????????????????????? (minznan, “to become less, diminish”), Swedish minska (“to reduce, lessen”), Gothic ???????????????? (mins, “slender, slight”). More at min.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /m?ns/
- Rhymes: -?ns
- Homophone: mints
Noun
mince (countable and uncountable, plural minces)
- (uncountable) Finely chopped meat.
- Mince tastes really good fried in a pan with some chopped onion and tomato.
- (uncountable) Finely chopped mixed fruit used in Christmas pies; mincemeat.
- During Christmas time my dad loves to eat mince pies.
- (countable) An affected (often dainty or short and precise) gait.
- 2010, Tom Zoellner, Uranium: War, Energy, and the Rock That Shaped the World:
- 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.
- 2010, Tom Zoellner, Uranium: War, Energy, and the Rock That Shaped the World:
- (countable) An affected manner, especially of speaking; an affectation.
- 1928, R. M. Pope, in The Education Outlook, volume 80, page 285:
- 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?
- 2008, Opie Read, The Colossus, page 95:
- [...] a smiling man, portly and impressive, coming toward them with a dignified mince in his walk.
- 1928, R. M. Pope, in The Education Outlook, volume 80, page 285:
- (countable, Cockney rhyming slang, chiefly in the plural) An eye (from mince pie).
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.
Translations
Verb
mince (third-person singular simple present minces, present participle mincing, simple past and past participle minced)
- (transitive) To make less; make small.
- (transitive) To lessen; diminish; to diminish in speaking; speak of lightly or slightingly; minimise.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:diminish
- (transitive, rare) To effect mincingly.
- (transitive, cooking) To cut into very small pieces; to chop fine.
- (archaic, transitive, figuratively) To suppress or weaken the force of
- Synonyms: extenuate, palliate, weaken
- 1681, John Dryden, The Spanish Friar, or the Double Discovery
- Siren, now mince the sin, / And mollify damnation with a phrase.
- To say or utter vaguely, not directly or frankly
- (transitive) 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:
- 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.
- 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:
- One may hear some speakers in Oxford mince brother into brover (brëvë); Bath into Baf; both into bof.
- 1869, Alexander J. Ellis, On Early English Pronunciation, with special reference to Shakespeare and Chaucer, part 1, page 194:
- (intransitive) To walk with short steps; to walk in a prim, affected 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.
- 1769, King James Bible, Isaiah 3:16
- The daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, mincing as they go.
- (intransitive) To act or talk with affected nicety; to affect delicacy in manner.
Usage notes
Current usage in the sense of “say or utter vaguely” is mostly limited to the phrase “mince words”; e.g., “I won't mince words with you”.
Derived terms
Translations
References
- mince in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Czech
Etymology
Borrowed from German Münze.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?m?nt?s?/
- Rhymes: -?nts?
Noun
mince f
- coin
- Synonyms: peníz, moneta
- Hyponyms: m??ák, st?íbr?ák, zla?ák
Declension
Related terms
Further reading
- mince in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
- mince in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989
French
Etymology
Derived from the verb mincer, from Old French mincier, from Vulgar Latin *min?ti?re (cf. also menuiser), from Latin min?tia.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /m??s/
Adjective
mince (plural minces)
- thin, slim, slender
Derived terms
- amincir
- minceur
- mincir
Interjection
mince
- drat!, darn!
- wow!, blimey!
Further reading
- “mince” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Irish
Noun
mince f
- genitive singular of minc (“mink”)
Mutation
Slovak
Noun
mince
- inflection of minca:
- genitive singular
- nominative/accusative plural
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section
- See Wiktionary:Entry layout for the Wiktionary style guide for sections
English
Etymology
From Middle English seccioun, from Old French section, from Latin sectio (“cutting, cutting off, excision, amputation of diseased parts of the body, etc.”), from sectus, past participle of secare (“to cut”). More at saw.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: s?k?sh?n, IPA(key): /?s?k??n/
- Rhymes: -?k??n
- Hyphenation: sec?tion
Noun
section (plural sections)
- A cutting; a part cut out from the rest of something.
- A part, piece, subdivision of anything.
- (music) A group of instruments in an orchestra.
- (music) A group of instruments in an orchestra.
- A part of a document.
- An act or instance of cutting.
- A cross-section (image that shows an object as if cut along a plane).
- (aviation) A cross-section perpendicular the longitudinal axis of an aircraft in flight.
- (surgery) An incision or the act of making an incision.
- (surgery, colloquial) Short for Caesarean section.
- (sciences) A thin slice of material prepared as a specimen for research.
- (botany) A taxonomic rank below the genus (and subgenus if present), but above the species.
- (zoology) An informal taxonomic rank below the order ranks and above the family ranks.
- (military) A group of 10-15 soldiers led by a non-commissioned officer and forming part of a platoon.
- (category theory) A right inverse.
- (New Zealand) A piece of residential land; a plot.
- (Canada) A one-mile square area of land, defined by a government survey.
- (US, historical) Any of the squares, each containing 640 acres, into which the public lands of the United States were divided.
- The symbol §, denoting a section of a document.
- (geology) A sequence of rock layers.
Synonyms
- (botany, zoology): sectio
- cutting, slice, snippet
- division, part, slice, piece
- volume
Antonyms
- whole
Hyponyms
Coordinate terms
- (aviation): waterline, buttock line
Derived terms
- bisection
- dissection
- sectionman
- trisection
Related terms
Translations
Verb
section (third-person singular simple present sections, present participle sectioning, simple past and past participle sectioned) (transitive)
- To cut, divide or separate into pieces.
- To reduce to the degree of thinness required for study with the microscope.
- (Britain) To commit (a person, to a hospital, with or without their consent), as for mental health reasons. So called after various sections of legal acts regarding mental health.
- 1998, Diana Gittins, Madness in its Place: Narratives of Severalls Hospital, 1913-1997, Routledge, ?ISBN, page 45:
- Tribunals were set up as watchdogs in cases of compulsory detention (sectioning). […] Informal patients, however, could be sectioned, and this was often a fear of patients once they were in hospital.
- a. 2000, Lucy Johnstone, Users and Abusers of Psychiatry: A Critical Look at Psychiatric Practice, Second Edition, Routledge (2000), ?ISBN, page xiv:
- The doctor then sectioned her, making her an involuntary patient, and had her moved to a secure ward.
- 2006, Mairi Colme, A Divine Dance of Madness, Chipmunkapublishing, ?ISBN, page 5:
- After explaining that for 7 years, from ’88 to ’95, I was permanently sectioned under the Mental Health act, robbed of my freedom, my integrity, my rights, I wrote at the time;- […]
- Synonym: (Australia) schedule
- 1998, Diana Gittins, Madness in its Place: Narratives of Severalls Hospital, 1913-1997, Routledge, ?ISBN, page 45:
- (medical): To perform a cesarean section on (someone).
- 2012, Anne Fraser, St. Piran's: Daredevil, Doctor...Dad!, Harlequin, page 16:
- "But if she's gone into active labour she could be bleeding massively and you may have to section her there and then."
- 2008, Murray et al, Labor and Delivery Nursing: Guide to Evidence-Based Practice, Springer Publishing Company, page 57:
- You may hear a physician say, "I don't want to section her until the baby declares itself."
- 2012, Anne Fraser, St. Piran's: Daredevil, Doctor...Dad!, Harlequin, page 16:
Translations
Further reading
- section in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- section in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- section at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- ecotins, noetics, notices
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin secti?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /s?k.sj??/
Noun
section f (plural sections)
- section (all meanings)
Further reading
- “section” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- notices
Interlingua
Etymology
From secar +? -ion, alternatively borrowed from Latin secti?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sek?ti?on/
Noun
section (plural sectiones)
- (act of) cutting
- (surgery) section (all meanings)
- section
- separation by cutting
- portion, division, subdivision
- (natural history, military, etc.) section
- (geometry, drawing, etc.) section
Derived terms
- dissection
- intersection
- resection
- trisection
- vivisection
- sectionar
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