different between mint vs strike
mint
English
Wikibooks
Pronunciation
- enPR: m?nt, IPA(key): /m?nt/
- Rhymes: -?nt
Etymology 1
From Middle English mynt, münet (“money, coin”), from Old English mynet (“coin”), from late Proto-West Germanic *munit, from Latin mon?ta (“place for making coins, coined money”), from the temple of Juno Moneta (named for Mon?ta mother of the Muses), where coins were made. Doublet of money and manat.
The verb is from the noun; Old English mynetian (“to mint”) is a parallel formation.
Noun
mint (plural mints)
- A building or institution where money (originally, only coins) is produced under government licence.
- (informal) A vast sum of money; (by extension) a large amount of something.
- Synonyms: (informal) bundle, (slang) pile, (colloquial) small fortune
- (figuratively) Any place regarded as a source of unlimited supply; the supply itself.
Related terms
- money
- monetary
Translations
Verb
mint (third-person singular simple present mints, present participle minting, simple past and past participle minted)
- (transitive) To reproduce (coins), usually en masse, under licence.
- To invent; to forge; to fabricate; to fashion.
- 1623, Francis Bacon, A Discourse of a War with Spain
- titles […] as may appear to be easily minted
- 1623, Francis Bacon, A Discourse of a War with Spain
- (transitive, cryptocurrencies) To create a crypto token.
- Coordinate term: mine
Translations
Adjective
mint (not comparable)
- (with condition) Like new.
- (numismatics) In near-perfect condition; uncirculated.
- (philately) Unused with original gum; as issued originally.
- (Britain, slang) Very good.
- (Britain, slang) Attractive; beautiful; handsome.
Translations
Derived terms
- mintage
- minted
- mintmark
See also
- bullion
Etymology 2
From Old English minte (“mint plant”), from Proto-West Germanic *mint?, from Latin menta, probably from a lost Mediterranean language either through Ancient Greek ????? (mínth?), ????? (míntha) or directly. Akin to Old Norse minta (“mint”).
Noun
mint (plural mints)
- Any plant in the genus Mentha in the family Lamiaceae, typically aromatic with square stems.
- The flavouring of the plant, either a sweet, a jelly or sauce.
- Any plant in the mint family, Lamiaceae.
- A green colour, like that of mint.
- A mint-flavored candy, often eaten to sweeten the smell of the breath.
Derived terms
Related terms
- calamint
- menthol
Translations
Adjective
mint (not comparable)
- Of a green colour, like that of the mint plant.
Translations
See also
Etymology 3
From Middle English minten, from Old English myntan (“to mean, intend, purpose, determine, resolve”), from Proto-West Germanic *muntijan (“to think, consider”), from Proto-Indo-European *men-, *mn?- (“to think”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian mintsje, muntsje (“to aim, target”), Dutch munten (“to aim at, target”), German Low German münten (“to aim at”), German münzen (“to aim at”), Dutch monter (“cheerful, gladsome, spry”), Gothic ???????????????? (muns, “thought, opinion”), Old English munan (“to be mindful of, consider, intend”). More at mind.
Verb
mint (third-person singular simple present mints, present participle minting, simple past and past participle minted)
- (intransitive, provincial, Northern England, Scotland) To try, attempt; take aim.
- (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:)
- (transitive, provincial, Northern England, Scotland) To try, attempt, endeavor; to take aim at; to try to hit; to purpose.
- (intransitive, chiefly Scotland) To hint; suggest; insinuate.
Noun
mint (plural mints)
- (provincial, Northern England, Scotland) Intent, purpose; an attempt, try; effort, endeavor.
- (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:)
Anagrams
- NTIM
Dutch
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -?nt
Verb
mint
- second- and third-person singular present indicative of minnen
- (archaic) plural imperative of minnen
Hungarian
Etymology
Lexicalization of mi (“what?”) +? -n (case suffix) +? -t (locative suffix).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?mint]
- Hyphenation: mint
- Rhymes: -int
Conjunction
mint
- (comparison of things with a quality present at different degrees) than
- Synonyms: -nál/-nél, (dialectal) -tól/-t?l
- (comparison of things with a quality present at the same degree) as …… as
- Synonyms: amint, (literary) akár, (literary) akárcsak
- (comparison of things with some similar quality) like
- Synonyms: amint, (literary) akár, (literary) akárcsak
- (somewhat formal, pointing at a comparable feature at a different instance) as
- Synonyms: amint, ahogy, ahogyan
- (stating someone's capacity in a situation) as
- Synonyms: -ként, -képp/-képpen, -ul/-ül
Usage notes
In the context of comparison, mint starts a new clause, so a comma is needed before it.
Derived terms
- amint
- mintegy
- mintha
- minthogy
- mintsem
- valamint
(Expressions):
- Category:Hungarian similes
- a hazug embert hamarabb utolérik, mint a sánta kutyát
- jobb félni, mint megijedni
- jobb kés?n, mint soha
- jobb ma egy veréb, mint holnap egy túzok
- ki mint vet, úgy arat
See also
- ahogy
- olyan
References
Further reading
- (most senses given above): mint in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN
- (as): mint in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN
Middle English
Etymology 1
Noun
mint
- Alternative form of mynte (“mint (plant)”)
Etymology 2
Noun
mint
- Alternative form of mynt (“strike”)
Etymology 3
Verb
mint
- Alternative form of mynten
Norwegian Bokmål
Alternative forms
- minna, minnet
Verb
mint
- past participle of minne
Norwegian Nynorsk
Verb
mint
- past participle of mina
Romanian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [mint]
Verb
mint
- first-person singular present indicative of min?i
- third-person singular present indicative of min?i
- first-person singular present subjunctive of min?i
mint From the web:
- what month is it
- what month is aries
- what month is cancer
- what month is sagittarius
strike
English
Etymology
From Middle English stryken, from Old English str?can, from Proto-Germanic *str?kan?, from Proto-Indo-European *streyg- (“to stroke, rub, press”). Cognate with Dutch strijken, German streichen, Danish stryge, Icelandic strýkja, strýkva.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /st?a?k/
- Rhymes: -a?k
Verb
strike (third-person singular simple present strikes, present participle striking, simple past struck, past participle struck or (see usage notes) stricken or (archaic) strucken)
- (transitive, sometimes with out or through) To delete or cross out; to scratch or eliminate.
- (physical) To have a sharp or sudden effect.
- (transitive) To hit.
- (transitive) To give, as a blow; to impel, as with a blow; to give a force to; to dash; to cast.
- (intransitive) To deliver a quick blow or thrust; to give blows.
- (transitive) To manufacture, as by stamping.
- (intransitive, dated) To run upon a rock or bank; to be stranded; to run aground.
- (transitive) To cause to sound by one or more beats; to indicate or notify by audible strokes. Of a clock, to announce (an hour of the day), usually by one or more sounds.
- (intransitive) To sound by percussion, with blows, or as if with blows.
- (transitive) To cause or produce by a stroke, or suddenly, as by a stroke.
- (transitive) To cause to ignite by friction.
- (transitive) To hit.
- (transitive) To thrust in; to cause to enter or penetrate.
- (personal, social) To have a sharp or severe effect.
- (transitive) To punish; to afflict; to smite.
- (intransitive) To carry out a violent or illegal action.
- (intransitive) To act suddenly, especially in a violent or criminal way.
- (transitive, figuratively) To impinge upon.
- (intransitive) To stop working as a protest to achieve better working conditions.
- Synonym: strike work
- 1889, New York (State). Dept. of Labor. Bureau of Statistics, Annual Report (part 2, page 127)
- Two men were put to work who could not set their looms; a third man was taken on who helped the inefficients to set the looms. The other weavers thought this was a breach of their union rules and 18 of them struck […]
- (transitive) To impress, seem or appear (to).
- (transitive) To create an impression.
- (sports) To score a goal.
- To make a sudden impression upon, as if by a blow; to affect with some strong emotion.
- To affect by a sudden impression or impulse.
- (intransitive, Britain, obsolete, slang) To steal or rob; to take forcibly or fraudulently.
- (slang, archaic) To borrow money from; to make a demand upon.
- (transitive) To punish; to afflict; to smite.
- To touch; to act by appulse.
- (transitive) To take down, especially in the following contexts.
- (nautical) To haul down or lower (a flag, mast, etc.)
- (by extension) To capitulate; to signal a surrender by hauling down the colours.
- To dismantle and take away (a theater set; a tent; etc.).
- 1979, Texas Monthly (volume 7, number 8, page 109)
- The crew struck the set with a ferocity hitherto unseen, an army more valiant in retreat than advance.
- 1979, Texas Monthly (volume 7, number 8, page 109)
- (intransitive) To set off on a walk or trip.
- (intransitive) To pass with a quick or strong effect; to dart; to penetrate.
- (dated) To break forth; to commence suddenly; with into.
- (intransitive) To become attached to something; said of the spat of oysters.
- To make and ratify.
- To level (a measure of grain, salt, etc.) with a straight instrument, scraping off what is above the level of the top.
- (masonry) To cut off (a mortar joint, etc.) even with the face of the wall, or inward at a slight angle.
- To hit upon, or light upon, suddenly.
- (sugar-making, obsolete) To lade thickened sugar cane juice from a teache into a cooler.
- To stroke or pass lightly; to wave.
- (obsolete) To advance; to cause to go forward; used only in the past participle.
- To balance (a ledger or account).
Usage notes
- The past participle of strike is usually struck (e.g. He'd struck it rich, or When the clock had struck twelve, etc.); stricken is significantly rarer. However, it is still found in transitive constructions where the subject is the object of an implied action, especially in the phrases "stricken with/by (an affliction)" or "stricken (something) from the record" (e.g. The Court has stricken the statement from the record, or The city was stricken with disease, etc.). Except for in these contexts, stricken is almost never found in informal or colloquial speech.
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
strike (plural strikes)
- (baseball) A status resulting from a batter swinging and missing a pitch, or not swinging at a pitch when the ball goes in the strike zone, or hitting a foul ball that is not caught.
- 1996, Lyle Lovett, "Her First Mistake" on The Road to Ensenada:
- It was then I knew I had made my third mistake. Yes, three strikes right across the plate, and as I hollered "Honey, please wait" she was gone.
- 1996, Lyle Lovett, "Her First Mistake" on The Road to Ensenada:
- (bowling) The act of knocking down all ten pins in on the first roll of a frame.
- A work stoppage (or otherwise concerted stoppage of an activity) as a form of protest.
- A blow or application of physical force against something.
- 1996, Annie Proulx, Accordion Crimes
- […] and they could hear the rough sound, could hear too the first strikes of rain as though called down by the music.
- 2008, Lich King, "Attack of the Wrath of the War of the Death of the Strike of the Sword of the Blood of the Beast", Toxic Zombie Onslaught
- 1996, Annie Proulx, Accordion Crimes
- (finance) In an option contract, the price at which the holder buys or sells if they choose to exercise the option.
- An old English measure of corn equal to the bushel.
- (cricket) The status of being the batsman that the bowler is bowling at.
- The primary face of a hammer, opposite the peen.
- (geology) The compass direction of the line of intersection between a rock layer and the surface of the Earth.
- An instrument with a straight edge for levelling a measure of grain, salt, etc., scraping off what is above the level of the top; a strickle.
- (obsolete) Fullness of measure; hence, excellence of quality.
- An iron pale or standard in a gate or fence.
- (ironworking) A puddler's stirrer.
- (obsolete) The extortion of money, or the attempt to extort money, by threat of injury; blackmail.
- The discovery of a source of something.
- The strike plate of a door.
- (fishing) A nibble on the bait by a fish.
- 2014, Michael Gorman, Effective Stillwater Fly Fishing (page 87)
- I must admit that my focus was divided, which limited my fishing success. I made a few casts, then arranged my inanimate subjects and took photos. When my indicator went down on my first strike, I cleanly missed the hook up.
- 2014, Michael Gorman, Effective Stillwater Fly Fishing (page 87)
Antonyms
- (work stoppage): industrial peace; lockout
Derived terms
Translations
Descendants
- German: streiken
References
Further reading
- strike in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- Farmer, John Stephen (1904) Slang and Its Analogues?[1], volume 7, page 12
Anagrams
- Kister, kiters, trikes
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /st?ajk/
Noun
strike m (plural strikes)
- (bowling) a strike
Derived terms
- striker
Related terms
- spare
Italian
Noun
strike m (invariable)
- strike (in baseball and ten-pin bowling)
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from English strike.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /?st?ajk/, /is.?t?aj.ki/
Noun
strike m (plural strikes)
- (bowling) strike (the act of knocking down all pins)
- (baseball) strike (the act of missing a swing at the ball)
Spanish
Etymology
From English strike.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?st?aik/, [?st??ai?k]
- IPA(key): /es?t?aik/, [es?t??ai?k]
Noun
strike m (plural strikes)
- (baseball) strike
- (bowling) strike
strike From the web:
- what strike has the most vex
- what strikes have vex
- what strike price to choose
- what strike has vex
- what strike has the most vex beyond light
- what strike means
- what strike has hive
- what strikes have fallen
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