What's the difference between catnip and mint?

Catnip


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Catmint

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The onesie-wearing 21-year-old is the darling of the glossies and tabloid catnip, a social media princess and a talented musician, best mates with Rihanna, parties with Prince Harry and about to break into Hollywood.
  • (2) I suspect that messrs Fry and Connolly – who grew up watching this man segue from gar- landed stage-thesp to tireless campaigner (Stonewall, women's and children's rights) to Hollywood catnip to that dreadful position for anyone with a fine remaining sense of mischief: being on the cusp of national-treasure status – were equally conscious of the company they were in.
  • (3) Relationships between the younger, single members of staff were purest catnip to us; we were always turning love triangles into love trapeziums.
  • (4) Fractionation of the commercial sample of catnip oil by either distillation or gc yielded 40% nepetalactone and 43% nepetalic acid.
  • (5) All of this makes it catnip to users – and to the media, which dutifully reports every twist and turn on the site.
  • (6) However, removal of the vomeronasal organ did not attenuate any of the behavioral reactions to catnip.
  • (7) But Europe is the catnip that makes Tory eyes cross, and the next two years are going to be wall-to-wall Europe.
  • (8) The rolling and rubbing during a catnip reaction might be a sexual response activated by the accessory olfactory system since the system projects to parts of the brain involved in mediation of sexual behavior.
  • (9) Olfactory bulbectomy immediately eliminated catnip responding, revealing that the chemosensory stimulus evoking the catnip reaction is undoubtedly mediated through the main olfactory system.
  • (10) Catnip oil, nepetalic acid, and a nepetalactone-enriched fraction were evaluated for toxicological and behavioral effects in mice and rats.
  • (11) Lincoln is measured, respectful and quietly reassuring; unadulterated awards catnip.
  • (12) Nor will you find him out and about at gigs or parties or openings or any of the usual stuff that's rockbiz catnip.
  • (13) The area was obviously catnip to people who wanted something more from life than can be bought in Walmart.
  • (14) But the other thought is that the campaign is proving to be catnip to Gove’s personal ambitions.
  • (15) In the chewing and mouthing of the catnip source, substances might be dissolved in saliva and transported to the vomeronasal organ.
  • (16) The alcohol extract of catnip has a biphasic effect on the behavior of young chicks.
  • (17) And if they do, they’d like her as mangled up as possible.” Clinton said other candidates were able to avoid scrutiny by continuously talking about things that are “catnip to the people who get bored talking about” candidates’ positions on serious issues.
  • (18) 1.8m page views, 1,139 comments 5) Russell Brand on Margaret Thatcher: 'I always felt sorry for her children' Tuesday 9 April 2013 The comedian's periodic columns for the Guardian this year rarely failed to cause a stir, but this one , about Thatcher's death, proved particular catnip.
  • (19) cis,trans-Nepetalactone, the biologically active component of catnip, was force-fed to the domestic cat.
  • (20) Rats were injected with saline and then exposed for 20 min to the presence of a domestic cat pretreated with catnip.

Mint


Definition:

  • (n.) The name of several aromatic labiate plants, mostly of the genus Mentha, yielding odoriferous essential oils by distillation. See Mentha.
  • (n.) A place where money is coined by public authority.
  • (n.) Any place regarded as a source of unlimited supply; the supply itself.
  • (v. t.) To make by stamping, as money; to coin; to make and stamp into money.
  • (v. t.) To invent; to forge; to fabricate; to fashion.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A matter of minutes after his appointment was announced on Thursday, the newly minted minister for Portsmouth was on his feet answering questions in the Commons.
  • (2) May hopes her fresh-minted “global Britain” will create a new paradigm in international trade.
  • (3) That’s before you even begin to consider the sort of outfits, polite eating and staged photos that guarantee I end up with a bleeding foot, skirt tucked into my knickers, mint in my teeth and a fixed smile last seen on a taxidermied pike.
  • (4) But that’s just false , no matter how many uninformed newly-minted rape pundits claim otherwise.
  • (5) That's just dandy when you're gazing at a lamb chop with mint sauce, but the downside to this technology is that each time you glance at the image of Jamie on the front cover you'll absorb some of him, too.
  • (6) The Royal Mint said earlier this week that sales of its gold coins and bars had surged before the referendum.
  • (7) Some gifted and canny writers have made a mint by appealing to teenagers’ sense of anguish and victimhood, the notion that they are forever embattled and persecuted by a rotten world run by authoritarian bozos.
  • (8) As well as a “bimetallic” construction similar to the existing £2 coin, the new £1 will feature new banknote-strength security pioneered at the Royal Mint’s headquarters in Llantrisant, South Wales.
  • (9) Using skills acquired in his first job with the accountancy giant PricewaterhouseCoopers and his second, buying and selling companies for JP Morgan, he minted a commercial model from the calm opulence of United's discreet Mayfair office that soon became the envy of the football world.
  • (10) This is an everyday tale of two freshly minted governments getting two very different treatments from the heart of Europe.
  • (11) The Royal Mint is constantly looking to the future, however, so, whilst the round £1 has served us well, it is time to turn our attention to the new £1 that in time will be used by millions of people in Britain and become equally well-recognised across the world.
  • (12) A newly minted drachma would be low enough to attract holidaymakers, but without the investment in new hotels, the industry could barely cope.
  • (13) The BRC will engage with both the government and the Royal Mint to support a smooth transition period."
  • (14) Demand for gold bullion has surged as people have snapped up coins and bars while the EU referendum result is too close to call, according to the Royal Mint.
  • (15) Britain’s Royal Mint produces coins on behalf of dozens of other countries’ governments.
  • (16) As a Muslim, she was concerned about the newly minted president-elect and his campaign promises that targeted Muslims, immigrants and women.
  • (17) Playing the California Clasico on Sunday, the Galaxy looked to be back on form after a hiccup in Montreal in midweek, where they had hauled themselves back from 2-0 down to salvage a draw, looking way out of sync playing a recently minted 3-5-2.
  • (18) Here at the Royal Mint, near Llantrisant to the west of Cardiff, production has been ramped up to full capacity.
  • (19) The 18th century minted the magazine, an elegant potpourri of stories and news, instruction and amusement.
  • (20) In a week that has seen the 17-year-old newly minted tech millionaire hit the headlines, give back-to-back interviews across the world, fly to America to appear on primetime TV shows and find time for a quick phone call to me from the back of a New York taxi, he still sounds sparky.