(v. t.) To cut into very small pieces; to chop fine; to hash; as, to mince meat.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) To affect; to make a parade of.
(v. i.) To walk with short steps; to walk in a prim, affected manner.
(v. i.) To act or talk with affected nicety; to affect delicacy in manner.
(n.) A short, precise step; an affected manner.
Example Sentences:
(1) The company, part of the John Lewis Partnership, now sources all its beef from the UK, including in its ready meals, sandwiches and fresh mince.
(2) Other Christmas favourites, including stollen, organic mince pies and Schweppes tonic will also be included among 100 seasonal products on the list of 1,000 items which shoppers can choose from over the next few months.
(3) The heterotransplantation of minced human fetal pituitaries into adult thymus-aplastic nude mice is described.
(4) Morphine addition to the PGE1-stimulated minces did not prevent or reverse stimulation of [3H]cAMP accumulation in any of the three experimental groups.
(5) Minced and triturated fragments from the spinal cord of normal rat fetuses (15-18 days gestation) labeled with the fluorescent dye fast blue (FB) were successfully transplanted into juvenile myelin-deficient rat spinal cord under direct observation.
(6) CO2 production from and uptake of alpha-glyceryl mono (palmitate-1-14C) were studied in an in vitro system using minced rat lung.
(7) The zonae pellucidae were isolated from ovarian tissue following described mincing techniques.
(8) Saturable binding of 125I-hCG to testicular homogenates was demonstrated, and physiologic concentrations of hCG were able to stimulate testosterone formation in testicular minces without the addition of exogenous precursors.
(9) A procedure for ethylenediaminetetraacetate extraction of minced Wilm's tumor was assessed as a method for isolating Wilm's tumor antigens.
(10) Minced tissues taken from such animals and infected with NDV in vitro produced similar relative amounts of IFN.
(11) Punch biopsy specimens of skin, obtained from the scalp and back of adult men, were minced and incubated with [3H]testosterone.
(12) Minced von Ebner's glands of rat tongue were incubated in vitro with histamine and histamine receptor antagonists.
(13) In adult guinea-pigs, a portion of the wall of the vas deferens was removed, minced and replaced.
(14) PAGE revealed that the pattern of radioactive proteins in the luminal fluid was markedly different from the well-characterized pattern of secretory proteins obtained by in vitro incubation of epididymal minces with labeled methionine.
(15) The confluent cells were then cultured together with minced rat tail tendon collagen in alpha-MEM lacking proline, lysine, glycine and fetal calf serum for up to 7 days, after which they were processed for electron microscopy.
(16) Each collaborator first examined 2 practice blocks containing 20% mince, and then examined 6 blind duplicate samples of 5 lb cod blocks from each of 3 test lots containing, respectively, 26.25, 18.75, and 12.5% mince.
(17) Lula responded by insisting that his government would not stray from its quest to protect the Amazon and appointed another high-profile environmentalist, Green party founder Carlos Minc, as his new minister.
(18) Minced neonatal pancreatic tissue from 3-6 canine littermates was placed in the peritoneal cavity of five alloxan diabetic dogs without separation of endocrine and exocrine tissue.
(19) The tumor specimens were minced into fragments approximately 1 mm in diameter and cultured in plastic culture flasks in RPMI 1640 medium supplemented with 10% heat-inactivated fetal calf serum (FCS) and 50% patients serum.
(20) The authors conclude that minced tissue and omental pouch technique are preferable for autologous splenic implantation.
Minge
Definition:
(v. t.) To mingle; to mix.
(n.) A small biting fly; a midge.
Example Sentences:
(1) But Anwar, as leader of a three-party coalition that includes Islamists and an ethnic Chinese party, will have his work cut out, according to Malaysian political analyst Ong Kian Ming.
(2) More recently, Ming Campbell was regularly ridiculed for being too old when leader of the Liberal Democrats, and he was only in his mid-60s.
(3) And up there, looming over it all is Zynga, social gaming's Ming the Merciless.
(4) The former foreign secretary, William Hague, warned earlier this month that central bankers could lose their independence if they ignored public anger over low interest rates, while Michael Gove, the leading pro-leave campaigner and former cabinet minister, compared Carney to the Chinese emperor Ming , whose “person was held to be inviolable and without imperfections” and whose critics were flayed alive.
(5) This study was based on the data collected through personal interviews by the Yang-Ming Crusade, organized by students of National Yang-Ming Medical College, during the summer vacations in 1983-1985.
(6) Photograph: Alamy We haven't yet seen Apple's iPad 5, of course, but the notable KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, who has been accurate in the past about predicting Apple's moves, claims that the speculation around a 13in iPad is wrong, and that the iPad 6 will simply have a higher resolution screen.
(7) Twenty-seven Kun-Ming white mice were divided randomly into three groups of 9 animals.
(8) "Xu Ming is our old and longtime friend," Gu is seen telling her questioner, who identified herself as someone from the supreme people's procuratorate, the country's top prosecutor's office.
(9) The resulting cultural contact enriched and inspired an artistic golden age.“Ming” is still synonymous with superbly crafted works of staggering beauty.
(10) Authorities' control over the media in Guangdong has ramped up in recent years, according to Zhang Ming, a political science professor at Renmin University in Beijing and one of the letter's signatories.
(11) The others charged are former student protest leaders Eason Chung and Tommy Cheung, and the founders of the Occupy Central movement, Benny Tai, Rev Chu Yiu-ming and Chan Kin-man.
(12) In her memoir, she writes about her grandmother Ming, a terrifying-sounding woman who lived in China and knew Sun Yat-sen (the founder of modern China), and yes, she says archly, it's true that "comparisons have been drawn".
(13) Although rosewood is classified as an endangered species by the International Trade Convention, trade in that wood has risen dramatically, triggered by demand from well-off Chinese households for reproductions of Qing and Ming dynasty furniture.
(14) The Australian government needs to be very mindful that they are returning these people where there is a real risk they may be persecuted,” said Ming Yu, an Amnesty International spokeswoman.
(15) Clinical manifestations and immunogenetic aspects of Behçet's disease were investigated in the Veterans General Hospital of the National Yang-Ming Medical College, Taiwan.
(16) The population based registry of digestive tract tumours of the country of Cote-d'Or was used to assess the epidemiological and prognostic value of Ming classification.
(17) Here, the only change is that Miss Gulliver – Alfie's object of desire – has announced she is having a relationship with a former girl student, a development owing more to the chance it offers for Alfie to explore his "minge binge" lesbian fantasies than credibility.
(18) A community-based preventive medicine project was carried out by the Yang-Ming Crusade, organized by more than 180 students of National Yang-Ming Medical College, in July 1989.
(19) At the microscopic level, they suggest Lauren's classification in intestinal and diffuse forms or Ming's classification in expanding and infiltrating types.
(20) Later one calls one of the women “minging – an absolute one out of 10” as his friends laugh.