What's the difference between minding and minging?
Minding
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mind
(n.) Regard; mindfulness.
Example Sentences:
(1) Psychiatry unlike philosophy (with its problem of solipsism) recognizes the existence of other minds from the nonverbal communication between doctor and patient.
(2) I forgave him because I know for a fact that he wasn't in his right mind," she said.
(3) Amid the acrimony of the failed debate on the Malaysia Agreement, something was missed or forgotten: many in the left had changed their mind.
(4) Knapman concluded that the 40-year-old designer, whose full name was Lee Alexander McQueen, "killed himself while the balance of his mind was disturbed".
(5) Mindful of their own health ahead of their mission, astronauts at the Russia-leased launchpad in Kazakhstan remain in strict isolation in the days ahead of any launch to avoid exposure to infection.
(6) Jeremy Corbyn could learn a lot from Ken Livingstone | Hugh Muir Read more High-minded commentators will say that self-respect – as well as Burke’s dictum that MPs are more than delegates – should be enough to make members under pressure assert their independence.
(7) How big tobacco lost its final fight for hearts, lungs and minds Read more Shares in Imperial closed down 1% and British American Tobacco lost 0.75%, both underperforming the FTSE100’s 0.3% decline.
(8) This is a rare diagnosis but it should still be kept in mind, particularly in the immigrant population of the United Kingdom and Saudi Arabia and particularly of the Saudis from the southern provinces.
(9) The patients must be examined with these disorders in mind and when any drug related illness is found, it must be treated immediately.
(10) This may have been a pointed substitute programme, management perhaps imagining a future where electronic presenters will simply download their minds to MP3-players.
(11) This is welcome news but it needs to be borne in mind that the manufacturing sector is still far from racing ahead and serious doubts remain about the strength of demand for manufactured goods over the medium term, particularly once stimulative measures start being withdrawn.
(12) The result will be yet another humiliating hammering for Labour in a seat it could never win, but hey, never mind.
(13) As a member of the state Assembly, Walker voted for a bill known as the Woman’s Right to Know Act, which required physicians to provide women with full information prior to an abortion and established a 24-hour waiting period in the hope that some women might change their mind about undergoing the procedure.
(14) The glory lay in the defiance, although the outcome of the tie scarcely looks promising for Arsenal when the return at Camp Nou next Tuesday is borne in mind.
(15) Fred Goodwin was an accountant and no one ever accused the former chief executive of RBS of consuming mind-alterating substances – unless you count over-inhaling his own ego.
(16) While mindful of the potential difficulties which attend its introduction into the treatment situation there is an attempt to balance this position through a consideration of the appropriate conditions and modes of operation under which a humor-enriched approach may be efficacious.
(17) While circulating the quarries is illegal – you risk a fine of up to €60 – neither the IGC nor the police seem to mind the veteran cataphiles who possess a good knowledge of the underground space, and who respect their heritage.
(18) I personally felt grateful that British TV set itself apart from its international rivals in this way, not afraid to challenge, to stretch the mind and imagination.
(19) Marie Johansson, clinical lead at Oxford University's mindfulness centre , stressed the need for proper training of at least a year until health professionals can teach meditation, partly because on rare occasions it can throw up "extremely distressing experiences".
(20) That's so far from how my mind works that I find it puzzling.
Minging
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mince
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.