What's the difference between mint and mitt?

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.

Mitt


Definition:

  • (n.) A mitten; also, a covering for the wrist and hand and not for the fingers.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This suggests his wealth exceeds the total worth of 2012 GOP nominee Mitt Romney, who was attacked for his wealth throughout the campaign.
  • (2) It is claimed that Mitt Romney, the Republican presidential candidate, was "starstruck" by his association with Eastwood and that the film-maker's speech was not vetted beforehand.
  • (3) That's Mitt Romney, the man with a car elevator and multiple homes.
  • (4) 3.46am BST Here's the instant response from Ewen MacAskill , at the scene of the debate-crime: Barack Obama staged a strong comeback in his second showdown with Mitt Romney, with the president describing his Republican opponent as "offensive" in suggesting he was playing politics over Benghazi and portraying him as more extreme than George W Bush on social issues such as women's rights.
  • (5) 5.32pm GMT South Carolina governor Nikki Haley has come out... to introduce Mitt Romney?
  • (6) Republicans were supposed to learn from Mitt Romney but I don’t think they did.” Allegations of rigging were widespread, even though a vote has not yet been cast, but few were willing to predict what kind of backlash there would be.
  • (7) His move so close to the election is likely to draw fire from Republican critics, though a response to the announcement from presidential candidate Mitt Romney was notable by its absence.
  • (8) During the 2012 presidential election, Republican nominee Mitt Romney regularly liked to joke that President Obama wanted the US economy to look "more like Europe".
  • (9) Republican Mitt Romney, for example, raised $18.4m in his first three months of the 2012 campaign.
  • (10) 7.00pm GMT Fifth question : has the president had the discussion with Mitt Romney that he promised he would on election night?
  • (11) Mitt Romney's historic gaffe caught on video – published, with great timing, by the left-leaning Mother Jones magazine – in which he said that his campaign was writing off 47% of American voters since they "depended on government" handouts, was committed in an equally significant manner, as he delivered the remarks to a closed group of potential major donors in Florida.
  • (12) What the papers say The Economist (for Obama) "A man who once personified hope and centrism set a new low by unleashing attacks on Mitt Romney even before the first Republican primary.
  • (13) Mitt Romney praises Trump after 'deal with the devil' dinner Read more “It’s not about revenge, it’s about what’s good for the country, and I’m able to put this stuff behind us,” Trump said in a television interview on NBC’s Today show on Friday.
  • (14) Obama doesn't have much to say, and neither does Mitt Romney but after that Libya cock-up his brain is mush and he starts going on about two parent families – what?
  • (15) The Romney Family Table is available online and in bookstores now, and could serve as the perfect Christmas gift for anyone who likes Mitt Romney, or likes seeing pictures of someone else's happy, gorgeous family, or simply is determined to ensure that the Romneys don't just dissolve into obscurity.
  • (16) That would be strike out it seems, as Napoli foul-tips one into the catcher's mitt, the first strikeout for Matt Moore.
  • (17) But as Republicans grapple with how to respond to groups like Black Lives Matter, they risk inflicting the kind of harm that in 2012 earned GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney just 6% of the African American vote.
  • (18) So far the Republican primary has spoiled us, from Rick Perry's "oops" to corporate asset-stripper Mitt Romney's admission that he liked firing people, delivered just before he was snapped apparently receiving a sit-down shoe-shine from an underling – not a good look for a would-be man of the people.
  • (19) October 17, 2012 2.21am BST Oh, a bit of a to-do between Macho Mitt and Obama, over federal licenses and oil drilling, and Mitt's looking a bit Al Gore 2000 here, wandering around being all aggro and complaining about the rules.
  • (20) Where we already have the electoral numbers, our political vengeance has been merciless against the GOP; witness California after its electoral dalliance with anti-immigrant policies or Mitt Romney’s disastrous 2012 campaign .