What's the difference between mint and sour?

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.

Sour


Definition:

  • (superl.) Having an acid or sharp, biting taste, like vinegar, and the juices of most unripe fruits; acid; tart.
  • (superl.) Changed, as by keeping, so as to be acid, rancid, or musty, turned.
  • (superl.) Disagreeable; unpleasant; hence; cross; crabbed; peevish; morose; as, a man of a sour temper; a sour reply.
  • (superl.) Afflictive; painful.
  • (superl.) Cold and unproductive; as, sour land; a sour marsh.
  • (n.) A sour or acid substance; whatever produces a painful effect.
  • (v. t.) To cause to become sour; to cause to turn from sweet to sour; as, exposure to the air sours many substances.
  • (v. t.) To make cold and unproductive, as soil.
  • (v. t.) To make unhappy, uneasy, or less agreeable.
  • (v. t.) To cause or permit to become harsh or unkindly.
  • (v. t.) To macerate, and render fit for plaster or mortar; as, to sour lime for business purposes.
  • (v. i.) To become sour; to turn from sweet to sour; as, milk soon sours in hot weather; a kind temper sometimes sours in adversity.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The sensitivity of the taste system to the various qualities was, in decreasing order, salty, sweet, sour, and bitter.
  • (2) The parotid saliva of the caries-rampant group showed a significantly higher level of anodemigrating proteins, predominantly isoamylases, and a significantly lower level of cathode-migrating proteins than that of the caries-resistant group in both paraffin-stimulated and sour lemon-stimulated salivary flows.
  • (3) But the cocktails take centre stage and are like drinkable pieces of art – try the margarita or the pisco sour.
  • (4) The munching, and some data crunching, produced firm statistical findings ("The flavour cowy was correlated with age and sourness, but was not correlated to any other flavours or tastes").
  • (5) A shame such a landmark achievement was soured by Allam refusing to talk to the local council over a potential stadium expansion and trying to change the club’s name to Hull Tigers, which many fans vehemently oppose.
  • (6) Admittedly, there has been a bit of sour grapes in the English response to the success of Dempsey et al, and no doubt we will be treading those grapes into wine and drinking ourselves into oblivion if Team USA get much further – they are, as today's typically excitable NY Daily News front page informs us, now just "four wins from glory" .
  • (7) Kaesong, which facilitated nearly $2bn a year in cross-border trade, had been the last joint project left as relations between the two Koreas soured over the past five years.
  • (8) The UK remains one of the most diligent enforcers of convention rights, but it appears to have soured into one of the least appreciative national constituencies.
  • (9) Before the adenosine test, the perception of sourness was tested similarly with six concentrations of citric acid (1-100 mM).
  • (10) Sour taste stimuli (weak acids) decreased outward K+ currents and slightly reduced inward currents; bitter taste stimuli (quinine) reduced inward currents to a greater extent than outward currents.
  • (11) If i remember correctly, a third of the milk was turned sour, a Russian delicacy'.
  • (12) Instead, the different taste qualities--sweet, sour, salty, bitter--are subserved by different mechanisms.
  • (13) "They are taking a mixed strategy, which I would call the sweet and sour approach," Peter Beck, research fellow at Stanford University and a specialist on Korean affairs, told Reuters.
  • (14) On average, monosodium glutamate and seltzer, which mongrel dogs do not normally encounter in their diets, produced lower gastric acid secretion and pancreatic polypeptide release than sweet, sour, salty, bitter, and meaty tastes.
  • (15) Ruth Joseph and Sarah Nathan's crumbly little almond and lemon tarts are the perfect example of its charms, to my mind – not too sweet, not too sour, just intensely, deliciously zesty.
  • (16) Behavior of Staphylococcus aureus strains 100-A, 196-E, 254, 473, 505, and 521 in sweet (18 to 80% milk fat) and neutralized sour cream was studied.
  • (17) "That was for the players and their families," said Benítez, the implication being why should he risk souring the atmosphere by simply joining in?
  • (18) If the maximum investment choice is not taken, and NHS performance turns sour in future years, Stevens will be able to say, “I told you so”.
  • (19) They worked together at Porto, Chelsea and Internazionale but the relationship has soured.
  • (20) Suu Kyi's relationship with the generals has reportedly turned sour again In her tireless efforts to secure cooperation from the military, Suu Kyi has repeatedly expressed her appreciation, respect and “genuine” affection for the Tatmadaw (feudal military), which her father founded under Japan’s fascist patronage in December 1942, much to the dismay of many minorities who have borne the brunt of the organisation’s ruthless policies.

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