What's the difference between mint and vast?

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.

Vast


Definition:

  • (superl.) Waste; desert; desolate; lonely.
  • (superl.) Of great extent; very spacious or large; also, huge in bulk; immense; enormous; as, the vast ocean; vast mountains; the vast empire of Russia.
  • (superl.) Very great in numbers, quantity, or amount; as, a vast army; a vast sum of money.
  • (superl.) Very great in importance; as, a subject of vast concern.
  • (n.) A waste region; boundless space; immensity.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It is a place that occupies two thirds of our planet but very little is known of vast swaths of it.
  • (2) In this phase the educational practices are vastly determined by individual activities which form the basis for later regulations by the state.
  • (3) The effects of brain injury can be catastrophic and long-term so the impact of more research would be vast, but affected numbers are too small so it loses out.
  • (4) Does anybody honestly believe the vast majority of migrants don’t want that too?
  • (5) The vast majority of small cells were probably displaced amacrine cells.
  • (6) I never had any doubt that the vast majority of people engaged in "business" are not the exploiters but the exploited.
  • (7) In response, detainees – the vast majority of them failed asylum seekers who have committed no crime – waved and shared messages of solidarity.
  • (8) Not because we are “chippy, moronic gits” (thank you, Twitter), but because we do not see the social benefit of a two-tier education system that provides a small minority with vastly more opportunities than the rest.
  • (9) It is important to pay attention to the outcome of this study in (postgraduate) education for general practitioners, as they treat the vast majority of urethritis patients.
  • (10) The drugs used in early studies - diuretics, vasodilators and reserpine - greatly improved mortality from malignant hypertension, apoplectic stroke and congestive heart failure, but had little or no effect in persons with milder degrees of elevated blood pressure, who constitute the vast majority of hypertensives.
  • (11) We report that specific human (dC-dA)n.(dG-dT)n blocks are polymorphic in length among individuals and therefore represent a vast new pool of potential genetic markers.
  • (12) The discovery of this vast tranche of documents has prompted historians to suggest that a major reappraisal of the end of Britain's empire will be required once these materials have been digested – a "hidden history" if ever there were one.
  • (13) The vast majority of the epithelial cells were secretory, and the rest were ciliated.
  • (14) Even the landscape is secretive: vast tracts of crown land and hidden valleys with nothing but a dead end road and lonely farmhouse, with a tractor and trailer pulled across the farmyard for protection.
  • (15) Lethal pulmonary embolism is associated with hypoxemia and hypocapnia in the vast majority of cases.
  • (16) The vast majority of members would rather have a quiet body, offering technical assistance here and there and convening an occasional summit.
  • (17) Europe was never going to be another America or Soviet Union, with one constitution imposing national homogeneity over vast distances, and with people and investment migrating ceaselessly in search of employment.
  • (18) In the southern state of Karnataka, corruption is blamed for uncontrolled mining in vast areas of protected forest.
  • (19) Mali: a guide to the conflict Read more In response, the Tuareg separatists attacked military and police points as far as Tenenkou in the south, to prove it still controlled vast swaths of the desert territory.
  • (20) The vast majority of the subjects had correctly been given the diagnosis of cerebrovascular disease.

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