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Definition: MINCED |
MINCEDImperative & past participle1. Of Mince |
Date "MINCED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
Crosswords: MINCED |
| English words defined with "MINCED": beefburger ♦ Chinese fried rice, Chuet, croquette, Cro-quette ♦ dolmas ♦ egg roll, espanole ♦ frank, frankfurter, fried rice ♦ haggis, half-and-half dressing, hamburger, hot dog, hotdog ♦ Mince-meat ♦ onion bread, onion butter ♦ pate, pork pie ♦ rissole ♦ sauce espanole, sausage, sausage meat, Scotched collops, spring roll, stuffed grape leaves ♦ Thousand Island dressing, timbale, timbale case ♦ weenie, Wiener, wienerwurst, won ton, wonton. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "MINCED": Cock and Pie ♦ Drat 'em! ♦ Mantalini, minced meat. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "MINCED": Mince. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
References | |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Joad minced across in his bare feet |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | The wife minced a bit of meat, then crumbled some bread on a trencher, and placed it before me. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "MINCED" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 75.71% of the time. "MINCED" is used about 70 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 75.71% | 53 | 46,657 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 12.86% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 8.57% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.86% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 70 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "MINCED": minced fish ♦ minced meat ♦ minced meat croquette ♦ minced pie. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "MINCED": minced-meat, minced-up. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
minced | 10 |
minced garlic | 6 |
meat minced pie | 4 |
minced ginger | 3 |
minced meat | 3 |
beef minced recipe | 2 |
meat minced recipe | 2 |
minced pie | 2 |
minced chicken | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "MINCED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | i grirë (beaten, cankered, hackneyed, obsolete, outworn, stale, threadbare, trite). (various references) | |
Chinese | 剁碎 (mince). (various references) | |
Danish | hakket kød (hash, mince meat, minced meat). (various references) | |
Dutch | gehakt (hamburger meat, minced meat). (various references) | |
Esperanto | viandhaketaĵo (minced meat). (various references) | |
French | haché. (various references) | |
German | zerhackte, zerhackt (chopped up, minces). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מרוסק (crushed, mashed). (various references) | |
Italian | macinato (flour, meal, milled, mincemeat), trito (chopped, corny, hackneyed, stale, timeworn, trite, worn out). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 鯛飯 (rice with minced sea bream), ミンク鯨 (minced beef, mince-meat, mince-pie, minke whale, mint, mint julep, mood, mood conditioning, moody, Moore, moose, mousse, mouton, mucho, Muse, peppermint, piked whale), "り身 (minced fish or meat), 叩き (duster, minced meat). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | たたき (concrete floor, minced meat), たいめし (rice with minced sea bream), すりみ (minced fish or meat), ミンチ (minced beef). (various references) | |
Norwegian | kjøttkaker (minced meat). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | incedmay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | carne picada (mince). (various references) | |
Romanian | pârjoalã (minced meat croquette). (various references) | |
Russian | крошить рубленый. (various references) | |
Spanish | carne picada (forcemeat, hamburger, mince, minced meat, mincemeat). (various references) | |
Swedish | slarvsylta (minced meat, mincemeat), fiskfärs (minced fish). (various references) | |
Turkish | kıyma (chop meat, chopping up, ground beef, ground meat, hamburger, mince, minced meat, mincing). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | січений. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"MINCED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: emince, incid, maced, mancer, mence, mensed, menued, Micad, miced, micet, minaccia, minca, mincet, Minchem, Mincher, mincu, mincy, minged, minke, minued, Moncer, Munkedal, vinced. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "MINCED" (pronounced mi"nst) |
| 4 | -i" n s t | convinced, evinced, unconvinced, winced. |
| 3 | -n s t | against, announced, advanced, balanced, bounced, commenced, condensed, countenanced, counterbalanced, danced, denounced, dispensed, distanced, enhanced, ensconced, entranced, evidenced, experienced, fenced, financed, glanced, incensed, inconvenienced, inexperienced, influenced, licensed, mispronounced, nuanced, pounced, pronounced, referenced, refinanced, renounced, sensed, sentenced, silenced, trounced, unannounced, unbalanced, unbeknownst, underfinanced, unfenced, unlicensed. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-e-i-m-n" | |
-1 letter: denim, medic, mince, mined. | |
-2 letters: cedi, cine, deni, dice, dime, dine, emic, iced, idem, mend, mice, mien, mind, mine, nice, nide. | |
-3 letters: den, die, dim, din, end, ice, med, men, mid, nim. | |
-4 letters: de, ed, em, en, id, in, me, mi, ne. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-d-e-i-m-n" | |
+1 letter: demonic, endemic. | |
+2 letters: combined, comedian, daemonic, demoniac, endemics, endermic, machined, maenadic, medicine, pandemic. | |
+3 letters: calamined, comedians, comingled, companied, compendia, condiment, confirmed, crimsoned, ctenidium, cyanamide, decamping, decennium, demoniacs, demonical, dominance, impedance, impudence, incommode, indecorum, macedoine, manicured, medicinal, medicined, medicines, mendacity, mendicant, mendicity, miscoined, muscadine, nicknamed, pandemics, princedom, unclaimed. | |
+4 letters: adamancies, admittance, aldermanic, androecium, calcimined, campaigned, chairmaned, championed, cimetidine, comedienne, commending, commingled, comminuted, communised, communized, compendium, complained, condemning, condiments, criminated, culminated, cyanamides, decenniums, decimating, decimation, declaiming, demoniacal, discommend, diseconomy, dominances, dominicker, dormancies, echinoderm, economised, economized, endemicity, entodermic, imbalanced, impedances, imprudence, impudences, incommoded, incommodes, incumbered, indecorums, indictment, inducement, luminesced, macedoines, machinated, mechanized, mediagenic, medicament, medicating, medication, medicinals, medicining, mendacious, mendicancy, mendicants, micronized, midsection, miscounted, mordancies, muscadines, nematicide, nematocide, nonmedical, princedoms, recombined, reminisced, unacademic, uncombined, undomestic. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Quotations: Fiction | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Bibliography |
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