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单词 mint
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mintnoun

uk/mɪnt/us/mɪnt/

mint noun (PLANT)

B2 [ U ] a herb whose leaves have a strong, fresh smell and taste and are used for giving flavour to food:

a sprig of mint
mint-flavoured gum/toothpaste

[ C ] a sweet with a mint flavour:

a packet of extra-strong mints
after-dinner chocolate mints

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  • Top each bowl with a generous sprinkling of fresh mint.
  • I tried sucking (on) a mint to stop myself coughing.

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Herbs & spices

  • allspice
  • basil
  • bay leaf
  • black pepper
  • borage
  • cinnamon
  • condiment
  • coriander
  • cumin
  • curry paste
  • jalapeño
  • lemon grass
  • mace
  • marjoram
  • masala
  • spearmint
  • spice
  • tarragon
  • thyme
  • turmeric

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Sweets

mint noun (MONEY)

[ C ] a place where the new coins of a country are made

[ S ] informal an extremely large amount of money:

If his books sell worldwide, he'll make a mint.

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Factories

  • assembly line
  • brewery
  • cannery
  • conveyor belt
  • cooling tower
  • industrial estate
  • industrial park
  • mill
  • miller
  • on the factory floor idiom
  • pallet
  • plant
  • power station
  • production line
  • slaughterhouse
  • steel mill
  • sweatshop
  • tannery
  • the shop floor
  • workshop

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Large amounts of money

mintadjective [ before noun ]

uk/mɪnt/us/mɪnt/

Mint stamps and coins, etc. have not been used:

A collector would pay $500 for a mint copy.
in mint condition

perfect, as if new:

I bought a two-year-old car, in mint condition, with less than 20,000 miles.

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New

  • a breath of fresh air idiom
  • afresh
  • brand new
  • brave new
  • break the mould idiom
  • breath
  • injection
  • innovation
  • innovative
  • latest
  • latter-day
  • minute 1
  • neo-
  • novel
  • novelty
  • original
  • originality
  • pristine
  • revolutionary
  • up-to-the-minute idiom

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Perfect and faultless

mintverb [ T ]

uk/mɪnt/us/mɪnt/

mint verb [ T ] (COIN)

to produce a coin for the government

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Industrial processing

  • can 1
  • cast
  • desalinate
  • desalination
  • die-cast
  • extract
  • fluoridate
  • mould
  • nurdles
  • plastic
  • preserve
  • process
  • raw material
  • refine
  • refinement
  • reprocess
  • smelt 1
  • tan
  • treat
  • work

mint verb [ T ] (NEW THING)

to produce something new, especially to invent a new phrase or word:

a freshly minted slogan/phrase
newly minted college graduates

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Creating and producing

  • bear fruit idiom
  • bring
  • bring sth out
  • churn sth out
  • cobble
  • craft
  • mass-produce
  • on the go idiom
  • overproduce
  • patch
  • patch sth together
  • phase
  • pump
  • raise
  • rush
  • turn sth in
  • turn sth out
  • uncreative
  • unleash
  • unproductive

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