That's weird :)
I learned yesterday vocabulary connecting with cooking and I found these words:
to mince (verb) - to cut meat into very small pieces using a special machine,
mince (noun, BrE) - meat that has been cut into very small pieces with a special machine.
But mincemeat isn't meat, it's a mixture of dried fruit, nuts, sugar, etc. Isn't it weird, is it?
;)
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The verb "mince" can mean to cut any kind of food into small pieces (not just meat), and you can do it with a knife (not a machine).
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Mince meat = finely minced meat for example to be used in pierogi or a meat pie. Fruit mince is used for sweet pies
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My Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English for Advanced Learners gives only this one meaning. :)
Greetings!
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I just took a look at my dictionary, and it showed two meaning of mincemeat, fristly it is also " Finely chopped meat." second, it is A mixture, as of finely chopped apples, raisins, spices, meat, and rum or brandy, used especially as a pie filling.
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