minting

Verb (1)

mint (third-person singular simple present mints, present participle minting, simple past and past participle minted)

1. (transitive) To reproduce (coins), usually en masse, under licence.
   • For some time past the legal currency in the various Provinces has been insufficient for use. Formerly the two Provinces of Fuchien and Kuangtung minted some large, round copper coins of excellent workmanship that were said, by the people after they were put into circulation, to be convenient.1914, Wen Pin Wei, chapter IV, in The Currency Problem in China, Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 111
2. To invent; to forge; to fabricate; to fashion.
   • Titles […] as may appeare to be easily minteda. 1627 (date written), Francis [Bacon], “Considerations Touching a Warre with Spaine. […]”, in William Rawley, editor, Certaine Miscellany Works of the Right Honourable Francis Lo. Verulam, Viscount...
3. (transitive) To create a crypto token.
   • Beeple’s collaged JPG was made, or “minted,” in February as a “nonfungible token,” or NFT.2021 March 11, Scott Reyburn, “JPG File Sells for $69 Million, as ‘NFT Mania’ Gathers Pace”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

Verb (2)

mint (third-person singular simple present mints, present participle minting, simple past and past participle minted)

1. (Northern England, Scotland, intransitive, provincial) To try, attempt; take aim.
2. (Northern England, Scotland, transitive, provincial) To try, attempt, endeavor; to take aim at; to try to hit; to purpose.
3. (Scotland, intransitive) To hint; suggest; insinuate.

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