mint, invent, invention, bookhood, cultivate, cultivator, land-holder

A Medical Class ‘Minted by the Pandemic’

By EMMA GOLDBERG Across the nation, medical students are graduating directly into the path of an epic health crisis.

cultivator	(noun) Someone concerned with the science or art or business of cultivating the soil.
Synonyms:	agriculturalist, grower, raiser
Usage:	He soon became a land-holder, then a prosperous cultivator of the soil, and shortly after a town-officer.

Antivirus Software Makers Struggle to Keep Up

By NICOLE PERLROTH

The programs rarely block freshly minted strains because the creators of malware move too fast.

Scope(r) Original Mint Mouthwash Recalled by Procter & Gamble Due to Failure to Meet Child-Resistant Closure Requirement

In our own time, the best example of being 'fed up' is in the black comedy Monty Python's The Meaning of Life, 1983, in which the bad-tempered and satiated Monsieur Creosote, played by Terry Jones, is induced to eat just 'one more wafer-thin mint', before exploding.

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英国王室宝器保管官［出納長官］

the Keeper of the Exchange and Mint
造幣局長.

Her sketch of a London 2012 high jump athlete mid-Fosbury Flop beat 17,000 other entries in a Blue Peter competition to give her the chance to work with the Royal Mint on her design.


UBS's move to boost its capital base underlines its continuing struggles to return to profitability even as its competitors are minting money.

Edward Said (薩義德)《人文主義與民主批評‧ 作家和知識分子的公共角色》朱生堅譯，北京：三聯， 2013，頁161：
"invent"* 依 inventio (Latin) 修辭學義，強調再度發現，或過去成果之重新組合；而"invention**"為浪漫用法，表示從草稿中創造出某東西，即某人從已知的歷史和社會事實設想出更好的情形。


底下的牛津網路詞典則無此分別。
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/invent


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Origin

Late 15th century (in the sense ‘find out, discover’): from Latin invent- ‘contrived, discovered’, from the verb invenire, from in- ‘into’ + venire ‘come’.

invention
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NOUN

mass noun

• 1The action of inventing something, typically a process or device.

  ‘the invention of printing in the 15th century’

  1. 1.1count noun Something, typically a process or device, that has been invented.
     ‘medieval inventions included spectacles for reading and the spinning wheel’
  2. 1.2 Creative ability.
     ‘his powers of invention were rather limited’
  3. 1.3count noun Something fabricated or made up.
     ‘you know my story is an invention’
  4. 1.4 Used as a title for a short piece of music.
     ‘Bach's two-part Inventions’

Origin

Middle English (in the sense ‘finding out, discovery’): from Latin inventio(n-), from invenire ‘discover’ (see invent).

bookhood

Etymology[edit]

From book +‎ -hood.

Noun[edit]

bookhood (uncountable)

1. Knowledge of books; scholarship. quotations ▼
2. 1902, The Metallographist:

   In case of a book, however, mutilation can go much farther without destroying bookhood.

   The state or dignity of a book.

spearmint
mint
n.

1. A member of the mint family.
2. 1. Any of various plants of the genus Mentha, characteristically having aromatic foliage and nearly regular flowers. Some plants are cultivated for their aromatic oil and used for flavoring.
   2. The foliage of some of these plants.
3. Any of various similar or related plants, such as the stone mint.
4. A candy flavored with mint.

[Middle English minte, from Old English, from Germanic *minta, from Latin menta, possibly from Greek minthē.]

minty mint'y adj.

mint
n.

1. A place where the coins of a country are manufactured by authority of the government.
2. A place or source of manufacture or invention.
3. An abundant amount, especially of money.

tr.v., mint·ed, mint·ing, mints.

1. To produce (money) by stamping metal; coin.
2. To invent or fabricate: a phrase that was minted for one occasion.

adj.
Undamaged as if freshly minted: The painting was in mint condition.

[Middle English, from Old English mynet, coin, from Latin monēta. See money.]

minter mint'er n.