Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A small piece of metal, usually flat and circular, authorized by a government for use as money.
- n. Metal money considered as a whole.
- n. A flat circular piece or object felt to resemble metal money: a pizza topped with coins of pepperoni.
- n. Architecture A corner or cornerstone.
- n. A mode of expression considered standard: Two-word verbs are valid linguistic coin in the 20th century.
- v. To make (pieces of money) from metal; mint or strike: coined silver dollars.
- v. To make pieces of money from (metal): coin gold.
- v. To devise (a new word or phrase).
- adj. Requiring one or more pieces of metal money for operation: a coin washing machine.
- idiom. the other side of the coin One of two differing or opposing views or sides.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In architecture, a corner or an angle. See quoin.
- n. The specific name given to various wedge-shaped pieces used for different purposes, as—
- n. for raising or lowering a piece of ordnance;
- n. for locking a printers' form;
- n. for fixing casks in their places, as on board a ship. See quoin.
- n. A die employed for stamping money.
- n. Hence A piece of metal, as gold, silver, copper, or some alloy, converted into money by impressing on it officially authorized marks, figures, or characters: as, gold coins; a copper coin; counterfeit coins.
- n. Collectively, coined money; coinage; a particular quantity or the general supply of metallic money: as, a large stock of coin; the current coin of the realm.
- n. Figuratively, anything that serves for payment, requital, or recompense.
- n. [F.] The clock of a stocking.
- To stamp and convert into money; mint: as, to coin gold.
- To make by coining metals: said of money.
- To represent on a coin.
- To make; fabricate; invent: as, to coin words.
- In tin-works, to weigh and stamp (tin blocks).
- To yield to the process of minting; be suitable for conversion into metallic money; be coinable.
- n. A quince.
Wiktionary
- n. money A piece of currency, usually metallic and in the shape of a disc, but sometimes polygonal, or with a hole in the middle.
- n. A token used in a special establishment like a casino (also called a chip).
- n. One of the suits of minor arcana in tarot, or a card of that suit.
- v. to create coins.
- v. to make up or invent, and establish
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A quoin; a corner or external angle; a wedge. See coigne, and quoin.
- n. A piece of metal on which certain characters are stamped by government authority, making it legally current as money; -- much used in a collective sense.
- n. That which serves for payment or recompense.
- v. To make of a definite fineness, and convert into coins, as a mass of metal; to mint; to manufacture.
- v. To make or fabricate; to invent; to originate.
- v. To acquire rapidly, as money; to make.
- v. To manufacture counterfeit money.
WordNet 3.0
- v. make up
- n. a flat metal piece (usually a disc) used as money
- v. form by stamping, punching, or printing
Etymologies
- Middle English, from Old French, die for stamping coins, wedge, from Latin cuneus, wedge. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“United States and England being the two great commercial and gold producing nations, speaking the same tongue, and having the same coinage, would make the coin and the _language of the coin_ of the world the same, the first great step toward a universal language.”
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“The new Qin coin is inscribed simply with its weight, expressed in two Chinese characters ban liang.”
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“I will admit that the coin is a bit busy for being the back of a quarter, but the Grizzly catching the fish is awesome.”
“In many civilizations debasing a coin is a very serious offense and punishable by death.”
“As ruthless hunters search for the stolen artifact, Gray Pierce discovers that the coin is the key to unlocking a plot that dates back to the Cold War and threatens the very foundation of humanity.”
“Another side of the coin is the irony of a officer employed by a (even-if-uncharged) DNA-collecting organisation, wanting privacy. on June 17, 2009 at 9: 22 pm inspectorgadget”
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“While it has been lightly dipped and lightly cleaned, the overall look of the coin is appealing.”
“The Israel Antiquities Authority says the coin is the heaviest and has the highest contemporary value of any coin ever found in an excavation in Israel.”
“Even so, if a coin is artificially toned, it will, in most cases, have the same metallic composition, especially including trace metals, as it did before it was artificially toned.”
“This coin is actually rarer than its gold counterpart.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘coin’.
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
A complete Barron's Wordlist for GRE preparation. Your online flashcard replacement.
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IMCO - EU nomenclature
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Pterodactyl's Game of Postal Abbrevia...
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GCI
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Two years
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Basic English Vocabulary
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SAT PSAT ALPHABETICAL C
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Sat Vocabulary List
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Filthy Stinking Rich
Monetary units and other words that mean money. Other financial words are allowed too, as long as they're principally about money. Get it, principally? I kill me.
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Idioms or Phrases or "expressions"
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Tweets
Looking for tweets for coin.

dario to coin something = to make it up Apr 30, 2010
tbtabby Means "dogs" in Scottish. Jul 13, 2009
bilby In Italy, the name of a department store, pronounced Co-In. Nov 12, 2008
sionnach French corner. Jan 9, 2008
brtom "Attend, ye skilled to coin the precious tale,
Creating proof, where innuendos fail!"
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