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coin
1[koin]
noun
a piece of metal stamped and issued by the authority of a government for use as money.
a number of such pieces.
Informal.money; cash.
He's got plenty of coin in the bank.
Architecture.quoin.
Archaic.a corner cupboard of the 18th century.
adjective
operated by, or containing machines operated by, inserting a coin or coins into a slot.
a coin laundry.
verb (used with object)
to make (coinage) by stamping metal.
The mint is coining pennies.
to convert (metal) into coinage.
The mint used to coin gold into dollars.
to make; invent; fabricate.
to coin an expression.
Metalworking.to shape the surface of (metal) by squeezing between two dies.
verb (used without object)
British Informal.to counterfeit, especially to make counterfeit money.
COIN
2[koin]
noun
coin
/ ɔɪ /
noun
a metal disc or piece used as money
metal currency, as opposed to securities, paper currency, etc
architect a variant spelling of quoin
to treat a person in the way that he has treated others
the opposite view of a matter
verb
(tr) to make or stamp (coins)
(tr) to make into a coin
(tr) to fabricate or invent (words, etc)
informal(tr) to make (money) rapidly (esp in the phrase coin it in )
said ironically after one uses a cliché
Other 51Թ Forms
- coinable adjective
- coiner noun
- miscoin verb
- recoin verb (used with object)
- ˈǾԱ noun
- ˈǾԲ adjective
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of coin1
Origin of coin2
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of coin1
Idioms and Phrases
the other side of the coin, the other side, aspect, or point of view; alternative consideration.
pay someone back in his / her own coin, to reciprocate or behave toward in a like way, especially inamicably; retaliate.
If they persist in teasing you, pay them back in their own coin.
coin money, to make or gain money rapidly.
Those who own stock in that restaurant chain are coining money.
Example Sentences
Forcing people to move or prohibiting their mobility are two sides of the same colonial or neocolonial coin.
Coin expert Adrian Marsden described the coin as a "massively significant" find that was struck in the 7th Century.
Some credit poor farmers using a clever substitute for meat while others think English pubs coined the name as a joke, mocking the Welsh for not affording real rabbit.
The coin dropped instantly back home in Punjab, which absorbed logo fashion like a sponge when luxury brands arrived in the 2000s.
In fact its use appears to have skyrocketed in the past quarter-century, though it was coined in the journal Nature in 1964.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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