Coin

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th 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.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. 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
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • 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.
  • verb-intransitive. To manufacture counterfeit money.
  • The 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.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. make up
  • n. a flat metal piece (usually a disc) used as money
  • v. form by stamping, punching, or printing
  • Verb Form
    coined    coining    coins   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    Variant
    coigne    quoin   
    Form
    coinage   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    quoin    invent    originate    make   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Boyne    Burgoyne    adjoin    conjoin    enjoin    goin    groin    join    loin    purloin   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    gold    jewel    money    cash    currency    treasure    jewelry    card    clothe    ornament