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[koin] Pronunciation Key
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[koin] Pronunciation Key –noun
–adjective
–verb (used with object)
–verb (used without object)
—Idioms
| 1. | a piece of metal stamped and issued by the authority of a government for use as money. |
| 2. | a number of such pieces. |
| 3. | Informal. money; cash: He's got plenty of coin in the bank. |
| 4. | Architecture. quoin (defs. 1, 2). |
| 5. | Archaic. a corner cupboard of the 18th century. |
| 6. | operated by, or containing machines operated by, inserting a coin or coins into a slot: a coin laundry. |
| 7. | to make (coinage) by stamping metal: The mint is coining pennies. |
| 8. | to convert (metal) into coinage: The mint used to coin gold into dollars. |
| 9. | to make; invent; fabricate: to coin an expression. |
| 10. | Metalworking. to shape the surface of (metal) by squeezing between two dies. Compare emboss (def. 3). |
| 11. | British Informal. to counterfeit, esp. to make counterfeit money. |
| 12. | coin money, Informal. to make or gain money rapidly: Those who own stock in that restaurant chain are coining money. |
| 13. | pay someone back in his or her own coin, to reciprocate or behave toward in a like way, esp. inamicably; retaliate: If they persist in teasing you, pay them back in their own coin. |
| 14. | the other side of the coin, the other side, aspect, or point of view; alternative consideration. |
[Origin: 1300–50; ME coyn(e), coygne < AF; MF coin, cuigne wedge, corner, die < L cuneus wedge]
] —Related forms
coin·a·ble, adjective
coiner, noun
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American Heritage Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
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(koin) Pronunciation Key
n.
tr.v. coined, coin·ing, coins
adj. Requiring one or more pieces of metal money for operation: a coin washing machine. [Middle English, from Old French, die for stamping coins, wedge, from Latin cuneus, wedge.] coin'a·ble adj., coin'er n. |
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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
coin (n.)
coin (n.)
1304, from O.Fr. coigne "a wedge, cornerstone," from L. cuneus "a wedge." Die for stamping metal was wedge-shaped, and the word came to mean "thing stamped, a piece of money" by c.1386. To coin a phrase is c.1590. The "cornerstone" sense is now usually quoin.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
WordNet - Cite This Source - Share This
| coin | |
noun | |
| 1. | a flat metal piece (usually a disc) used as money |
verb | |
| 1. | make up; "coin phrases or words" |
| 2. | form by stamping, punching, or printing; "strike coins"; "strike a medal" [syn: mint] |
WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University.
American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms - Cite This Source - Share This
coin
In addition to the idiom beginning with coin, also see other side of the coin; pay back (in someone's own coin).
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
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U.S. Gazetteer - Cite This Source - Share This
Coin, IA (city, FIPS 14970) Location: 40.65588 N, 95.23523 W
Population (1990): 278 (135 housing units)
Area: 2.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 51636
U.S. Gazetteer, U.S. Census Bureau
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
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Coin\ (koin), n. [F. coin, formerly also coing, wedge, stamp, corner, fr. L. cuneus wedge; prob. akin to E. cone, hone. See Hone, n., and cf. Coigne, Quoin, Cuneiform.]1. A quoin; a corner or external angle; a wedge. See Coigne, and Quoin. 2. 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. It is alleged that it [a subsidy] exceeded all the current coin of the realm. --Hallam. 3. That which serves for payment or recompense. The loss of present advantage to flesh and blood is repaid in a nobler coin. --Hammond. Coin balance. See Illust. of Balance. To pay one in his own coin, to return to one the same kind of injury or ill treatment as has been received from him. [Colloq.]
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Coin\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Coined (koind); p. pr. & vb. n. Coining.]1. To make of a definite fineness, and convert into coins, as a mass of metal; to mint; to manufacture; as, to coin silver dollars; to coin a medal. 2. To make or fabricate; to invent; to originate; as, to coin a word. Some tale, some new pretense, he daily coined, To soothe his sister and delude her mind. --Dryden. 3. To acquire rapidly, as money; to make. Tenants cannot coin rent just at quarter day. --Locke.
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Coin
Coin\, v. i. To manufacture counterfeit money. They cannot touch me for coining. --Shak.
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Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
Coin
Before the Exile the Jews had no regularly stamped money. They made use of uncoined shekels or talents of silver, which they weighed out (Gen. 23:16; Ex. 38:24; 2 Sam. 18:12). Probably the silver ingots used in the time of Abraham may have been of a fixed weight, which was in some way indicated on them. The "pieces of silver" paid by Abimelech to Abraham (Gen. 20:16), and those also for which Joseph was sold (37:28), were proably in the form of rings. The shekel was the common standard of weight and value among the Hebrews down to the time of the Captivity. Only once is a shekel of gold mentioned (1 Chr. 21:25). The "six thousand of gold" mentioned in the transaction between Naaman and Gehazi (2 Kings 5:5) were probably so many shekels of gold. The "piece of money" mentioned in Job 42:11; Gen. 33:19 (marg., "lambs") was the Hebrew _kesitah_, probably an uncoined piece of silver of a certain weight in the form of a sheep or lamb, or perhaps having on it such an impression. The same Hebrew word is used in Josh. 24:32, which is rendered by Wickliffe "an hundred yonge scheep."
Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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| COIN counterinsurgency |
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