OTHER SIDE OF THE COIN
| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
| a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison. |
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coin (kɔɪn) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a metal disc or piece used as money |
| 2. | metal currency, as opposed to securities, paper currency, etcRelated: nummary |
| 3. | architect a variant spelling of quoin |
| 4. | pay a person back in his own coin to treat a person in the way that he has treated others |
| 5. | the other side of the coin the opposite view of a matter |
| —vb | |
| 6. | (tr) to make or stamp (coins) |
| 7. | (tr) to make into a coin |
| 8. | (tr) to fabricate or invent (words, etc) |
| 9. | informal (tr) to make (money) rapidly (esp in the phrase coin it in) |
| 10. | to coin a phrase said ironically after one uses a cliché |
| Related: nummary | |
| [C14: from Old French: stamping die, from Latin cuneus wedge] | |
| 'coinable | |
| —adj | |
| 'coiner | |
| —n | |
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coin definition
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| COIN counterinsurgency |
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Coin definition
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."
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other side of the coin
The opposite aspect, as in I know you'd like to go, but the other side of the coin is that someone has to stay with the baby or The subscription is expensive, but the other side of the coin is that it's an excellent publication. This term replaced the older other side of the medal or other side of the shield about 1900.
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