Coin

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  • noun. A small piece of metal, usually flat and circular, authorized by a government for use as money.
  • noun. Metal money considered as a whole.
  • noun. A flat circular piece or object felt to resemble metal money.
  • noun. A mode of expression considered standard.
  • noun. undefined
  • transitive verb. To make (pieces of money) from metal; mint or strike.
  • transitive verb. To make pieces of money from (metal).
  • transitive verb. To devise (a new word or phrase).
  • adjective. Requiring one or more pieces of metal money for operation.
  • idiom. (the other side of the coin) One of two differing or opposing views or sides.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A quince.
  • 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.
  • noun. In architecture, a corner or an angle. See quoin.
  • noun. The specific name given to various wedge-shaped pieces used for different purposes, as—
  • noun. for raising or lowering a piece of ordnance;
  • noun. for locking a printers' form;
  • noun. for fixing casks in their places, as on board a ship. See quoin.
  • noun. A die employed for stamping money.
  • noun. 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.
  • noun. 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.
  • noun. Figuratively, anything that serves for payment, requital, or recompense.
  • noun. [F.] The clock of a stocking.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A quoin; a corner or external angle; a wedge. See coigne, and quoin.
  • noun. 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.
  • noun. That which serves for payment or recompense.
  • noun. See Illust. of Balance.
  • noun. to return to one the same kind of injury or ill treatment as has been received from him.
  • transitive verb. To make of a definite fineness, and convert into coins, as a mass of metal; to mint; to manufacture.
  • transitive verb. To make or fabricate; to invent; to originate.
  • transitive verb. To acquire rapidly, as money; to make.
  • intransitive verb. To manufacture counterfeit money.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A piece of currency, usually metallic and in the shape of a disc, but sometimes polygonal, or with a hole in the middle.
  • noun. A token used in a special establishment like a casino (also called a chip).
  • noun. One of the suits of minor arcana in tarot, or a card of that suit.
  • verb. to create coins.
  • verb. to make up or invent, and establish
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. make up
  • noun. a flat metal piece (usually a disc) used as money
  • verb. form by stamping, punching, or printing
  • Word Usage
    "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."
    Form
    coinage  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Boyne  Burgoyne  adjoin  conjoin  enjoin  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    bead  card  cash  clothe  currency  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    L  angle  apex  beget  bend  
    variant
    coigne  quoin  
    verb-form
    coined  coining  coins