Dime

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  • noun. A coin of the United States or Canada worth ten cents.
  • idiom. (a dime a dozen) Overly abundant; commonplace.
  • idiom. (on a dime) At a precise point; within a narrowly defined area.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A tithe.
  • noun. The number ten.
  • noun. A silver coin of the United States, of the value of 10 cents, being the tenth part of a dollar, worth about pence English.
  • Sold for a dime.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A silver coin of the United States, of the value of ten cents; the tenth of a dollar.
  • noun. a novel, commonly sensational and trashy, which is sold for a dime, or ten cents; -- they were popular from ca. 1850 to ca. 1920. Sometimes the term is still applied to any novel of the type, though the price has greatly increased.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A coin worth one-tenth of a dollar. The physical coin is smaller than a penny.
  • noun. A coin worth one-tenth of a Canadian dollar.
  • noun. An assist
  • noun. A playing card with the rank of ten
  • noun. Ten dollars
  • noun. A thousand dollars
  • noun. A measurement of illicit drugs (usually marijuana) sold in ten dollar bags.
  • noun. A very small area
  • noun. Payment responsibility
  • noun. A beautiful woman (10 from the 10-point scale)
  • verb. To inform on, to turn in to the authorities, to rat on, especially anonymously.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a United States coin worth one tenth of a dollar
  • noun. street name for a packet of illegal drugs that is sold for ten dollars
  • Word Usage
    "However, the fact that this dime is almost universally known as the Mercury dime is an indication of the potential pitfalls of too clever symbolism."
    cross-reference
    buck  dime novel  dollar  mill  nickel  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    coin  deck  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Grime  Lyme  Time  anticrime  chime  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    coin  halfpenny  nickel  penny  sixpence  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    C  C-note  G  G-note  buck  
    verb-form
    dimed  dimes