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coin
1[ koin ]
noun
- a piece of metal stamped and issued by the authority of a government for use as money.
- a number of such pieces.
- Informal. money; cash:
He's got plenty of coin in the bank.
- Architecture. quoin ( defs 1, 2 ).
- Archaic. a corner cupboard of the 18th century.
adjective
- operated by, or containing machines operated by, inserting a coin or coins into a slot:
a coin laundry.
verb (used with object)
- to make (coinage) by stamping metal:
The mint is coining pennies.
- to convert (metal) into coinage:
The mint used to coin gold into dollars.
- to make; invent; fabricate:
to coin an expression.
- Metalworking. to shape the surface of (metal) by squeezing between two dies. Compare emboss ( def 3 ).
verb (used without object)
- British Informal. to counterfeit, especially to make counterfeit money.
COIN
2[ koin ]
noun
coin
/ ɔɪ /
noun
- a metal disc or piece used as money
- metal currency, as opposed to securities, paper currency, etc nummary
- architect a variant spelling of quoin
- pay a person back in his own cointo treat a person in the way that he has treated others
- the other side of the cointhe opposite view of a matter
verb
- tr to make or stamp (coins)
- tr to make into a coin
- tr to fabricate or invent (words, etc)
- informal.tr to make (money) rapidly (esp in the phrase coin it in )
- to coin a phrasesaid ironically after one uses a cliché
Derived Forms
- ˈǾԱ, noun
- ˈǾԲ, adjective
Other 51Թ Forms
- Ǿ·· adjective
- Ǿ· noun
- ·Ǿ verb
- ·Ǿ verb (used with object)
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of coin1
Origin of coin2
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of coin1
Idioms and Phrases
- coin money, Informal. to make or gain money rapidly:
Those who own stock in that restaurant chain are coining money.
- pay someone back in his / her own coin, to reciprocate or behave toward in a like way, especially inamicably; retaliate:
If they persist in teasing you, pay them back in their own coin.
- the other side of the coin, the other side, aspect, or point of view; alternative consideration.
More idioms and phrases containing coin
In addition to the idiom beginning with coin , also see other side of the coin ; pay back (in someone's own coin) .Example Sentences
Furthermore, seemingly opposed values may not be opposites at all, but merely two sides of the same coin.
So they sent the four-time Emmy nominee to the physician they said had “coined the phrase” stiff person syndrome, a doctor who was “the” expert in the field, hoping for a definitive diagnosis.
He's the one who coined “Gilded Age” and he's the one who said, “History doesn't repeat, but it rhymes.”
Like ransomware attacks, meme coin “rug pulls” can have many victims.
It was coined at the turn of the last century, when industrial output was in heavy machinery and physical goods that had to be shipped by the railroad companies dominating the transportation sector.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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