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Coin

Coin Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Coin? [n] a metal piece (usually a disc) used as money [v] form by stamping, punching, or printing; "strike coins"; "strike a medal" [v] of phrases or words Synonyms \| Synonyms for Coin: mint \| strike Related Terms \| Find terms related to Coin: angle \| apex \| beget \| bend \| bifurcation \| bight \| bread \| breed \| bring forth \| bring into being \| call into being \| cant \| cash \| change \| chevron \| chips \| conceit \| conceive \| conceptualize \| concoct \| contrive \| cook up \| corner \| counterfeit \| crank \| create \| crook \| crotchet \| crown \| currency \| deflection \| design \| develop \| devise \| discover \| dogleg \| double eagle \| doubloon \| dough \| dream up \| ducat \| eagle \| elbow \| ell \| engender \| evolve \| experience imaginatively \| fabricate \| fancy \| fantasize \| fictionalize \| five-dollar gold piece \| forge \| fork \| frame \| furcation \| generate \| give being to \| give rise to \| gold piece \| guinea \| half crown \| half eagle \| hard money \| hatch \| hook \| ideate \| imagine \| improvise \| inaugurate \| inflection \| innovate \| introduce \| introduce new blood \| invent \| jack \| knee \| L \| legal tender \| make do with \| make innovations \| make money \| make up \| mature \| mazuma \| mint \| moidore \| mold \| money \| napoleon \| neologize \| neoterize \| nook \| originate \| piece \| piece of money \| piece of silver \| pioneer \| plan \| point \| pound sovereign \| procreate \| produce \| quoin \| renew \| renovate \| revolutionize \| roll of coins \| rouleau \| scratch \| shape \| shekels \| shove the queer \| silver \| sovereign \| spawn \| specie \| stamp \| start \| strike out \| suppose \| swerve \| ten-dollar gold piece \| think out \| think up \| twenty-dollar gold piece \| utter \| veer \| vertex \| zag \| zig \| zigzag See Also \| bawbee \| bezant \| bezzant \| byzant \| cent \| centime \| change \| coinage \| create from raw material \| create from raw stuff \| create verbally \| crown \| denier \| dime \| dollar \| doubloon \| ducat \| eagle \| eightpence \| farthing \| fifty-cent piece \| fivepence \| fourpence \| groat \| guinea \| half crown \| half dollar \| half eagle \| halfpenny \| ha'penny \| head \| louis d'or \| Maundy money \| medallion \| metal money \| mintage \| nickel \| ninepence \| obverse \| penny \| piece of eight \| quarter \| real \| reverse \| shilling \| sixpence \| sloganeer \| solidus \| sou \| specie \| stater \| tail \| tanner \| tenpence \| threepence \| tuppence \| twopence \| verso Coin In Webster's Dictionary \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.] \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. \Coin\, v. i. To manufacture counterfeit money. They cannot touch me for coining. --Shak.

Coin Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Coin?

[n] a metal piece (usually a disc) used as money
[v] form by stamping, punching, or printing; "strike coins"; "strike a medal"
[v] of phrases or words

Synonyms | Synonyms for Coin: mint | strike

Coin In Webster's Dictionary

\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.]


\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.


\Coin\, v. i.
To manufacture counterfeit money.

      They cannot touch me for coining.        --Shak.

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