Definitions for COINkɔɪn

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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

coinkɔɪn(n.)

  1. a piece of metal stamped and issued by the authority of a government for use as money.

  2. a number of such pieces.

  3. Informal. money; cash.

    Category: Common Vocabulary, Informal

  4. Category: Architecture

    Ref: quoin (defs. 1, 2). 1 2

  5. (adj.)operated by or containing machines operated by the insertion of a coin or coins.

    Category: Common Vocabulary

  6. (v.t.)to make (coins) by stamping metal.

  7. to convert (metal) into money.

  8. to invent; fabricate:

    to coin an expression.

Idioms for coin:

  1. pay someone back in his or her own coin,to retaliate against someone by using the person's own methods.

    Category: Idiom

Origin of coin:

1300–50; ME coyn(e),coygne < AF; MF coin, wedge, corner, die < L cuneus wedge

coin′er(n.)

Princeton's WordNet

  1. coin(verb)

    a flat metal piece (usually a disc) used as money

  2. coin(verb)

    make up

    "coin phrases or words"

  3. mint, coin, strike(verb)

    form by stamping, punching, or printing

    "strike coins"; "strike a medal"

Kernerman English Learner's Dictionary

  1. coin(noun)ɔɪn

    a circular piece of metal money

    to collect coins from around the world

  2. coinɔɪn

    to throw a coin to decide between two things

    Don't argue about it - just flip a coin.

  3. coin(verb)ɔɪn

    (of word or phrase ) to be the first ever to use it

    an expression coined in the 1920s

Wiktionary

  1. coin(Noun)

    A piece of currency, usually metallic and in the shape of a disc, but sometimes polygonal, or with a hole in the middle.

  2. coin(Noun)

    A token used in a special establishment like a casino (also called a chip).

  3. coin(Noun)

    One of the suits of minor arcana in tarot, or a card of that suit.

  4. coin(Verb)

    to create coins.

  5. coin(Verb)

    to make up or invent, and establish

    Over the last century the advance in science has led to many new words being coined.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Coin(noun)

    a quoin; a corner or external angle; a wedge. See Coigne, and Quoin

  2. Coin(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

  3. Coin(noun)

    that which serves for payment or recompense

  4. Coin(verb)

    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

  5. Coin(verb)

    to make or fabricate; to invent; to originate; as, to coin a word

  6. Coin(verb)

    to acquire rapidly, as money; to make

  7. Coin(verb)

    to manufacture counterfeit money


Translations for COIN

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

coin(verb)

to make metal into (money)

The new country soon started to coin its own money.

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