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COIN

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Hypernyms ("coin" is a kind of...):

coinage; metal money; mintage; specie (coins collectively)

Meronyms (parts of "coin"):

tail ((usually plural) the reverse side of a coin that does not bear the representation of a person's head)

reverse; verso (the side of a coin or medal that does not bear the principal design)

obverse (the side of a coin or medal bearing the principal stamp or design)

head ((usually plural) the obverse side of a coin that usually bears the representation of a person's head)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "coin"):

threepence (former cupronickel coin of the United Kingdom equal to three pennies)

fourpence; groat (a former English silver coin worth four pennies)

fivepence (a coin worth five cents)

sixpence; tanner (a small coin of the United Kingdom worth six pennies; not minted since 1970)

eightpence (a coin worth eight pennies)

ninepence (a coin worth nine pennies)

dollar (a United States coin worth one dollar)

double eagle (a former gold coin in the United States worth 20 dollars)

eagle (a former gold coin in the United States worth 10 dollars)

half eagle (a former gold coin in United States worth 5 dollars)

guinea (a former British gold coin worth 21 shillings)

farthing (a former British bronze coin worth a quarter of a penny)

doubloon (a former Spanish gold coin)

louis d'or (a former French gold coin)

medallion (any of various large ancient Greek coins)

stater (any of the various silver or gold coins of ancient Greece)

sou (a former French coin of low denomination; often used of any small amount of money)

Maundy money (specially minted silver coins that are distributed by the British sovereign on Maundy Thursday)

change (coins of small denomination regarded collectively)

bawbee (an old Scottish coin of little value)

bezant; bezzant; byzant; solidus (a gold coin of the Byzantine Empire; widely circulated in Europe in the Middle Ages)

denier (any of various former European coins of different denominations)

ducat (formerly a gold coin of various European countries)

real (an old small silver Spanish coin)

piece of eight (an old silver Spanish coin; worth 8 reales)

shilling (an English coin worth one twentieth of a pound)

crown (an English coin worth 5 shillings)

half crown (an English coin worth half a crown)

dime (a United States coin worth one tenth of a dollar)

nickel (a United States coin worth one twentieth of a dollar)

quarter (a United States or Canadian coin worth one fourth of a dollar)

fifty-cent piece; half dollar (a United States coin worth half of a dollar)

ha'penny; halfpenny (an English coin worth half a penny)

cent; centime; penny (a coin worth one-hundredth of the value of the basic unit)

slug (a counterfeit coin)

tenpence (a decimal coin worth ten pennies)

tuppence; twopence (a former United Kingdom silver coin; United Kingdom bronze decimal coin worth two pennies)

Derivation:

coin (form by stamping, punching, or printing)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Form by stamping, punching, or printing

Example:

strike a medal

Synonyms:

coin; mint; strike

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Hypernyms (to "coin" is one way to...):

create from raw material; create from raw stuff (make from scratch)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

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

coiner (a skilled worker who coins or stamps money)

coiner (a maker of counterfeit coins)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Make up

Example:

coin phrases or words

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Hypernyms (to "coin" is one way to...):

create verbally (create with or from words)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "coin"):

sloganeer (coin new slogans)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

coinage (the act of inventing a word or phrase)

coinage (a newly invented word or phrase)

coiner (someone who is a source of new words or new expressions)

Credits

 Context examples: 

Before a big fire lay Captain Smollett; and in a far corner, only duskily flickered over by the blaze, I beheld great heaps of coin and quadrilaterals built of bars of gold.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

"And furthermore," the son went on, "for every chicken he kills, I'll pay you one dollar gold coin of the realm."

(White Fang, by Jack London)

On his lap he had a little pile of gold and of silver, which he was dropping, coin by coin, into a plump pouch which hung from his girdle.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Such a basis fundamentally limits the size of spectrometers in respect: they are usually bulky and complex, and challenging to shrink to sizes much smaller than a coin.

(Nanowires replace Newton’s famous glass prism, University of Cambridge)

When we got outside the door, Peggotty informed me that Mr. Barkis, being now a little nearer than he used to be, always resorted to this same device before producing a single coin from his store; and that he endured unheard-of agonies in crawling out of bed alone, and taking it from that unlucky box.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

It was lined with books, and there were pictures and statues, and distracting little cabinets full of coins and curiosities, and Sleepy Hollow chairs, and queer tables, and bronzes, and best of all, a great open fireplace with quaint tiles all round it.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

An interview with a surly gatekeeper and a surlier foreman, both of whom were appeased with the coin of the realm, put me on the track of Bloxam; he was sent for on my suggesting that I was willing to pay his day's wages to his foreman for the privilege of asking him a few questions on a private matter.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I had one morsel of bread yet: the remnant of a roll I had bought in a town we passed through at noon with a stray penny—my last coin.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Leave fame and coin alone, sign away on a ship to-morrow, and go back to your sea.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

He had cut through a bulkhead unobserved and had removed one of the sacks of coin, worth perhaps three or four hundred guineas, to help him on his further wanderings.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)