coin
IPA: kˈɔɪn
noun
- (money) A piece of currency, usually metallic and in the shape of a disc, but sometimes polygonal, or with a hole in the middle.
- A token used in a special establishment like a casino.
- (figurative) That which serves for payment or recompense.
- (uncountable, figurative) Something in broad circulation or use.
- (uncountable, slang, UK, US, African-American Vernacular) Money in general, not limited to coins.
- (card games) One of the suits of minor arcana in tarot, or a card of that suit.
- A corner or external angle.
- A small circular slice of food.
- (informal, cryptocurrencies) A cryptocurrency; a cryptocoin.
- A city in Iowa, United States.
- An unincorporated community in Kentucky, United States.
- A surname.
- A surname from French.
- A surname from Irish.; Alternative form of Coyne
- (US, military) Abbreviation of counterinsurgency. [Any political or military action taken to defeat insurgency, especially during guerrilla warfare.]
verb
- To make of a definite fineness, and convert into coins, as a mass of metal.
- (by extension) To make or fabricate (especially a word or phrase).
- To acquire rapidly, as money; to make.
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Examples of "coin" in Sentences
- I am a coin gatherer.
- The coin was customarily a drachma.
- A collector collects valuable coins.
- The coins of Augustus are ubiquitous.
- Coins are both fungible and tradeable.
- Such coins are known as 'largesse' coins.
- It is also embossed on the edge of the dollar coin.
- This coin is actually rarer than its gold counterpart.
- Each coin bears the mintmark of the Mint producing the coin.
- The Lincoln cent is the current one cent coin of the US Dollar.
- The 20 Franc coin is the most common, and it is popular as a bullion coin.
- In many civilizations debasing a coin is a very serious offense and punishable by death.
- While it has been lightly dipped and lightly cleaned, the overall look of the coin is appealing.
- The new Qin coin is inscribed simply with its weight, expressed in two Chinese characters ban liang.
- I will admit that the coin is a bit busy for being the back of a quarter, but the Grizzly catching the fish is awesome.
- The Israel Antiquities Authority says the coin is the heaviest and has the highest contemporary value of any coin ever found in an excavation in Israel.
- Another side of the coin is the irony of a officer employed by a (even-if-uncharged) DNA-collecting organisation, wanting privacy. on June 17, 2009 at 9: 22 pm inspectorgadget
- Even so, if a coin is artificially toned, it will, in most cases, have the same metallic composition, especially including trace metals, as it did before it was artificially toned.
- As ruthless hunters search for the stolen artifact, Gray Pierce discovers that the coin is the key to unlocking a plot that dates back to the Cold War and threatens the very foundation of humanity.
- United States and England being the two great commercial and gold producing nations, speaking the same tongue, and having the same coinage, would make the coin and the _language of the coin_ of the world the same, the first great step toward a universal language.
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