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COIN
coin
(noun) a flat metal piece (usually a disc) used as money
mint, coin, strike
(verb) form by stamping, punching, or printing; “strike coins”; “strike a medal”
coin
(verb) make up; “coin phrases or words”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Proper noun
Coin
A city in Iowa.
An unincorporated community in Kentucky.
Anagrams
• ICON, Nico, cion, coni, icon
Etymology
Noun
coin (countable and uncountable, plural coins)
(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.
Synonym: chip
(figurative) That which serves for payment or recompense.
(uncountable, slang, US, African-American Vernacular) Money in general, not limited to coins.
Synonyms: money, Thesaurus:money
(card games) One of the suits of minor arcana in tarot, or a card of that suit.
A corner or external angle.
Synonyms: wedge, quoin
A small circular slice of food.
(informal) A cryptocurrency.
Verb
coin (third-person singular simple present coins, present participle coining, simple past and past participle coined)
To make of a definite fineness, and convert into coins, as a mass of metal.
Synonyms: mint, manufacture
(by extension) To make or fabricate.
Synonyms: invent, originate
To acquire rapidly, as money; to make.
Anagrams
• ICON, Nico, cion, coni, icon
Noun
COIN (uncountable)
(US, military) Abbreviation of counterinsurgency.
Anagrams
• ICON, Nico, cion, coni, icon
Source: Wiktionary
Coin (koin), n. Etym: [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 wegde. 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.
Definition: To manufacture counterfeit money. They cannot touch me for coining. Shak.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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