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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The Boston Tea Party helped popularize coffee in America. The hefty tea tax imposed on the colonies in 1773 resulted in America switching from tea to coffee. In the lead up to the Revolutionary War, it became patriotic to sip java instead of tea. The Civil War made the drink more pervasive. Coffee helped energize tired troops, and drinking it became an expression of freedom.

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