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Coin

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Noun

1. coin

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

Verb

2. coin

make up

Example Sentences:
'coin phrases or words'

3. coin, mint, strike

form by stamping, punching, or printing

Example Sentences:
'strike coins'
'strike a medal'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Coin

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noun
1. 
a metal disc or piece used as money
2. 
metal currency, as opposed to securities, paper currency, etc
▶ Related adjective: nummary
3. architecture a variant spelling of quoin
4.  pay someone back in his or her own coin
5.  the other side of the coin
verb
6. (transitive)
to make or stamp (coins)
7. (transitive)
to make into a coin
8. (transitive)
to fabricate or invent (words, etc)
9. (transitive) informal
to make (money) rapidly (esp in the phrase coin it in)
10.  to coin a phrase

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Coin

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noun
1.  Archaic
quoin
2. 
a. 
a usually round piece of metal with a distinctive stamp, and of a fixed value and weight, issued by a government as money
b. 
such pieces collectively
3.  Slang
money
adjective
4. 
requiring, or containing machines requiring, one or more coins for operation
a coin laundry
verb transitive
5. 
a. 
to make (coins) by stamping metal
b. 
to make (metal) into coins
6. 
to make up; devise; invent (a new word or phrase)
verb intransitive
7. 
to make coins
8.  British
to make counterfeit money

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Coin

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n.
1. A small piece of metal, usually flat and circular, authorized by a government for use as money.
2. Metal money considered as a whole.
3. A flat circular piece or object felt to resemble metal money: a pizza topped with coins of pepperoni.
4. A mode of expression considered standard: Two-word verbs are valid linguistic coin in the 20th century.
5. Variant of quoin.
tr.v. coined, coin·ing, coins
1. To make (pieces of money) from metal; mint or strike: coined silver dollars.
2. To make pieces of money from (metal): coin gold.
3. To devise (a new word or phrase).
adj.
Requiring one or more pieces of metal money for operation: a coin washing machine.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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