coin
(kɔɪn )
Word forms: coins , coining , coined
1. countable noun B1
A coin is a small piece of metal which is used as money.
...50 pence coins.
...Frederick's gold coin collection.
Synonyms: money, change, cash, silver
2. verb
If you coin a word or a phrase, you are the first person to say it.
Jaron Lanier coined the term 'virtual reality' and pioneered its early development. [VERB noun]
3. verb [usually cont]
If you say that someone is coining it or is coining money, you are emphasizing that they are making a lot of money very quickly, often without really earning it. [informal, emphasis]
Many private colleges are coining it. [VERB it]
One wine shop is coining money selling Wembley-label champagne. [VERB noun]
Coining in means the same as coining.
4. to coin a phrase phrase
You say 'to coin a phrase' to show that you realize you are making a pun or using a cliché.
Fifty local musicians have, to coin a phrase, banded together to form the Jazz Umbrella.
5. the other side of the coin phrase
You use the other side of the coin to mention a different aspect of a situation.
Low pay is the other side of the coin of falling unemployment.
6. two sides of the same coin phrase [usually verb-link PHRASE]
If you say that two things are two sides of the same coin, you mean that they are different ways of looking at or dealing with the same situation.
Economic and political reforms are two sides of the same coin.
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Idioms:
pay someone back in their own coin
to treat someone in exactly the same, bad way that they have treated you
We need to tell them that if they don't actually cease their attacks they could face the prospect of being paid back in their own coin.
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the other side of the coin
the other, very different, aspect of a situation
Of course, I get lonely at times. But the other side of the coin is the amazing freedom I have.
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to coin a phrase
said when you are making a pun or using a clichÈ or colloquial expression, in order to show that you realize people might think that it is a silly or boring thing to say, but you think it is relevant in spite of this
Stunned Jackson was, to coin a phrase, `sick as a parrot'.
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two sides of the same coin or opposite sides of the same coin
two opposite aspects of the same situation or idea
He says he draws no line between tragedy and comedy. `I've always felt that they are inseparable, that they are two sides of the same coin.'
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Collocations:
antique coin chocolate coin coin a name coin a term coin a word coin collection coin collector coin dealer coin jar coin purse coin slot collect coins commemorative coin copper coin dollar coin drop a coin euro coin gold coin golden coin insert a coin issue a coin mint a coin rare coin silver coin throw a coin valuable coin
They bring their wedding rings and antique coins and walk out with cash, hoping to return on a brighter day to buy back their stuff.
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As well as antique coins, furniture and various objects that belonged to its creator.
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He concerned himself with numismatics since the 1960s, paying special attention to antique coins.
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The market for coins expanded to include not only antique coins, but foreign or otherwise exotic currency.
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They were given a tote bag with branded gifts, including a fridge magnet, chocolate coin, special shortbread and a programme.
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The bags contained a commemorative chocolate coin, bottled water, a fridge magnet, an official order of service and a tub of shortbread.
The Sun
Remind yourself regularly that chocolate coins are for decoration.
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Soon we come across branches dripping money bags full of chocolate coins.
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Among gifts received on his behalf by his grandfather were a leather flying jacket, some chocolate coins and a plastic toy camel.
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Optometrists have even coined a name for the complaint: coronavision.
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It was his academic advisers who rescued the theory from the dustbin of history and coined the name.
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Somebody coined a name for it once.
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He coined the names of the phot and the stilb around 1920.
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Town coined the name of the group, which was based simply on the number of artists that were present the first meeting.
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For the effective use of a weird wedding to illuminate a weird society, it must rank among the best nup doc (let me coin the term) ever.
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His name helped coin the term 'superhero'.
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It was this approach that led him to coin the term 'interaction design' in the mid-1980s.
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I suggest we coin the term 'civic criminality' to describe this kind of money-grabbing behaviour, with a view to embarrassing our leaders until they do something about it.
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He was the first to coin the term supernova during his fostering the concept of neutron stars.
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But even that felt wrong, to coin a word.
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You don't coin a word when you take over an already existing word, even if you alter the meaning to a greater or lesser extent.
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He invented the iris diaphragm in cameras, the balance wheel in watches, and coined the word 'cell'.
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Globalisation existed in the weather long before an economist coined the word.
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He has coined the word 'appropriacy'.
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More than a quarter of a million dollars was spent on a rare coin collection.
Times, Sunday Times
The thieves had to go up a floor and move around the building to reach the coin collection on the western side of the museum.
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They convinced the museum's board to purchase the artifact for $1 million, which the museum funded through the sale of its coin collection.
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During this period he served as secretary for the local historical society and curated its coin collection.
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Against the other walls of the room are cases that display a rare coin collection arranged chronologically.
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I was a keen coin collector and exchanged anything which had numismatic value for a modern coin of the same value.
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A furniture-maker and coin collector from his schooldays, he combined these interests into a career as the creator of specialist numismatic cabinets of exceptional quality.
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He was also a book and coin collector.
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The coin collector first separates his coins into lists, one for each denomination, sorted by numismatic value.
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He was indefatigable as a tourist in his earlier days and later as a coin collector.
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They are not some small corner shop, but serious, important coin dealers.
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Experienced coin dealers will generally detect such fakes immediately as they are obviously underweight or have incorrect size or thickness dimensions.
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Coin dealers and the public who got this coin hoarded it and it never came into circulation.
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Collectors complained that some of the issues were controlled by coin dealers, and individual collectors had to pay high prices.
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The second group are the coin dealers.
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It can be as realistic as you like with price tags and money from a coin jar.
The Sun
I tucked it under his coin jar along with a pile of pennies as restitution.
Christianity Today
Some people even store this loose change in a digital coin jar, which keeps count of the cash deposited.
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What could possibly go wrong with putting pixie dust-filled capsules in your coin purse?
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With blood found on his stockings and coin purse, this conspirator was also arrested.
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Counting his saucers, the old man reaches into his coin purse and pays for the drinks, leaving a tip.
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Bills are held flat, and long wallets typically have a coin purse.
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Debit cards, credit cards, bus pass, coins: leave that overloaded wallet at home and invest your pennies in one of these cute, diddy coin purses.
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The coin slot wasn't much interested in my efforts to activate it either.
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Lips that look a bit like a mouth, or, impossibly, after 'pillow-like parts', a coin slot.
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He goes over a coin slot, ends up stuttered in a hamburger, putting some spicy chilli sauce.
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She set up a metal box with a coin slot at home and family members contributed spare change until the box was full.
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After depositing the macaroni into the coin slot, she reaches her hand into the machine to get her soda, only for her hand to get trapped inside.
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Collect coins — or buy them with real money — to upgrade your vehicles, buy new cars and open extra levels.
The Sun
When you sign up, you adopt an animated penguin to chat to friends, play games, explore, collect coins and even personalise your very own igloo.
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You travel between floors using floating bubbles, while you can fall through holes in the floor and collect coins on your merry way.
The Sun
They collect coins, watches, bits of metal, tools and jewellery.
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It's fun because every few pages you collect coins to be spent on cool extras.
The Sun
Before two-baht coin entered to the circulation, it has been used as commemorative coin since 1979.
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In celebration of its centennial, in 2006, the gate has been chosen as the main motif for this commemorative coin issue.
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In 2012, the third eurozone-wide issue of a 2-euro commemorative coin was issued, celebrating 10 years of euro coins and notes.
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Further regulations restrict the frequency and number of commemorative coin issues.
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Congress authorized a commemorative coin to fund the purchase of the site.
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Bury them next to a southern wall with a mint, silver, ancient, and copper coin each.
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After 1140 the circulation of the copper coin romesina stopped and it was replaced by the follaris.
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This copper coin was legal tender to one peso fuerte.
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From 1793 to 1857, the cent was a copper coin about the size of a half dollar.
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But a large quantity of debased copper coin also circulated.
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In 1985, 20 dollar notes were introduced, whilst, in 1993, a 10 dollar coin was introduced and the banks stopped issuing 10 dollar notes.
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He also declared the trillion dollar coin debate to be the most important fiscal policy debate of our lifetimes.
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There have been various issued by banks which were phased out with the introduction of the ten dollar coin in 1994.
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It was issued in 1975, and thus became the highest denomination coin until the five dollar coin was introduced the next year.
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In early 2013, he was a prominent supporter of a potential trillion dollar coin, although by late 2013 he had changed his mind.
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I'm one of those folks, like most of us, who will drop a coin into the tin cup and, on another day, cross the road.
The Sun
You drop a coin, take the key and move on.
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She dropped a coin and as we both went to pick it up we clashed heads.
The Sun
Distinguishing between the bronze and copper cents and the newer, zinc cents can be done by dropping the coin on a solid surface.
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After he finished his coffee and found himself unable to pay for it, a nearby man dropped a coin from his jacket sleeve.
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It even graces the back of some two euro coins.
The Sun
The bonneted youth, galvanized by the patron's shouted order, fished in his pockets and produced three euro coins and a swirl of centimes, laboriously counted out.
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Each set also had 500 francs in euro coins.
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Most coins closely resemble the size and shape of various euro coins.
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The outer ring portrays 12 stars, a design motif characteristic of euro coins.
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It was a 1oz gold coin worth 1,300.
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For starters, it forced the emergence of the alphabet, then there was the first gold coin - another popular invention.
The Sun
However, for every knockout gold coin they find, experienced detectorists unearth hundreds of fascinating but lowvalue items such as worn bronze coins, buckles and buttons.
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Someone had probably told her she couldn't eat the gold coin.
The Sun
Today they are happy; they will give you a gold coin.
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The 5 florin was later on in 2005 replaced with a round golden coin.
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The churchmen were paid four times a year and also personally given a golden coin for their trouble.
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Officials were reportedly told last month to treat the number of penalties awarded like 11 golden coins - to be spent wisely.
The Sun
Breakfast begins with the taking of the 'golden coins', or pollen, from my own bees.
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Back in the olden days, on certain days of the year, the rich/ beautiful/privileged used to chuck golden coins from their carriages for the unwashed to scrabble about for.
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You insert your coin and take hold of a mallet.
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The figures have usually a small money box inside and a slot in the chest for inserting a coin.
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The character can be revived in place with full health by spending a game credit (i.e. inserting a coin) within a certain short time window after it died.
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The user of a post-pay pay phone would dial first, wait until the called party answered, and at that point the user would be prompted to insert the coins.
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Not only has there been a rapid increase in the number of commemorative coins issued.
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The largest two-storied vault hosted the banknotes and silver coins issued between 1863 and 1914 together with the story, design, registration and samples of each.
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The following are the commemorative coins issued on various occasions.
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The gold coinage practically ceased, with only small numbers of 5 and 10 piastre coins issued.
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Its kings are in some cases known only from the coins issued during their reigns.
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In the 3,000 years since, the authorities who mint coins and print banknotes have engaged in ceaseless efforts to thwart forgers.
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Between them, they were responsible for founding cities, setting up a government, improving the legal system and education, reviving a language, minting coins and encouraging trade.
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The elevation included the right to mint coins bearing the effigy of the prince.
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In 465, permission was granted for the people to mint coins.
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The city minted coins in antiquity, some of which survive today.
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More than a quarter of a million dollars was spent on a rare coin collection.
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Most notably, a rare coin investment fund has attracted particular scrutiny after it was reported that two coins worth more than $300,000 had been lost.
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This was a very rare coin, almost a trial piece, but it did circulate so successfully that demand could not be met.
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Against the other walls of the room are cases that display a rare coin collection arranged chronologically.
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Classic cars accounted for the highest share of wealth, followed by jewellery, precious metals, fine art and rare coins.
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The route of labyrinth can be seen and traced on this 2,400-year-old silver coin.
The Sun
Four different coins are offered, from a $5 nickel-copper half dollar to a five-ounce proof silver coin for $50.
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Commemorative coins, including a 5 crown to mark last year's royal birth and the first 20 silver coin to be minted, contributed earnings of 9.3 million.
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The batzen was originally a silver coin, but by the 17th century it was struck in billon.
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As with all collectible coins, many factors determine the value of a silver coin, such as its rarity, demand, condition and the number originally minted.
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They throw a coin in their box and carry on.
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It would be almost impossible to throw a coin a hundred times and observe no long sequences at all.
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Even hardened cynics find themselves following the legend which says if you throw a coin in the water, you'll soon return.
The Sun
And even dafter to throw a coin back into the crowd.
The Sun
Had a fan thrown a coin from the stand?
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Luck finds a rare, valuable coin among some loose change.
The Sun
But there could be instant luck, too, when you discover a rare and valuable coin.
The Sun
It was either money or a valuable coin or token given to bind a bargain, notably for the purchase or hiring of a servant.
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Completing puzzles earns players score-affecting bronze, silver or gold medals along with valuable coins with which trips to new unexplored continents can be purchased.
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Translations:
Chinese: 硬币, 创造新词语
Japanese: 硬貨, 作り出す新しい言葉を
- half-baked
- half-baked idea
- half board
- half-board
- half-brother
- half-caste
- half-day
- half day
- half-empty bottle
- half expect
- half-hearted
- halfhearted
- half-hearted apology
- half-hearted attempt
- half-heartedly
- halfheartedly
- half-hour
- half-life
- half life
- half-mast
- half measure
- half-measure
- half note
- half past
- halfpenny