COIN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does coin mean? 

• COIN (noun)
  The noun COIN has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: COIN used as a noun is very rare.

• COIN (verb)
  The verb COIN has 2 senses:

1. make up

2. form by stamping, punching, or printing

  Familiarity information: COIN used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COIN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Hypernyms ("coin" is a kind of...):

coinage; metal money; mintage; specie (coins collectively)

Meronyms (parts of "coin"):

obverse (the side of a coin or medal bearing the principal stamp or design)

tail ((usually plural) the reverse side of a coin that does not bear the representation of a person's head)

reverse; verso (the side of a coin or medal that does not bear the principal design)

head ((usually plural) the obverse side of a coin that usually bears the representation of a person's head)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "coin"):

half eagle (a former gold coin in United States worth 5 dollars)

threepence (former cupronickel coin of the United Kingdom equal to three pennies)

fourpence; groat (a former English silver coin worth four pennies)

fivepence (a coin worth five cents)

sixpence; tanner (a small coin of the United Kingdom worth six pennies; not minted since 1970)

eightpence (a coin worth eight pennies)

ninepence (a coin worth nine pennies)

dollar (a United States coin worth one dollar)

double eagle (a former gold coin in the United States worth 20 dollars)

eagle (a former gold coin in the United States worth 10 dollars)

bawbee (an old Scottish coin of little value)

guinea (a former British gold coin worth 21 shillings)

farthing (a former British bronze coin worth a quarter of a penny)

doubloon (a former Spanish gold coin)

louis d'or (a former French gold coin)

medallion (any of various large ancient Greek coins)

stater (any of the various silver or gold coins of ancient Greece)

sou (a former French coin of low denomination; often used of any small amount of money)

Maundy money (specially minted silver coins that are distributed by the British sovereign on Maundy Thursday)

tenpence (a decimal coin worth ten pennies)

change (coins of small denomination regarded collectively)

bezant; bezzant; byzant; solidus (a gold coin of the Byzantine Empire; widely circulated in Europe in the Middle Ages)

denier (any of various former European coins of different denominations)

ducat (formerly a gold coin of various European countries)

real (an old small silver Spanish coin)

piece of eight (an old silver Spanish coin; worth 8 reales)

shilling (an English coin worth one twentieth of a pound)

crown (an English coin worth 5 shillings)

half crown (an English coin worth half a crown)

dime (a United States coin worth one tenth of a dollar)

nickel (a United States coin worth one twentieth of a dollar)

quarter (a United States or Canadian coin worth one fourth of a dollar)

fifty-cent piece; half dollar (a United States coin worth half of a dollar)

ha'penny; halfpenny (an English coin worth half a penny)

cent; centime; penny (a coin worth one-hundredth of the value of the basic unit)

slug (a counterfeit coin)

tuppence; twopence (a former United Kingdom silver coin; United Kingdom bronze decimal coin worth two pennies)

Derivation:

coin (form by stamping, punching, or printing)

• COIN (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they coin    ... he / she / it coins   
Past simple: coined   
Past participle: coined   
-ing form: coining   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make up

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Context example:

coin phrases or words

Hypernyms (to "coin" is one way to...):

create verbally (create with or from words)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "coin"):

sloganeer (coin new slogans)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

coinage (the act of inventing a word or phrase)

coinage (a newly invented word or phrase)

coiner (someone who is a source of new words or new expressions)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Form by stamping, punching, or printing

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Synonyms:

coin; mint; strike

Context example:

strike a medal

Hypernyms (to "coin" is one way to...):

create from raw material; create from raw stuff (make from scratch)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

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

coiner (a skilled worker who coins or stamps money)

coiner (a maker of counterfeit coins)

 Context examples 

He locked the door lest the ladies should surprise him and insist upon knowing what he was doing with these names and coins.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And when the full moon had risen, Hansel took his little sister by the hand, and followed the pebbles which shone like newly-coined silver pieces, and showed them the way.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

When, in addition, I see a Chinese coin hanging from your watch-chain, the matter becomes even more simple.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Several discs of metal, old coins apparently, such as I hold here, were scattered over the bottom of the box, but it contained nothing else.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

If you work on a commission or royalty basis (or any other kind of performance-basis), you will start to do much better, and the money will flow in like gold coins from heaven.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

It stood for success, and the eagles stamped upon the coins were to him so many winged victories.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

There were six Spanish pieces of four pistoles each, beside twenty or thirty smaller coins.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

This phenomenon was first described in 1978 by robotics professor Masahiro Mori, who coined an expression in Japanese that went on to be translated as the ‘Uncanny Valley’.

(Scientists identify possible source of the ‘Uncanny Valley’ in the brain, University of Cambridge)

They can choke on foods like hot dogs, nuts and grapes, and on small objects like toy pieces and coins.

(Choking, NIH)

I stood in the position of one without a resource, without a friend, without a coin.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)