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If you coin a phrase, that means you come up with a new way to say something, like the person who coined "webizens" to describe people who constantly use the Internet.

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A quoin; a corner or external angle; a wegde. See Coigne, and Quoin.

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

Verb
form by stamping, punching, or printing; "strike coins"; "strike a medal"

Verb
of phrases or words


n.
A quoin; a corner or external angle; a wedge. See Coigne, and Quoin.

n.
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.

n.
That which serves for payment or recompense.

v. t.
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.

v. t.
To make or fabricate; to invent; to originate; as, to coin a word.

v. t.
To acquire rapidly, as money; to make.

v. i.
To manufacture counterfeit money.


Coin

Coin (koin), n. [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.
3. That which serves for payment or recompense.
The loss of present advantage to flesh and blood is repaid in a nobler coin.
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

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.
3. To acquire rapidly, as money; to make.
Tenants cannot coin rent just at quarter day.

Coin

Coin, v. i. To manufacture counterfeit money.
They cannot touch me for coining.

A quoin; a corner or external angle; a wegde. See Coigne, and Quoin.

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.

To manufacture counterfeit money.

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Usage Examples

Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.

Editing yourself is like an irksome coin toss. You've got to strip yourself of super ego and operate from the id. Maybe I've got my Freud mixed up. It's just hard to trade a beauty shot for the performance with truth and a brightly lit zit.

Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument.

Fixing health care and fixing the economy are two sides of the same coin.

Humor is the ability to see three sides to one coin.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

Doctors coin money when they do procedures but family medicine doesn't have any procedures.

We coin concepts and we use them to analyse and explain nature and society. But we seem to forget, midway, that these concepts are our own constructs and start equating them with reality.

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

There's a nastiness out there that wants to harm me with words. These are my enemies - the ideologues, the populists, the columnists who don't like the fact that I take them on toe-to-toe. What I try to do is tell the truth. It's not the coin of the realm in politics.

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