单词 | coining |
释义 | coiningn.1 The action of coin v.1 1. literal. a. The making of coin; minting. ΚΠ c1600 Wriothesley's Chron. Eng. (1877) II. 7 A French man being prisoner..for quoyning of testornes. 1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear xx. 83 They cannot touch mee for coyning, I am the king himselfe. View more context for this quotation 1691 J. Locke Money in Wks. (1727) II. 68 The Coining of Silver, or making Money of it, is the ascertaining of its Quantity by a publick Mark, the better to fit it for Commerce. 1876 G. D. Mathews Coinages of World i. 7 The hammer and die continued to be the only instruments used in coining until the middle of the 16th century. b. Shaping of metal in a coining press (see quot. 1968). ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > coining > [noun] > specific processes > shaping of metal in coin press coining1940 1940 J. D. Jevons Metall. Deep Drawing xv. 561 It is now usual to give the pressed or deep-drawn article one or more final squeezing operations between dies, a process closely akin to that of ‘coining’. 1968 Gloss. Terms Mechanized & Hand Sheet Metal Work (B.S.I.) 6 Coining. 1. A final squeezing operation, with a punch and die, to give accuracy of dimensions. 2. An operation whereby a pattern is impressed by a punch. 2. figurative. Deliberate invention, fabrication. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > linguistic unit > use or formation of new words or phrases > [noun] word-making1553 coininga1680 coinage1693 neoterism1794 neologism1796 neology1797 neologization1820 neonism1829 minting1841 neoterizing1873 the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > inventive or creative faculty > [noun] > operation of conceit1576 creation1604 fiction1605 commentation1652 contrivance1699 conception1771 coining1858 a1680 S. Butler Genuine Remains (1759) II. 123 He was..forced to fall to coining, and was Several Months before he could light on one [Name] that pleased him. 1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 285. ¶13. There are in Milton several Words of his own Coining. 1858 J. Doran Hist. Court Fools 96 The coining of bitter jests. Compounds attributive and in other combinations, as coining-house, coining-irons, coining-stamps. coining press n. (a) a press for making coin (see quot. 16881); (b) a punch press in which metal is pressed to a required size, or embossed, etc. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > coining > [noun] coinagec1380 stroke1449 coining1483 forging1523 minting1548 mintagec1570 society > trade and finance > money > coining > [noun] > tools used in coining > stamping irons or dies ironOE standardc1473 trussellc1473 coining-irons1483 printing iron1525 coin1559 pile1562 matrix1626 hand press1638 coining press1688 coining-stamps1688 matrice1728 coin-stamp1850 hub1851 society > occupation and work > equipment > metalworking equipment > [noun] > stamping machine or press coining press1688 punching press1828 stamp1839 stamping-machine1839 punch press1853 stamping-press1858 drop-hammer1864 drop-press1864 society > trade and finance > money > coining > [noun] > mint mint1429 cunye1489 mint housea1585 coinye-housec1663 coining-house1880 1483 in Attorney-General's Rep. Mint Officers John Shaa, graver of the coining irons of gold and silver within England and Calais. c1529 W. Franklyn Let. in R. Fiddes Life Wolsey (1724) Collect. 209 We must have many moo coyning yrons. 1688 London Gaz. No. 2352/4 One Valentine Cogswell had set up a Coining-Press. 1688 London Gaz. No. 2366/4 Three pair of Coyning Stamps. 1824 ‘R. Stuart’ Descr. Hist. Steam Engine 187 Constructing coining apparatus for the Peruvian mint. a1877 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. I. 592/1 Coining-press, a power lever-screw press by which the planchet of metal is impressed with the design or legend. 1880 J. Mackintosh Hist. Civilization Scotl. II. xix. 337 They came to the Coining-house and gave security. 1925 Jrnl. Iron & Steel Inst. 112 448 The adaptation of the coining-press to the manufacture of such parts as forged arms and levers. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online December 2020). † coiningn.2 Architecture. Corner-work; = quoining n. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > building or providing with specific parts > [noun] > building walls > providing with corner-stones coining1430 coigning1889 1430 J. Lydgate tr. Hist. Troy ii. xi The ryche coyning, the lusty tablementes. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online December 2020). coiningadj. That coins (literal and figurative; see the verb). ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > [adjective] > exercising imagination conceiving1592 imaginous1606 coining1630 representative1814 imaginant1840 visualizing1880 ideoplastic1883 fanciful- society > trade and finance > money > coining > [adjective] coining1757 1630 P. Massinger Picture sig. Ev Some..whose coyning heads Are the mints of all new fashions. 1757 tr. J. G. Keyssler Trav. IV. 199 The coining cities have struck medals. 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