coin1 nouncoin2 verb
coincoin1 /kɔɪn/ ●●● S3 noun 
WORD ORIGINcoin1
Origin:
1300-1400 Old French ‘three-sided piece, corner’, from Latin cuneus; ➔ CUNEIFORMEXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- I used to collect coins when I was a kid.
- The word "yuppie" is a coinage of the 1960s which found a new fame in the 1980s.
- A couple of coins landed on the frosty road.
- At the last moment the U.K. managed to push through an optional exemption of archaeological goods such as coins.
- Impressed by their studiousness, we carefully counted out some coins, making sure each boy got the same amount.
- The depictions on paper money and coins reinforce national icons and symbols.
- The driver counts the coins into his tin.
- The range of denominations A second way of looking at coins is to examine the denominations in which they were made.
THESAURUS
what you use to buy things, in the form of notes or coins: · He spent all his money on computer equipment.
money in the form of coins and notes: · I didn’t have any cash with me.
the money used in a particular country: · The dollar gained in value against other currencies.· a single European currency
money in the form of coins of low value: · Do you have any small change?· a pocketful of loose change
British English, bill American English a piece of paper money: · a £20 note· a $5 bill
a flat round piece of metal used as money: · She put some coins in the parking meter.· He took a coin out of his pocket.
a coin worth a particular amount
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
We flipped a coin to see who would go first. In the end the decision was made by the flip of a coin. They tossed a coin to decide who would go first. The toss of a coin decided who would go first.COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
· an impressive Roman coin collection
We flipped a coin to see who would go first. In the end the decision was made by the flip of a coin. (=invent it)· Funk coined the term ‘vitamin’ in 1912.
They tossed a coin to decide who would go first. The toss of a coin decided who would go first.· He had felt them - round swelling lumps the size of gold coins.· Investigators raid a house looking for missing gold coins and platinum bars.· I paid in gold coins and got change in jewels, amethysts in gold mounts.· He sat on the market until it puked gold coins.· The coins are still the most widely traded gold bullion coin on the world's secondary bullion market.· As he is about to bury the gold coins, his imbecile brother Jacob appears, pitchfork in hand.· Sales of gold coins are soaring.· The wizard uncurled his stinging fist and the roll of gold coins slipped between his throbbing fingers.
· The Roman coins showed the head and inscription of the Emperor.· Many people spend years detecting without ever finding Roman coins.· Research Please can you identify this Roman coin for me?· I issue a monthly list, with the main emphasis on Roman coins.· In his bedroom he had a collection of Roman coins.· Finds of Roman coins and pottery within the graveyard may indicate a similar relationship.· Coins date: Roman coins unearthed in Malton will go on show at the town's museum from April 18.· This is by far the largest cache of Roman coins to be uncovered in Britain since the eighteenth century.
· She opened her hand and looked at the two silver coins.· They also found my comb, a purse with several gold and silver coins, my gun and bullets.· The beady, little eyes softened as Cranston displayed his warrant, a silver coin lying on top of it.· She took two silver coins out of the tin then put it where it could only be found by her.· Coaches of silver spoons, coins and other treasures will be displayed to complement the Civil War exhibition.· Mandeville fished in his purse and brought out a silver coin, rolling it in his fingers.· More silver coins than any of us would find in a lifetime, all into the melting-pot.· Both rely on something lost being found, a sheep in the first parable and a silver coin in the second.
NOUN· She bought six first-class stamps, took a pound coin from her purse and went into the automatic photo booth.· Cut into four pieces and roll each one to the thickness of a pound coin.· He inserted a pound coin, pushed the button - and nothing emerged.· Nevertheless, one pound coins are still lost at a rate of tens of thousands per year.· George moved to stand on my foot just as Katy discovered a pound coin and Christopher yelled it was his.· And approaching that very machine, his last pound coin clutched in his fist, was Felix Henderson McMurdo.· He had a couple of ten pound coins, barely enough for a cup of tea.
· I accept the coin purse, which is warm from her hand.
VERB· Mostly we collected coins, but there were an awful lot of them.· The task is to collect coins and to tip up the tortoises and spiders that crawl out of the pipes along the platforms.· He collected up the coins and put them back into his trouser pocket.
· The driver counts the coins into his tin.· He took it and laughed as he counted the few coins.· Impressed by their studiousness, we carefully counted out some coins, making sure each boy got the same amount.· The bus stopped at the traffic lights and I could see him counting his £1 coins.· We blunted our fingers counting coins in those days.
· To date a coin or an artifact is not the same thing as to date the context in which it is found.· Although dating and attributing coins to mints require different methods, the preliminary step is the same in both cases.
· One is that, on the second occasion, you drop the coin on the floor.· We listened, and dropped coins.· She dropped a one-pound coin on the table to pay for the smashed saucer.· Carradine dropped a few coins - ducats, I think - into the puddle and waved the woman away.· If a cure was achieved then patients were permitted to drop gold or silver coins into the sacred spring.
· I found some coins and gave them to him, surprised by the formality of his thanks.· In the left-hand pocket he found two tarnished coins of a kind he'd never seen before.· Many people spend years detecting without ever finding Roman coins.· If they found the coins they might put two and two together.· He fished in his pocket until he found a coin.· I went cheerfully through, finding the coins as I went.· More usefully, I found coins and notes on the dressing-table, and pocketed them.
· Given those odds, claims Salsburg, one might as well flip a coin.· The customer wanted to flip a coin about paying the price for a photo of his daughter.· If memory serves, we actually went into the hall and flipped a coin.· Eddie DeBartolo and Carmen Policy: Flip a coin.
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY► the other/opposite side of the coin
1- We like to get out a map, and flip a coin to decide where to go.
- Eddie DeBartolo and Carmen Policy: Flip a coin.
- Given those odds, claims Salsburg, one might as well flip a coin.
- I tossed a coin with Bill Wall for this, and won.
- If memory serves, we actually went into the hall and flipped a coin.
- Like tossing a coin to decide on a man's life.
- The customer wanted to flip a coin about paying the price for a photo of his daughter.
- Torn between passing the letter to Alice or Amelia, Robert tossed a coin and settled on the latter.
- Kohl later said that German unity and European integration were "two sides of the same coin."
[countable] a piece of metal, usually flat and round, that is used as money► see thesaurus at money2toss/flip a coin to choose or decide something by throwing a coin into the air and guessing which side of it will show when it falls: Toss a coin to see who goes first.3the other/opposite side of the coin a different or opposite way of thinking about something: Making the rules is only part of it. How the rules are carried out is the other side of the coin.4two sides of the same coin two problems or situations that are so closely connected that they are really just two parts of the same thing: Great opportunity and great danger are two sides of the same coin.5[uncountable] money in the form of metal coinscoin1 nouncoin2 verb
coincoin2 verb [transitive] VERB TABLE
coin
| Simple Form | ||
| Present | I, you, we, they | coin |
| he, she, it | coins | |
| Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | coined |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have coined |
| he, she, it | has coined | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had coined |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will coin |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have coined |
| Continuous Form | ||
| Present | I | am coining |
| he, she, it | is coining | |
| you, we, they | are coining | |
| Past | I, he, she, it | was coining |
| you, we, they | were coining | |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been coining |
| he, she, it | has been coining | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been coining |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be coining |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been coining |
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- A Polish refugee coined the term "genocide" to describe attempts to kill an entire group of people.
- Freed was the disk jockey who coined the term "rock 'n' roll."
- The term "black hole" was coined in 1969 by the American scientist John Wheeler.
- And the newcomers never stopped coining.
- But in later years I heard it called the Perilous Chair, and I think the name was coined after that day.
- He was going to have fun if it killed him, to coin a phrase.
- I coined it but my good friend Will Shakespeare seized it for himself.
- In a school gymnasium full of caucus-goers in Des Moines, Dole inadvertently coined the best phrase of this perplexing campaign.
Longman Language Activatorto think of a new idea, design, or name for something
to think of an idea for a new product, machine etc for the first time, and design it and make it: · Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone.· Television was invented in the 1920s.· Theremin invented the weird electronic instrument that provided soundtracks to 1950s science-fiction movies.
to make something new in art, literature, fashion etc: · Agatha Christie created the character Hercule Poirot.· Mary Quant created a whole new look for women's clothes in the 1960s.
informal to produce a new idea, name, method etc by thinking carefully about it: think up/come up with something: · See if you can come up with a better name for it.· We need to think up some new ideas for the Christmas show.think something up: · We don't just think this stuff up. It's the way good lawyers always operate.
to invent a way of doing something, especially one that is clever and complicated: · The exercise programme was devised by a leading health expert.· Scientists have devised a test that shows who is most likely to get the disease.
to invent something such as a story or song, usually without writing it down: make up something: · For Halloween, the children made up stories about wolves and witches.· When my mother was in a good mood, she would make up songs about us.make something up: · That's a good riddle. Did you make it up yourself?
formal to think of a new idea, plan, or piece of work and develop it in your mind, until it is ready to be used, made etc: · "We wanted to make something new and original,'' said Colin Smith, the man who conceived the show.· The painting is beautifully conceived in every way -- composition, colour and texture.conceive of: · The young Edvard Munch conceived of a radically new approach to his art.
to think of a plan, idea, method etc, especially one that other people think is strange or unlikely to succeed: dream up something: · Banks seem to spend a lot of time dreaming up ways to get more money from their customers.· The machine looked like it had been dreamed up by a surrealist painter.dream something up: · "It's too complicated for me," Polly whispered; "how do they dream these things up?"
to invent a word or phrase: · The term "black hole" was coined in 1969 by the American scientist John Wheeler.· A Polish refugee coined the term "genocide" to describe attempts to kill an entire group of people.
WORD SETSbob, nounbureau de change, nouncent, nouncentime, nounchange, verbC-note, nouncoin, verbcoinage, nounconvertible, adjectivecrown, nouncurrency, nouncurrency peg, nound., decimalization, noundenomination, nounDeutschmark, noundevalue, verbdime, noundinar, noundollar, noundoubloon, noundough, noundrachma, nounducat, nounexchange rate, nounfarthing, nounfifty, numberfirm, adjectivefiver, nounfive-spot, nounfloat, verbforeign exchange, nounFr, franc, noungold, noungold card, noungroat, nounguilder, nounguinea, nounhalf crown, nounhalf dollar, nounhalfpenny, nounha'penny, nounhard currency, nounkrona, nounkrone, nounKrugerrand, nounlegal tender, nounlira, nounmark, nounmill, nounmint, nounmint, verbmoney, nounmoney supply, nounnickel, nounnote, nounp., paper money, nounparity, nounpence, nounpennies, penny, nounpennyworth, nounpetrodollars, nounpiece, nounquarter, nounquid, nounrand, nounrate of exchange, nounrevalue, verbriyal, nounrouble, nounruble, nounrupee, nounsawbuck, nounshekel, nounshilling, nounsilver, nounsilver dollar, nounsingle, nounsingle currency, nounsixpence, nounsoft currency, nounsovereign, nounsterling, nounstrong, adjectivetenner, nounthreepence, nounthreepenny bit, nountraveller's cheque, nountuppence, nountuppeny, adjectivetwopenny, adjectiveweaken, verbyen, nounyuan, noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES We flipped a coin to see who would go first. In the end the decision was made by the flip of a coin. They tossed a coin to decide who would go first. The toss of a coin decided who would go first.COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN
· an impressive Roman coin collection
We flipped a coin to see who would go first. In the end the decision was made by the flip of a coin. (=invent it)· Funk coined the term ‘vitamin’ in 1912.
They tossed a coin to decide who would go first. The toss of a coin decided who would go first.· The extent of the commitment was best seen in the New Look, a term Eisenhower coined to describe his military policy.· In 1965 the term soliton was coined to describe waves with this remarkable behaviour.· They are Luddites well over a century before the term was coined.
· He published a book on the subject in 1928 entitled Aromatherapie, thus coining the word which has been used ever since.· In our newfound realisation, we have coined the word holistic to summarise this concept.· Galois, it is usually said, coined the word group at this time and introduced the concept of normal subgroup.
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY► coin money/coin it (in)
1to invent a new word or expression, especially one that many people start to use: - Miller was trying to help his career and, to coin a phrase, snatch victory from the jaws of defeat.
- He was going to have fun if it killed him, to coin a phrase.
- I had to find out the hard way - to coin a phrase.
- It is an odd sidelight, to coin a phrase, on road accidents.
The word ‘aromatherapy’ was coined in the 1920s.2to coin a phrase spoken said in a joking way when you use a very common expression, to show that you know it is used a lot: He’d thought the flight would never – to coin a phrase – get off the ground.3coin money/coin it (in) British English informal to earn a lot of money very quickly: BT at its profitable peak was coining it at the rate of £90 a second.4to make pieces of money from metal