Coin

• POS: Noun, Verb (transitive)

CIDE DICTIONARY

Coin, 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.].

•  A quoin; a corner or external angle; a wedge. See Coigne, and Quoin.  [1913 Webster]
•  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.  [1913 Webster]

  "It is alleged that it [a subsidy] exceeded all the current coin of the realm."  [1913 Webster]
•  That which serves for payment or recompense.  [1913 Webster]

  "The loss of present advantage to flesh and blood is repaid in a nobler coin."  [1913 Webster]

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, 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.  [1913 Webster]
•  To make or fabricate; to invent; to originate; as, to coin a word.  [1913 Webster]

  "Some tale, some new pretense, he daily coined,
  To soothe his sister and delude her mind."  [1913 Webster]
•  To acquire rapidly, as money; to make.  [1913 Webster]

  "Tenants cannot coin rent just at quarter day."  [1913 Webster]

Coin, v. i. 

 To manufacture counterfeit money.  [1913 Webster]
"They cannot touch me for coining."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Coin, n. & v.
--n.
1 a piece of flat usu. round metal stamped and issued by authority as money.
2 (collect.) metal money.
--v.tr.
1 make (coins) by stamping.
2 make (metal) into coins.
3 invent or devise (esp. a new word or phrase).

Idiom

coin-box
1 a telephone operated by inserting coins.
2 the receptacle for these. coin money make much money quickly. coin-op a launderette etc. with automatic machines operated by inserting coins. to coin a phrase iron. introducing a banal remark or clich{eacute}.

Etymology

ME f. OF, = stamping-die, f. L cuneus wedge

THESAURUS

Coin

L, angle, apex, beget, bend, bifurcation, bight, bread, breed, bring forth, bring into being, call into being, cant, cash, change, chevron, chips, conceit, conceive, conceptualize, concoct, contrive, cook up, corner, counterfeit, crank, create, crook, crotchet, crown, currency, deflection, design, develop, devise, discover, dogleg, double eagle, doubloon, dough, dream up, ducat, eagle, elbow, ell, engender, evolve, experience imaginatively, fabricate, fancy, fantasize, fictionalize, five-dollar gold piece, forge, fork, frame, furcation, generate, give being to, give rise to, gold piece, guinea, half crown, half eagle, hard money, hatch, hook, ideate, imagine, improvise, inaugurate, inflection, innovate, introduce, introduce new blood, invent, jack, knee, legal tender, make do with, make innovations, make money, make up, mature, mazuma, mint, moidore, mold, money, napoleon, neologize, neoterize, nook, originate, piece, piece of money, piece of silver, pioneer, plan, point, pound sovereign, procreate, produce, quoin, renew, renovate, revolutionize, roll of coins, rouleau, scratch, shape, shekels, shove the queer, silver, sovereign, spawn, specie, stamp, start, strike out, suppose, swerve, ten-dollar gold piece, think out, think up, twenty-dollar gold piece, utter, veer, vertex, zag, zig, zigzag

ROGET THESAURUS

Coin

Money

N money, legal tender, money matters, money market, finance, accounts, funds, treasure, capital, stock, assets, wealth, supplies, ways and means, wherewithal, sinews of war, almighty dollar, needful, cash, mammon, dough, cabbage, money-like instruments, M, M, sum, amount, balance, balance sheet, sum total, proceeds, currency, circulating medium, specie, coin, piece, hard cash, cold cash, dollar, sterling coin, pounds shillings and pence, Ls, d, pocket, breeches pocket, purse, money in hand, cash at hand, ready money, ready cash, slug, wad wad of bills, wad of money, thick wad of bills, roll of dough, rhino, blunt, dust, mopus, tin, salt, chink, argent comptant, bottom dollar, buzzard dollar, checks, dibs, double eagle, eagle, Federal currency, fractional currency, postal currency, Federal Reserve Note, United States Note, silver certificate, gold certificate, long bit, short bit, moss, nickel, pile, pin money, quarter, red cent, roanoke, rock, seawan, seawant, thousand dollars, grand, single, one-dollar bill, two- dollar bill, five-dollar bill, fiver, fin, Lincoln, ten-dollar bill, sawbuck, twenty-dollar bill, Jackson, double sawbuck, fifty-dollar bill, hundred-dollar bill, C-note, penny, cent, Lincoln cent, indian head penny, copper, two-cent piece three-cent piece, half- dime, nickel, buffalo nickel, V nickel, dime, disme, mercury dime, quarter, two bits, half dollar, dollar, silver dollar, Eisenhower dollar, Susan B, Anthony dollar, precious metals, gold, silver, copper, bullion, ingot, nugget, petty cash, pocket money, change, small change, small coin, doit, stiver, rap, mite, farthing, sou, penny, shilling, tester, groat, guinea, rouleau, wampum, good sum, round sum, lump sum, power of money, plum, lac of rupees, major coin, crown, minor coin, monetarist, monetary theory, numismatics, chrysology, numismatist, paper money, greenback, major denomination, minor denomination, money order, postal money order, Post Office order, bank note, bond, bill, bill of exchange, order, warrant, coupon, debenture, exchequer bill, assignat, blueback, hundi, shinplaster, note, note of hand, promissory note, I O U, draft, check, cheque, back-dated check, negotiable order of withdrawal, NOW, remittance, credit, liability, drawer, drawee, obligor, obligee, moneyer, coiner, false money, bad money, base coin, flash note, slip, kite, fancy stocks, Bank of Elegance, argumentum ad crumenam, letter of credit, circulation, multiplier effect, inflation, double-digit inflation, hyperinflation, erosion of the currency, debasement of the currency, deflation, stagflation, exchange rate, rate of exchange, floating exchange rates, fixed rates, currency counter, currency exchange, bureau de change, gold-backed currency, gold standard, silver standard, bank account, savings account, checking account, money market account, NOW account, time deposit, deposit, demand deposit, super NOW account, certificate of deposit, CD, $, US$, Y, A$, Federal Reserve Bank, central bank, Federal Reserve Board, board of governors of the Federal Reserve, Treasury Department, Secret Service, mint, bureau of engraving, seigniorage, counterfeit, funny money, bogus money, (falsehood), interest, interest rate, discount rate, monetary, pecuniary, crumenal, fiscal, financial, sumptuary, numismatic, numismatical, sterling, nummary, barbarus ipse placet dummodo sit dives, but the jingling of the guinea helps the hurt that, Gelt regiert die Welt, money rules the world, money makes the world go round, nervos belli pecuniam infinitam, redet Geld so schweigt die Welt, money is the mother's milk of politics, money is the root of all evil, money isn't everything, as phony as a three-dollar bill, don't take any wooden nickels.

VB amount to, come to, mount up to, touch the pocket, draw, draw upon, indorse, issue, utter, discount, back, demonetize, remonetize, fiscalize, monetize, circulate, be in circulation, be out of circulation, mint (coins), coin, print (paper currency), inflate, deflate, debase, devalue, revalue, circulate, put in circulation, withdraw from circulation, exchange currencies, change money, charge interest, pay interest, lose interest.

Production

VB produce, perform, operate, do, make, gar, form, construct, fabricate, frame, contrive, manufacture, weave, forge, coin, carve, chisel, build, raise, edify, rear, erect, put together, set up, run up, establish, constitute, compose, organize, institute, achieve, accomplish, flower, bear fruit, fructify, teem, ean, yean, farrow, drop, pup, kitten, kindle, bear, lay, whelp, bring forth, give birth to, lie in, be brought to bed of, evolve, pullulate, usher into the world, make productive, create, beget, get, generate, fecundate, impregnate, procreate, progenerate, propagate, engender, bring into being, call into being, bring into existence, breed, hatch, develop, bring up, induce, superinduce, suscitate, cause, acquire.

Imagination

VB imagine, fancy, conceive, idealize, realize, dream, dream of, dream up, give to airy nothing a local habitation and a name, create, originate, devise, invent, coin, fabricate, improvise, strike out something new, set one's wits to work, strain one's invention, crack one's invention, rack one's brains, ransack one's brains, cudgel one's brains, excogitate, brainstorm, give play, give the reins, give a loose to the imagination, give fancy, indulge in reverie, visualize, envision, conjure up a vision, fancy oneself, represent oneself, picture, picture-oneself, figure to oneself, vorstellen, float in the mind, suggest itself.