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Meaning coin meaning

What does coin mean?
Definitions in simple English

coin

A coin is money made of metal. The United States makes several different coins including the penny, nickel, dime, and quarter.

coin

When you invent a new word or phrase, you coin the word or phrase. The host of a radio show coined the phrase "rock and roll" for music of the 1950s.

coin

a flat metal piece (usually a disc) used as money make up coin phrases or words (= strike) form by stamping, punching, or printing strike coins strike a medal

Synonyms coin synonyms

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Topics coin topics

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Conjugation coin conjugation

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coin · verb

Examples coin examples

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Simple sentences

She picked up a coin.
There is a gold coin.
A nickel is a five-cent coin.
The boy thrust the coin into his pocket.
I paid in coin.
He took a coin out of his pocket.
He came across this old coin in an antique shop.
She bent down and picked up the coin.
Let's decide by coin toss.
But so that we may not cause offense, go to the lake and throw out your line. Take the first fish you catch; open its mouth and you will find a four-drachma coin. Take it and give it to them for my tax and yours.
Tom bent over to pick up a coin that was on the floor.
Econony and quality are not opposites, but rather two sides of the same coin.
The bill was paid in coin.
The date on the coin is 1921.
A coin rolled under the desk.
A coin dropped out of his pocket.
I searched in my pocket for a coin to make a phone call.

Movie subtitles

Yeah, I definitely didn't coin that, Neal.
I hope you'll get some comfort out of this coin you've been sweating over then.
I found him putting a coin in one of your puddings.
Each man will receive a pudding. concealed in one of these is a coin.
Gentlemen, the coin is here!
I put a coin in every pudding.
I used to pay one coin.
In a manner so serious as this, we must make sure. of every point, explore every avenue, and, in fact, if I may coin a phrase, leave no stone unturned.
If charity be false as that coin.
It is a false coin, and I, myself, knew it not!
Why do you smell my fish, master of a copper coin?
But this is genuine coin of the realm.
She is, to coin a phrase, very often uncertain and coy and hard to please.
Confirmand, give us a coin.
Shall I drop in another coin?
Look, the coin you gave me for helping you.
Take this five-kopeck coin, Father!
Kid, loan me your coin.
Shit! My coin!
Ring every coin you meet.
I'm only in this for the coin.
We'll have plenty of coin from now on, baby.
We'll spin a coin for them buckles, when I say the word.
Why not? I'll toss you a coin for it.
We'll flip a coin.
Concealed in one of these is a coin.
I've always said they are two different sides of the same coin.
It's a coin from my country.
Leaving the Monaco station. I realised the garage man had slipped me a counterfeit coin.
You can also practice by passing a coin. from your left hand to your right sleeve.
Agold coin?
We tossed a coin for the night shift and I lost.
Say, why wouldn't it be a good idea for Mr. Wilson to pay a little visit to Habersville, just long enough to collect this coin?
Shall we toss a coin?

News and current affairs

Counter-insurgency and counter-narcotics are two sides of the same coin.
They are, instead, two sides of the same coin.
Morality has always been the intellectual coin of these conflicts.
But we should not lose sight of the other side of that coin.
It looks as if the German electorate had refused to make up their mind and had instead tossed up a coin.
What we understand as the instrumentality of science was, for Bacon, nothing but the other side of the scientific coin.
In the 1970's, American psychologists Alice Isen and Paula Levin conducted an experiment in which some randomly selected people making a phone call found a ten-cent coin left behind by a previous caller, and others did not.
Isen and Levin claimed that of the 16 who found a coin, 14 helped the woman, while of the 25 who did not find a coin, only one helped her.
A further study found a similar difference in willingness to mail an addressed letter that had been left behind in the phone booth: those who found the coin were more likely to mail the letter.
A stable currency and sound public finances are two sides of the same coin - that's just how it is.
Convincing studies of drugs and surgical procedures usually come only from randomized trials, in which patients receive treatment or don't according to a process analogous to a coin flip.
If a country saves less than it invests, it must borrow the difference from abroad, and foreign borrowing and trade deficits are two sides of the same coin.
In fact, Spanish coin remained legal tender in the US until 1857 - long after Spain itself had ceased to be a major power.
They are, instead, two sides of the same coin. The EU was founded in recognition that certain goals could only be achieved through cooperation.
Rigid, top-down uniformity is essential in the specification of weights and measures and the issuance of currency and coin.
But the next time that someone advocates a single financial regulator and its simplicity, remember that there is another side to that coin: where are the safety valves?
True, capitalism creates disruption and uncertainty. But we should not lose sight of the other side of that coin.
There will always be statistical flukes in the data, just as any series of coin tosses can produce an unexpected string of seven heads in a row.
After thousands of coin tosses, if the data still show a bias toward heads, one may be justified in thinking that the coin has some unusual properties.
That trade imbalance implied a continuous drain on gold and silver coin, causing shortages of these metals in Rome.
One commitment can be loosely described by the image of German and European unity as constituting two sides of the same coin. One could not exist without the other.
If one thinks of national security as two sides of a coin, with foreign policy on one side and domestic policy on the other, how likely is each to land face up for the next president?

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