(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.
Example Sentences:
(1) Tactile stimulation of a coin-sized area in a T-2 dermatome consistently triggered a lancinating pain in the ipsilateral C-8 dermatome in a 38-year-old woman.
(2) Heads you 'own it' Ian Read, the Scottish-born accountant who runs the biggest drug firm in the US carries in his pocket a special gold coin, about the size and weight of a £2 piece.
(3) as well as nauseatingly hipster titbits – "They came up with the perfect theme (and coined a new term!
(4) There are no cases Money could uncover of people convicted for slipping a dodgy £1 into a vending machine or palming one off to their newsagent, but criminal gangs have been jailed for manufacturing fake coins.
(5) These include 250 pieces of Greek and Roman pottery and sculpture, and 1,500 Greek and Ottoman gold, silver and bronze coins.
(6) The #putyourwalletsout phrase was coined by Sydney-based Twitter user Steve Lopez, who accompanied it with a photo of his wallet.
(7) For Bond fans, this is the best Christmas present – the return of James Bond and classic elements of the series with yet another classic title coined by Ian Fleming,” said Ajay Chowdhury of the James Bond International Fan Club .
(8) A 49-year-old man was operated for coin lesion detected on routine chest X-ray.
(9) Lavoisier subsequently coined the word "oxy-gène."
(10) Soon my pillowcases bore rusty coins of nasal drippage.
(11) The chest X-ray film revealed a coin lesion in the right upper lung field (S1), the same segment as the previous pneumonia.
(12) If the eye shielding block cannot be placed at the optimal shielding point, a simple coin placed on the eye lid surface will also reduce the lens dose substantially when a regular eye shielding block is placed on the blocking tray (Lin's coin effect).
(13) Her companion, a man in his fifties, also refused to give his name to the “Lugen Presse” (liar press, a term coined by the Nazis and frequently chanted at Pegida events), but is quick to add: “We’ve nothing against helping foreigners in need, like those poor people in Syria, but we should be helping them in their own country, not bringing them over here.” The demonstrations feel like an invitation for anyone to voice any grievance.
(14) In 1761, while still an apprentice surgeon, he made his discovery of the unique and bizarre cause--compression of the oesophagus by an aberrant right subclavian artery--of a fatal case of 'obstructed deglutition' for which he coined the term 'dysphagia lusoria' and for which he is eponymously remembered.
(15) A 58-year-old woman was referred to the Fukuoka University Hospital because a coin lesion approximately 5 cm in diameter was detected in the right lower lobe of the lung by routine roentgenographic examination.
(16) Kettering didn't let the matter lie - after all, clubs like Bayern Munich had been coining it in on the continent for years - and so, with Derby and Bolton, they put forward a proposal to the FA regarding shirt sponsorship.
(17) Rodgers' team took the lead from their first corner when Suárez – pelted with coins from the away section that he handed to referee Martin Atkinson – swept to the near post.
(18) In the Russian gallery, for example, the courageous Vadim Zakharov presents a pointed version of the Danaë myth in which an insouciant dictator (of whom it is hard not to think: Putin) sits on a high beam on a saddle, shelling nuts all day while gold coins rain down from a vast shower-head only to be hoisted in buckets by faceless thuggish men in suits.
(19) Bronchial cysts usually occur centrally near the mediastinum, but may present as a peripheral "coin" lesion requiring distinction from other causes of coin lesions of the lung.
(20) Using a small silicon microchip in a USB, a 'lab on a chip' as it has been coined, DNA data can be analysed within minutes and outside a laboratory.
Florence
Definition:
(n.) An ancient gold coin of the time of Edward III., of six shillings sterling value.
(n.) A kind of cloth.
Example Sentences:
(1) The letter to Florence Nightingale was written by Bernita Decker as part of a nursing course assignment for our Nurse Educator advisor, Betty Pugh.
(2) Using the Italian I distantly remember from my year abroad in Florence as a student (mi chiama Hadley!
(3) As for his detention following a possible conviction … although Mr Aswat would have access to mental health services regardless of which prison he was be detained in, his extradition to a country where he had no ties and where he would face an uncertain future in an as yet undetermined institution, and possibly be subjected to the highly restrictive regime in ADX Florence, would violate article 3 of the convention."
(4) Politicians here always say they will act on immigration, yet they never do.” Florence Faucher, professor of political science at Paris’s Sciences Po University, said there were parallels between Front National voters in France and those who backed Ukip in the UK, particularly the sense of those who felt “left behind”, who hadn’t benefited from globalisation, feared the insecurity in the job market and worried about their future.
(5) The nuptials drew crowds of fans eager to witness the glitzy event, but they were kept far away from the heavily walled 16th-century fortress, which offers stunning views of Florence and surrounding Tuscan hills.
(6) One of the earliest accounts of nursing research, which indicates the power of making systematic observations, was Florence Nightingale's study.
(7) Although in other extradition cases the ECHR had not found that conditions in ADX Florence facility in Colorado were unacceptable, it deemed that Aswat's case was different because of his mental health condition.
(8) The international literature on the subject is reviewed, and the schedule currently employed in the follow-up of breast cancer patients at the Radiotherapy Unit of Florence is reported.
(9) Though Renzi faces an increasingly sceptical Italian public, with the populist and anti-euro Five Star Movement gaining in popularity, the former mayor of Florence remains one of the most vocal proponents of the EU in Europe and, according to analyst Federico Santi of the Eurasia Group, is keen to settle Brexit-related uncertainty in financial markets that could harm Italy.
(10) The Welch warbler does it and I believe that's all the bases covered: Bitta street cred with Dizzee, NME fodder with Kasabian, bitta Brit pop with JLS and prizes for the new wave of British female performers (Lily, Florence).
(11) The author wishes to thank Joanne Damon, R.N., Sandra Zion, R.N., Dorothy Markay, R.N., and Rachel Rotkovitch, R.N., for their advice, encouragement, and support, and Florence Williams, R.N., who provided clinical supervision.
(12) But, having last year decried the dearth of Scottish comedy on the fringe , I’d better give this year’s pre-Edinburgh sketch laurels to Burnistoun (Robert Florence and Iain Connell), the well-loved BBC Scotland sketch show now following up a sell-out Glasgow run with a first appearance at the fringe.
(13) The department of Gynecology and Obstetrics of Florence University reports the following findings for the chemotherapy of gestational choriocarcinoma during the period 1962-74.
(14) perfringens food poisoning which occurred in Florence during 1976 have been described.
(15) A systematic study was carried out in cooperation between the Department of Neurology of the University of Florence and the Istituto Superiore di Sanità (Rome), in order to understand a possible role of arboviruses as etiologic agents of meningoencephalitis in Italy; in this preliminary communication the first clinical case of Tick-Borne Encephalitis (TBE) virus infection is described.
(16) The work, For the Love of God, has recently drawn huge crowds at museums in Florence and Amsterdam – but has not been seen in London since 2007 when, at the height of Britain's pre-crash prosperity, it was sold (for £50m, Hirst claimed) to a consortium that included the artist himself.
(17) A survey of the health and social conditions of a representative sample of 967 persons aged 60 years and older from the city of Florence, Italy, was undertaken in 1980.
(18) Hilary Mantel with Peter Florence 2012 PF: When you say you’re dealing in “the present”, it’s written often in the present tense.
(19) By evening, I found myself agreeing to pitch a tent on the banks of the Arno for an illegal bivouac in the heart of Florence.
(20) The rapper was recently quoted in the Florence newspaper La Nazione as saying he and Kardashian had come to Florence previously incognito and he believed that their daughter, North, was conceived "among the Renaissance masterpieces".