What's the difference between coin and florin?

Coin


Definition:

  • (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.

Florin


Definition:

  • (n.) A silver coin of Florence, first struck in the twelfth century, and noted for its beauty. The name is given to different coins in different countries. The florin of England, first minted in 1849, is worth two shillings, or about 48 cents; the florin of the Netherlands, about 40 cents; of Austria, about 36 cents.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Southampton had lost Toby Alderweireld to an early injury but Florin Gardos seamlessly filled the gap alongside José Fonte.
  • (2) In the process, they made the return leg next Wednesday feel like a formality – even Hart might get a game – and as a measure of their performance it is no exaggeration to say Florin Nita, Steaua’s goalkeeper, had authentic credentials to be recognised as the game’s outstanding performer.
  • (3) The costs for the reagents were about 0.5 Dutch florin (ca 0.30 US-$) per well.
  • (4) Assuming the inclusion of France as one of these 'big five', Tom Edwards correctly identified the "perma-permed, shopping addicted Romanian waste of space, Florin Raducioiu .
  • (5) The other option is the Romania international Florin Gardos, who has been given only 46 minutes of Premier League action since joining from Steaua Bucharest in the summer.
  • (6) Educational intervention programs in Florin, Greece, a mountainous rural area with a low (15-20%) attendance at prenatal clinics, were conducted to reduce perinatal and infant morbidity and mortality and to promote physical and psychomotor development.
  • (7) congesta C. Y. Cheng, E. minuta Florin, E. minuta var.
  • (8) From the resulting corner Florin Andone looped a header on to the roof of the net.
  • (9) One in three practices did not keep patients' electronic records up to date, which could mean that a patient may not be called for a blood test at the right time.At the Norris Road surgery, run by Dr Michael Florin, "we found confidential records left unattended or not securely storied in a number of areas of the practice".
  • (10) His stories veer from the Romania forward Florin Raducioiu opting "to go shopping at Harvey Nics with the in-laws" rather than play for West Ham against Stockport, to the Portugal striker Paulo Futre's refusing to wear the club's No 16 shirt ahead of a match against Arsenal.
  • (11) ex Mey., E. fedtschenkoae Pauls, and E. regeliana Florin are described, compared and illustrated with line drawings.
  • (12) Córdoba had looked more likely to win the game and Florin Andone hit the crossbar after 67 minutes with a lob over Iker Casillas in the Madrid goal.
  • (13) It was shown on the basis of NMR-H spectra that the addition of proton to dianions of Zn-octaethylchlorine, Zn-octaethylporphin, and Zn-monoasaethioporphyrin results in the formation of products with the structure of alpha-dihydroflorine, alpha-florine, and gamma-florine respectively.
  • (14) In this paper, the morphological and histological characters of crude drugs derived from Ephedra likiangensis Florin, E. likiangensis f. mairei (Florin) C. Y. Cheng, E. saxatilis Royle ex Florin, E. gerardiana Wall, E. gerardiana var.