(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.
Mill
Definition:
(n.) A money of account of the United States, having the value of the tenth of a cent, or the thousandth of a dollar.
(n.) A machine for grinding or comminuting any substance, as grain, by rubbing and crushing it between two hard, rough, or intented surfaces; as, a gristmill, a coffee mill; a bone mill.
(n.) A machine used for expelling the juice, sap, etc., from vegetable tissues by pressure, or by pressure in combination with a grinding, or cutting process; as, a cider mill; a cane mill.
(n.) A machine for grinding and polishing; as, a lapidary mill.
(n.) A common name for various machines which produce a manufactured product, or change the form of a raw material by the continuous repetition of some simple action; as, a sawmill; a stamping mill, etc.
(n.) A building or collection of buildings with machinery by which the processes of manufacturing are carried on; as, a cotton mill; a powder mill; a rolling mill.
(n.) A hardened steel roller having a design in relief, used for imprinting a reversed copy of the design in a softer metal, as copper.
(n.) An excavation in rock, transverse to the workings, from which material for filling is obtained.
(n.) A passage underground through which ore is shot.
(n.) A milling cutter. See Illust. under Milling.
(n.) A pugilistic.
(n.) To reduce to fine particles, or to small pieces, in a mill; to grind; to comminute.
(n.) To shape, finish, or transform by passing through a machine; specifically, to shape or dress, as metal, by means of a rotary cutter.
(n.) To make a raised border around the edges of, or to cut fine grooves or indentations across the edges of, as of a coin, or a screw head; also, to stamp in a coining press; to coin.
(n.) To pass through a fulling mill; to full, as cloth.
(n.) To beat with the fists.
(n.) To roll into bars, as steel.
(v. i.) To swim under water; -- said of air-breathing creatures.
Example Sentences:
(1) The only sign of life was excavators loading trees on to barges to take to pulp mills.
(2) When reformist industrialist Robert Owen set about creating a new community among the workers in his New Lanark cotton-spinning mills at the turn of the nineteenth century, it was called socialism, not corporate social responsibility.
(3) The Cambridge-based couple felt ignored when tried to raise the alarm about the way their business – publisher Zenith – was treated by Lynden Scourfield, the former HBOS banker jailed last week, and David Mills’ Quayside Corporate Services.
(4) This is a report on a male patient of 71 years of age who had been a graphite mill worker for about 14 years.
(5) What seems beyond doubt is that Koussa has long represented the old guard which for decades was close to Gaddafi, but which – if the Tripoli rumour mill is to be believed – has recently been pushed aside by Gaddafi's competing sons.
(6) It obviously helps to have a waterfront, red bricks and cotton mills,” said Professor Karel Williams at Manchester Business School.
(7) Airborne endotoxin also was estimated in the different work places of the mill.
(8) 800,000 U and 1.5 mill U SK recanalized infarct-related arteries at a rate of 78%.
(9) A cross-sectional study of 315 animal feed workers was undertaken in 14 animal feed mills in the Netherlands.
(10) A study was conducted to estimate the exposure-response relationship for tremolite-actinolite fiber exposure and radiographic findings among 184 men employed at a Montana vermiculite mine and mill.
(11) Mills said the operators' maps, which he copied, showed the mark was to be the site of a detonation.
(12) Two hundred and seventy-one men seen in 1963, who worked in a pulp and a paper mill, were followed up ten years later, in 1973.
(13) No significant changes in respiratory function or bronchial responsiveness related to exposure to hydrogen sulphide in the pulp mill workers were found.
(14) This was caused by ingestion of branches of the alder buckthorn (Frangula alnus (mill.)
(15) To create a new bank, which we understand is an option, which could be called Glyn Mills, is ridiculously back to the future.
(16) Under an abandoned flour mill and in a "howling, freezing" power station, he had "eaten sandwiches and coffee coated thick with dust".
(17) Non-occupational exposure of the population living in the vicinity of the serpentine mining and processing mill in Nasławice was assessed.
(18) The concentration of hyaluronan was measured in the bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BALF) of 18 control subjects and 27 workers from the asbestos mills and mines of Québec, 9 without asbestosis and 18 with asbestosis.
(19) The erythrocytic stages of Plasmodium falciparum from Aotus trivirgatus were grown in Mill Hill medium.
(20) Video of flooding in Barcombe Mills, East Sussex 12.07pm GMT Lord Smith of the Environment Agency due to speak from Somerset soon.