(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.
Napoleon
Definition:
(n.) A French gold coin of twenty francs, or about $3.86.
Example Sentences:
(1) Napoleon, Hitler, various people tried this out, and it ends tragically.
(2) It’s Berezina,” one leading Socialist said, referring to Napoleon’s defeat while retreating from Russia.
(3) The only time he came near to directing a Hollywood movie was a projected film about Napoleon with Al Pacino .
(4) But Napoleon had stolen the treasures of Italy, and some are still in Paris.
(5) It wasn't until the peninsular war that Britain actually deployed ground forces against Napoleon.
(6) It is not, however, always a bad thing – some historians have credited the season with stopping advancing armies from Napoleon to the Nazis.
(7) Someone who says "I take inspiration from Napoleon.
(8) What seemed to me to be clearly anti-Jewish discrimination has never been regarded that way in France; it was always accepted by Jews as an integral part of the Republican model, echoing back to the emblematic Napoleonic contract that gave them citizenship.
(9) What is the evidence that Napoleon was afflicted with thrombosed hemorrhoids?
(10) A sensationalist and scruple-free press seems eager to collude in their “noble lie”: that a Middle Eastern militia, thriving on the utter ineptitude of its local adversaries, poses an “existential risk” to an island fortress that saw off Napoleon and Hitler .
(11) The loss of titles such as 3rd Battalion, the Yorkshire Regiment, with a history dating back to the days of Napoleon, when it was formerly known as the Duke of Wellington's Regiment, will be painful.
(12) But its real claim to fame was because it was the Duke of Wellington who bought it from Napoleon's sister with all the stuff that was in it."
(13) When France was close to bankruptcy during the Napoleonic wars, the US government snapped up Louisiana at three cents an acre, in what is still regarded as the best real estate coup in history.
(14) Movies like Napoleon , J'Accuse!, La Roue are extraordinary.
(15) Hair powder was taxed to pay for the Napoleonic wars.
(16) History of proctology is illustrated by some important figures and events: St. Fiacre, Felix the surgeon who operated on King Louis XIV's fistula and the acutely thrombosed hemorrhoidal prolapse of Napoleon.
(17) In France and every other European country with a Napoleonic code, you cannot access public services or find work without a card.
(18) Unsurprising when you consider that Napoleon was wrong about lots of things, such as being really tall, invading Russia and speaking clearly on his deathbed so that those in the vicinity could make an accurate note of his comments for posterity, but in this case he was dreadfully, spectacularly wrong.
(19) Mike Duggan, a onetime hospital executive, led by a comfortable margin going into the polls over his African American rival, Wayne County sheriff Benny Napoleon.
(20) As part of the tsarist army the Cossacks pursued Napoleon's forces across Europe , finally camping on the Champs Elysées in 1814.