What's the difference between coin and patina?

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.

Patina


Definition:

  • (n.) A dish or plate of metal or earthenware; a patella.
  • (n.) The color or incrustation which age gives to works of art; especially, the green rust which covers ancient bronzes, coins, and medals.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Frequent antisemitic raids undermined Vishneva’s patina of autonomy.
  • (2) It’s all, says the chancellor, George Osborne, “part of our long-term plan to secure Britain’s future.” To an idiot such as myself, it looks like part of a long-term plan to secure the future of Patina Rail LLP.
  • (3) That may indeed exist below the democratic patina of these declarations.
  • (4) But a patina of menace soon becomes apparent as you read the details and digest the implications.
  • (5) But it also brought together a fractured nation, promoted Mr Hoff – with his illuminated leather jacket and walnut patina – to a symbol of all the west had to offer and now, 25 years later, provides the mercilessly frequent music accompaniment to this one-(H)off documentary commemorating the fall of the Berlin Wall.
  • (6) The Knights Templar group, which evolved out of a split from another drug gang, La Familia , has grown into the state's most powerful mafia, draped in a patina of religiosity and insurgent rebellion.
  • (7) What it may do, should a consensus be reached, is give momentum and a patina of success to an otherwise lustreless conference.
  • (8) He acknowledged Cameron's prime ministerial patina, his perceived "strength", but sought to turn it against him: "He may be strong at standing up to the weak, but he's always weak when it comes to standing up to the strong."
  • (9) "All those patinas fit better on a person like me."
  • (10) Scraping away at the green patina on the new-look, Zac Goldsmith-inspired Conservative environmental policies, puncturing Brown's grumpy greenery and unpicking the carbon contortions of the coal-loving Celts.
  • (11) The education provided by industry, coated in a patina of self-regulation, has been shown to be biased.
  • (12) The speech announcing his decision gave it a philosophical patina, as Trump returned to the “America first” theme of his inaugural address, describing the world as a site of Hobbesian, dog-eat-dog competition in which global cooperation is for wimps and suckers.
  • (13) The only way to completely remove a scratch in a piece of furniture is to sand the surrounding timber down to the same level as the scratch, but this can destroy the finish, patina and character of a piece of furniture and is hard, time-consuming work.
  • (14) David Bandurski, of Hong Kong University's China media project, said the new commentaries, with their "patina of moral decadence", were "helping to whip up an atmosphere where it's easier to tackle social media … It's part of a general campaign to put more pressure on microblogs".
  • (15) It is, however, now clear that David Cameron’s one-time “ vote blue, go green ” pitch in opposition was no more than verdigris, a patina rapidly scratched off by the grind of being in government.
  • (16) If Patina Rail LLP makes a mess of running the service, it’s not hard to see who’ll be expected to pick up the pieces.