(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.
Sixpence
Definition:
(n.) An English silver coin of the value of six pennies; half a shilling, or about twelve cents.
Example Sentences:
(1) But if books are sixpence each you are not going to buy 10 of them, because you don’t want as many as 10.” Natalie Haynes is author of The Amber Fury
(2) Current trails include Birmingham’s anti-slavery landmarks, a tour of city life living on sixpence a day during the 18th and 19th centuries, and a more contemporary side of Birmingham following sculptures around the city.
(3) From 1901 the Antrobus family, who owned the site, charged sixpence admission.
(4) We crept out of a back door and went to a club where a girl was dancing in a bird cage, and sitting on a mezzanine above us we saw Lionel Jeffries and the producer Robert Lynn dropping sixpences on her head.
(5) "I believe that a good penny and sixpence store, run by a live Yankee, would be a sensation here," he wrote in his diary.
(6) You reel back at Cohn’s words, and wonder why anyone would even bother listening to Tex’s records, but then he turns on a sixpence and reels you in with a couple of lines: “He’s funny, he really is, and he obviously enjoys himself.
(7) Cisse turns on a sixpence on the edge of the area, working himself space for a shot.
(8) YES: Jay Rayner, Observer restaurant critic In the old days, the only way to make money out of a Christmas pudding was by getting lucky and almost choking on the foil-wrapped sixpence that your mother had secreted there.
(9) But the full quote from Orwell runs: "The Penguin books are splendid value for sixpence, so splendid that if other publishers had any sense they would combine against them and suppress them."
(10) Makeshift centre-forward Gerard Pique shows the Big Game Bottler Other Big Game Bottlers doff their hats to how it's done by picking up a defence-splitting through-ball from Xavi, drawing Julio Cesar towards him, turning on a sixpence and slotting the ball into an empty goal from 12 yards.
(11) Jack Straw , a former Labour foreign secretary, said: "When things are relatively calm, suspicions, fantasies and sometimes paranoia can take off about the so-called secret state but the moment there is a serious threat of an outrage the very same people and newspapers turn on a sixpence and they demand [to know why] there has been a failure by the intelligence agencies."
(12) What a brilliant finish from Cousin, who takes up the ball in the box with his back to goal, turns 180 degrees on a sixpence to confuse Anderson beyond all reason, and wheechs a thunderous shot past Vercoutre.
(13) Bearing that in mind, Heston has stuffed the tangerine (well, orange) inside your Christmas pud, inviting you to play hunt the orange, not the sixpence.
(14) Helpfully, Amazon explains: “Yes, George Orwell was suggesting collusion.” And that’s true – so long as you come in halfway through his sentence which reads, in its entirety: “The Penguin books are splendid value for sixpence, so splendid that if other publishers had any sense they would combine against them and suppress them.” It’s a compliment, not a manifesto.
(15) It was never in George Orwell’s interest to suppress paperback books — he was wrong about that.” Well, he would have been, if the full quote – about publisher Penguin’s introduction of paperback books – hadn’t been this: “The Penguin Books are splendid value for sixpence, so splendid that if other publishers had any sense they would combine against them and suppress them.” Several sites have already called Amazon out on its partial quote – notably TechCrunch , which described the decision as “horrible” while noting that “it’s clear that Orwell is praising the paperback, not arguing for its abolition”.
(16) Did my father give the local farmer sixpence to allow us entry?
(17) Bruce Ross-Smith Oxford • In Richard Hoggart's obituary, you recall that he wrote of seeing his widowed mother "standing frozen, while tears start slowly down her cheeks because a sixpence has been lost … you do not easily forget".
(18) In Micawber's example, the deficit is sixpence; in the case of the UK, it is £159.2bn – but the principle is the same.
(19) Even I don't sentimentalise them, and I sentimentalise everything , from crap 80s Chevy Chase comedies I saw as a kid to crap 1990s film soundtracks I liked as a teenager (Lisa Loeb, Sixpence None the Richer, the Cardigans – you are not forgotten ).
(20) Except that Gowing strongly recommended a new patent stylographic pen, which cost me nine and sixpence, and which was simply nine and sixpence thrown in the mud."