(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.
Tester
Definition:
(n.) A headpiece; a helmet.
(n.) A flat canopy, as over a pulpit or tomb.
(n.) A canopy over a bed, supported by the bedposts.
(n.) An old French silver coin, originally of the value of about eighteen pence, subsequently reduced to ninepence, and later to sixpence, sterling. Hence, in modern English slang, a sixpence; -- often contracted to tizzy. Called also teston.
Example Sentences:
(1) As compared with solvent-treated control, no significant increases were observed in the number of revertant colonies in all tester strains in both systems with and without mammalian metabolic activation (S9 Mix).
(2) Gamma-ray-induced reversions in the Ames Salmonella tester strain TA2638 have been studied for their dependence on a number of experimental parameters.
(3) In addition to the fatigue tester and the pulse duplicator, a signal conditioner, a DC amplifier, an analog-to-digital converter, and a digital microcomputer comprised the essential hardware.
(4) Exogenous IC-DH in the incubation for LMA did not alter the mitotic crossing-over and the mitotic gene conversion of dimethylnitrosamine (DMNA) and AR2MNFN (a nitroimidazo[2,1-b]thiazole) in the tester D7 strain of Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
(5) These results suggest that nickel is unable to induce basepair or frameshift mutations in Salmonella tester strains and are discussed in relationship to the low binding affinity of Ni(II) for DNA.
(6) In Drosophila melanogaster new tester strains for the somatic mutation and recombination test (SMART) in the wing were constructed with the aim of increasing the metabolic capacity to activate promutagens.
(7) Vibratory sensitivity was strongly related to height when measurements were made with either the vibration sensitivity tester (P = .02) or the biothesiometer (P less than .01); however, there was no relation between thermal sensitivity (as measured with the thermal sensitivity tester) and height.
(8) Trials with Escherichia coli ATCC and Staphylococcus aureus ATCC strains have been carried out using a point-acting tester as generator of negative oxygen ions.
(9) In addition, the depression of prophage induction observed when the drugs were combined with aflatoxin B1 may be indicative of a common target site of action in the tester strains.
(10) The newly engineered acetyltransferase-enhanced Salmonella tester strain YG1024 (TA98(pYG219] demonstrated greatly enhanced sensitivity to the mutagenicity of 2,4-DAT.
(11) A study was conducted to evaluate the potential of the Testark system in comparison with a commercially available pulp tester.
(12) The stiffness tester and torque meter were found to yield nearly the same measurements of bending deformation for orthodontic wires as small as .007 inch diameter, provided the different bending apparatus are calibrated to each other.
(13) Results establish a revised expression for Young's modulus and show that either the stiffness tester or the torque meter will yield essentially the same measured values of bending properties.
(14) These findings indicate the necessity for using the same tester when effects of treatment are evaluated.
(15) To aid linkage analysis and mapping studies in Dictyostelium discoideum, we have constructed several tester strains with easily scored mutations characterizing the six currently identified linkage groups.
(16) Chromotest agar dishes yielded optimal results after 16-18 h incubation, presumably because of the agar growth characteristics of tester strain PQ37.
(17) The two strains were crossed individually to normal sequence tester strains and the sizes of the proximal and distal segments were followed by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis.
(18) Despite the strong, positive mutagenic response of fecanpentaenes using Ames tester strains TA 98 and TA 100, no increase in nuclear aberrations, taken as a measure of genotoxicity in colonic epithelial cells, was observed over control levels.
(19) The deficience can be restored, giving respiratory sufficience, in crosses with rho0 testers.
(20) The mutants have also been crossed to mit- testers with defined genetic lesions.