Coin vs Banknote - What's the difference?
coin | banknote |
(money) A piece of currency, usually metallic and in the shape of a disc, but sometimes polygonal, or with a hole in the middle.
* 1883: (Robert Louis Stevenson), (Treasure Island)
A token used in a special establishment like a casino (also called a chip).
(figurative) That which serves for payment or recompense.
* Hammond
One of the suits of minor arcana in tarot, or a card of that suit.
A quoin; a corner or external angle; a wedge.
To make of a definite fineness, and convert into coins, as a mass of metal; to mint; to manufacture.
To make or fabricate; to invent; to originate.
* Dryden
To acquire rapidly, as money; to make.
* John Locke
A piece of paper currency.
(historical) A demand note issued by private banks presumably backed up by gold or silver coin.
As nouns the difference between coin and banknote
is that coin is a piece of currency, usually metallic and in the shape of a disc, but sometimes polygonal, or with a hole in the middle while banknote is a piece of paper currency.As a verb coin
is to make of a definite fineness, and convert into coins, as a mass of metal; to mint; to manufacture.As a proper noun Coin
is a city in Iowa.coin
English
Noun
(en noun)- ...the coins were of all countries and sizes - doubloons, and louis d'ors, and guineas, and pieces of eight...
- The loss of present advantage to flesh and blood is repaid in a nobler coin .
Derived terms
* coinageVerb
(en verb)- to coin''' silver dollars; to '''coin a medal
- Over the last century the advance in science has led to many new words being coined .
- Some tale, some new pretense, he daily coined , / To soothe his sister and delude her mind.
- Tenants cannot coin rent just at quarter day.