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Coin vs Cion - What's the difference?

coin | cion |

As a proper noun coin

is a city in iowa.

As a noun cion is

(chiefly|in botanical senses).

coin

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (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)
    • ...the coins were of all countries and sizes - doubloons, and louis d'ors, and guineas, and pieces of eight...
  • A token used in a special establishment like a casino (also called a chip).
  • (figurative) That which serves for payment or recompense.
  • * Hammond
    • The loss of present advantage to flesh and blood is repaid in a nobler coin .
  • One of the suits of minor arcana in tarot, or a card of that suit.
  • A quoin; a corner or external angle; a wedge.

    • Derived terms

    * coinage

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make of a definite fineness, and convert into coins, as a mass of metal; to mint; to manufacture.
    • to coin''' silver dollars; to '''coin a medal
  • To make or fabricate; to invent; to originate.
    • Over the last century the advance in science has led to many new words being coined .
  • * Dryden
    • Some tale, some new pretense, he daily coined , / To soothe his sister and delude her mind.
  • To acquire rapidly, as money; to make.
  • * John Locke
    • Tenants cannot coin rent just at quarter day.

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    cion

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (chiefly, in botanical senses)
  • * 1621–1626' (published posthumously in '''1627 ): , ''Sylva Sylvarum?:?or, A Natural History?;?in ten centuries'', century V, ''Experiments in consort touching the putting back or retardation of germination , ¶?421; reprinted in:
  • * 1838 , The works of Lord Bacon?:?with an introductory essay, and a portrait?;?in two volumes , volume 1, page 133 (London?:?William Ball, Paternoster Row?;?stereotyped and printed by John Childs and son)
    • 421.?Men have entertained a conceit that showeth prettily?;?namely, that if you graft a late-coming fruit upon a stock of a fruit-tree that cometh early, the graft will bear early?;?as a peach upon a cherry?;?and contrariwise, if an early-coming fruit upon a stock of a fruit-tree that cometh late, the graft will bear fruit late?;?as a cherry upon a peach.?But these are but imaginations, and untrue.?The cause is, for that the cion overruleth the stock quite?:?and the stock is but passive only, and giveth aliment, but no motion to the graft.

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