Coined vs Chined - What's the difference?
coined | chined |
(coin)
(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
Pertaining to, or having, a chine, or backbone; used in composition.
* Beaumont and Fletcher
(obsolete) Broken in the back.
* Beaumont and Fletcher
As a verb coined
is (coin).As an adjective chined is
pertaining to, or having, a chine, or backbone; used in composition.coined
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
* *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.
Anagrams
* * * 1000 English basic words ----chined
English
Adjective
(-)- He's chined , goodman.