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Impression vs Coining - What's the difference?

impression | coining |

As nouns the difference between impression and coining

is that impression is the indentation or depression made by the pressure of one object on or into another while coining is (uncountable) a form of alternative medicine from southeast asia where a coin is rubbed vigorously on a patient's oiled skin.

As a verb coining is

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impression

English

(wikipedia impression)

Noun

(en noun)
  • The indentation or depression made by the pressure of one object on or into another.
  • The overall effect of something, e.g., on a person.
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=1 , passage=The stories did not seem to me to touch life. […] They left me with the impression of a well-delivered stereopticon lecture, with characters about as life-like as the shadows on the screen, and whisking on and off, at the mercy of the operator.}}
  • A vague recalling of an event, a belief.
  • An impersonation, an imitation of the mannerisms of another individual.
  • An outward appearance.
  • (advertising) An online advertising performance metric representing an instance where an ad. is shown once.
  • (painting) The first coat of colour, such as the priming in house-painting etc.
  • (engraving) A print on paper from a wood block, metal plate, etc.

    • Related terms

    * impressionability * impressionable * impressional * impressionism * impressionist * impressive * under the impression

    Anagrams

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    coining

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

  • (uncountable) A form of alternative medicine from Southeast Asia where a coin is rubbed vigorously on a patient's oiled skin.
  • (countable, linguistics) A newly created word or phrase
  • *{{quote-book
    • , year=1783 , author=Hugh Blair , editor=George Edward Griffiths , title=The Monthly Review , volume=68 , section=Art. V. Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres. citation , page= 499 , passage=Poetry admits of greater latitude than pro?e, which with re?pect to coining , or, at lea?t, new-compounding words; yet, even here, this liberty ?hould be u?ed with a ?paring hand. }}
  • *{{quote-book
    • , year=1989 , author=Horsley, G.H.R. , title=New Documents Illustrating Early Christianity , volume=5 , chapter=The Greek Documentary Evidence and NT Lexical Study: Some Soundings citation , isbn=9780858376366 , page=77 , passage=Once we move into the Patristic period, there is undoubted evidence for new coinings of words (particularly compounds) as a response to the needs of the theological debates which occurred.}}
  • *{{quote-book
    • , year= 2009 , author=Kristin Denham, Anne Lobeck , title=Linguistics for Everyone: An Introduction , chapter=Morphological Typology and Word Formation citation , isbn=9781413015898 , page= 194 , passage=Coinings' or neologisms are words that have recently been created. [...] True ' coinings , which are completely new words, are rather rare relative to the vast number of words we create by means of the other word formation processes.}}

    Synonyms

    * (newly created word) neologism