Coin vs Goin - What's the difference?
coin | goin |
(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
* {{quote-book, year=1870, author=Various, title=Punchinello, Vol. II., No. 34, November 19, 1870, chapter=, edition=
, passage=I see they was goin , so I said:-- "My week-minded and misgided femails, hold your hosses a minnit, until an old statesman, who has served his country for 4 yeer as Gustise of the Peece, says a few remarks to you." }}
* {{quote-book, year=1905, author=George Bernard Shaw, title=The Irrational Knot, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Youre goin on fit to raise the street." " }}
* {{quote-news, year=1994, date=April 29, author=Michael Dolan, title=Nixon in Hell, work=Chicago Reader
, passage=Now I got nothing goin on but a fockin ping-pong tournament with Kurt Cobain, who fockin cheats, man, like it's gonna do him any fockin good. }}
As a proper noun coin
is a city in iowa.As a verb goin is
.coin
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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 ----goin
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