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Option vs Coin - What's the difference?

option | coin |

As nouns the difference between option and coin

is that option is one of the choices which can be made while 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.

As verbs the difference between option and coin

is that option is to purchase an option on something while 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.

option

English

(wikipedia option)

Noun

(en noun)
  • One of the choices which can be made.
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  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2012-01
    • , author=Steven Sloman , title=The Battle Between Intuition and Deliberation , volume=100, issue=1, page=74 , magazine= citation , passage=Libertarian paternalism is the view that, because the way options' are presented to citizens affects what they choose, society should present ' options in a way that “nudges” our intuitive selves to make choices that are more consistent with what our more deliberative selves would have chosen if they were in control.}}
  • The freedom or right to choose.
  • (finance)(legal) A contract giving the holder the right to buy or sell an asset at a set strike price; can apply to financial market transactions, or to ordinary transactions for tangible assets such as a residence or automobile.
  • (graphical user interface) A button on a screen used to select an action (often "menu option")

    • Synonyms

    * alternative * choice * possibility * See also

    Hyponyms

    * (finance) (A contract giving the holder the right to buy or sell an asset) American option, Bermudan option, European option, call option or call, put option or put, warrant

    Derived terms

    * optionable * optional * stock option

    Related terms

    * opt * optimal * optimise, optimize * optimism * optimist * optimistic

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To purchase an option on something.
    • The new novel was optioned by the film studio, but they'll probably never decide to make a movie from it.

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    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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