Penny vs Russia - What's the difference?
penny | russia |
(lb) In the United Kingdom and Ireland, a copper coin worth 1/240 of a pound sterling or Irish pound before decimalisation. Abbreviation: d.
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*:Thanks to that penny he had just spent so recklessly [on a newspaper] he would pass a happy hour, taken, for once, out of his anxious, despondent, miserable self. It irritated him shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen.
In the United Kingdom, a copper coin worth 1/100 of a pound sterling.
(lb) In Ireland, a coin worth 1/100 of an Irish pound before the introduction of the euro. Abbreviation: p.
In the US and Canada, a one-cent coin, worth 1/100 of a dollar. Abbreviation: .
In various countries, a small-denomination copper or brass coin.
A unit of nail size, said to be either the cost per 100 nails, or the number of nails per penny. Abbreviation: d.
Money in general.
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*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:What penny hath Rome borne, / What men provided, what munition sent?
(slang) To jam a door shut by inserting pennies between the doorframe and the door.
(electronics) To circumvent the tripping of an electrical circuit breaker by the dangerous practice of inserting a coin in place of a fuse in a fuse socket.
A country in Eastern Europe and Northern Asia. The Country extends from the Gulf of Finland to the Pacific Ocean, and was part of the USSR from 1922 to 1991. Co-official name - Russian Federation,'' formerly the ''Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic'' (RSFSR), Capital and largest city ''Moscow
(historical, informal) The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (a very common name, although more formally Russia, the RSFSR, was one of several constituent republics of the USSR).
(historical) The Russian Empire.
(historical, dated) Rus, the medieval East Slavic state.
(dated, countable) Any of several East Slavic states descended from the Rus, typically including Russia (Great Russia), Belarus (White Russia) and Ukraine (Little Russia or Kievan Russia).
*1842 , George Eliot, "Letter to Cara Bray", Selections from George Eliot's letters , page 24:
As proper nouns the difference between penny and russia
is that penny is a diminutive of the female given name penelope while russia is russia.penny
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Noun
(en-noun)Usage notes
The plural is used for other cases, in particular when referring to multiple individual coins.Synonyms
* old penny * new penny (old-fashioned ) * (one-cent coin) centDerived terms
* a bad penny always turns up * bad penny * eightpenny nail * fourpenny nail * * pence * penniless * penny ante * penny arcade * penny dreadful * penny-farthing * penny for one's thoughts * penny pincher * penny wedding * penny whistle * pretty penny * sixpenny nail * tenpenny nail * watch the penniesVerb
- Zach and Ben had only been at college for a week when their door was pennied by the girls down the hall.
See also
* d * the penny drops English nouns with irregular plurals ----russia
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(wikipedia Russia)Proper noun
(en proper noun)- Or rather if I be attaining a better autocratship than that of the Emperor of all the Russias – the empire over self.
