Raccoon vs Coin - What's the difference?
raccoon | coin |
A nocturnal omnivore native to North America, typically with a mixture of gray, brown, and black fur, a mask-like marking around the eyes and a striped tail; Procyon lotor .
* 1624 , John Smith, Generall Historie , in Kupperman 1988, p. 64:
* 2010 , Charlie Brooker, "Screen Burn", The Guardian , 3 Apr 2010:
Any mammal of the genus Procyon .
Any mammal of the subfamily Procyoninae, a procyonine.
Any mammal of the family Procyonidae, a procyonid.
(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
As nouns the difference between raccoon and coin
is that raccoon is a nocturnal omnivore native to North America, typically with a mixture of gray, brown, and black fur, a mask-like marking around the eyes and a striped tail; Procyon lotor 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 a verb 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.raccoon
English
(wikipedia raccoon)Alternative forms
* racoon * rarowcun * r'coon (colloquial contraction)Noun
(en noun)- Before a fire upon a seat like a bedsted, he sat covered with a great robe, made of Rarowcun skinnes, and all the tayles hanging by.
- Thus we're presented witha man who has the head of his penis bitten off by a raccoon , then bleeds to death in a forest.
Synonyms
* (Procyon lotor) coon (colloquial), (common raccoon), (North American raccoon), northern raccoonDerived terms
* coon * coon dog * coonhound * (Cozumel raccoon) * crab-eating raccoon * in a raccoon's age / in a coon's age * (pygmy raccoon) * (raccoon butterfly) * (raccoon butterflyfish), * raccoon dog * raccoon eyescoin
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.