coining [
kɔɪn]
[机] 压模印
- An engraved metal piece used for impressing a design onto a softer metal, as in coining money.
金属模子一种用于镌刻的金属件,可将设计好的图案压印到较软的金属上,例如压制货币 - Brian works overtime and has an evening job; he must be coining it.
布赖恩常常加班,并且晚上还有兼职,他一定在发财了。 - The machine only accepts 10p coins.
这机器只收10便士的硬币.
Coin \Coin\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Coined} (koind); p. pr. & vb.
n. {Coining}.]
1. To make of a definite fineness, and convert into coins, as
a mass of metal; to mint; to manufacture; as, to coin
silver dollars; to coin a medal.
2. To make or fabricate; to invent; to originate; as, to coin
a word.
Some tale, some new pretense, he daily coined,
To soothe his sister and delude her mind. --Dryden.
3. To acquire rapidly, as money; to make.
Tenants cannot coin rent just at quarter day.
--Locke.
- Most, like the Federal Reserve, create money by "coining" government securities into paper money and bank reserves.
- Young wrote that Iowa State coeds are "a breed which has led to the coining of such terms as `Moo U' and the `Iowa Hip Disease.'