I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a stamp/coin/book/glass etc collection
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an impressive Roman coin collection
coin a term (= invent it )
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Funk coined the term ‘vitamin’ in 1912.
flip of a coin
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In the end the decision was made by the flip of a coin .
flipped...coin
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We flipped a coin to see who would go first.
The toss of a coin
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The toss of a coin decided who would go first.
tossed...coin
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They tossed a coin to decide who would go first.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
gold
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He had felt them - round swelling lumps the size of gold coins .
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Investigators raid a house looking for missing gold coins and platinum bars.
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I paid in gold coins and got change in jewels, amethysts in gold mounts.
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He sat on the market until it puked gold coins .
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The coins are still the most widely traded gold bullion coin on the world's secondary bullion market.
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As he is about to bury the gold coins , his imbecile brother Jacob appears, pitchfork in hand.
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Sales of gold coins are soaring.
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The wizard uncurled his stinging fist and the roll of gold coins slipped between his throbbing fingers.
roman
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The Roman coins showed the head and inscription of the Emperor.
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Many people spend years detecting without ever finding Roman coins .
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Research Please can you identify this Roman coin for me?
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I issue a monthly list, with the main emphasis on Roman coins .
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In his bedroom he had a collection of Roman coins .
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Finds of Roman coins and pottery within the graveyard may indicate a similar relationship.
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Coins date: Roman coins unearthed in Malton will go on show at the town's museum from April 18.
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This is by far the largest cache of Roman coins to be uncovered in Britain since the eighteenth century.
silver
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She opened her hand and looked at the two silver coins .
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They also found my comb, a purse with several gold and silver coins , my gun and bullets.
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The beady, little eyes softened as Cranston displayed his warrant, a silver coin lying on top of it.
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She took two silver coins out of the tin then put it where it could only be found by her.
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Coaches of silver spoons, coins and other treasures will be displayed to complement the Civil War exhibition.
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Mandeville fished in his purse and brought out a silver coin , rolling it in his fingers.
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More silver coins than any of us would find in a lifetime, all into the melting-pot.
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Both rely on something lost being found, a sheep in the first parable and a silver coin in the second.
■ NOUN
pound
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She bought six first-class stamps, took a pound coin from her purse and went into the automatic photo booth.
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Cut into four pieces and roll each one to the thickness of a pound coin .
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He inserted a pound coin , pushed the button - and nothing emerged.
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Nevertheless, one pound coins are still lost at a rate of tens of thousands per year.
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George moved to stand on my foot just as Katy discovered a pound coin and Christopher yelled it was his.
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And approaching that very machine, his last pound coin clutched in his fist, was Felix Henderson McMurdo.
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He had a couple of ten pound coins , barely enough for a cup of tea.
purse
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I accept the coin purse , which is warm from her hand.
■ VERB
collect
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Mostly we collected coins , but there were an awful lot of them.
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The task is to collect coins and to tip up the tortoises and spiders that crawl out of the pipes along the platforms.
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He collected up the coins and put them back into his trouser pocket.
count
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The driver counts the coins into his tin.
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He took it and laughed as he counted the few coins .
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Impressed by their studiousness, we carefully counted out some coins , making sure each boy got the same amount.
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The bus stopped at the traffic lights and I could see him counting his £1 coins .
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We blunted our fingers counting coins in those days.
date
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To date a coin or an artifact is not the same thing as to date the context in which it is found.
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Although dating and attributing coins to mints require different methods, the preliminary step is the same in both cases.
drop
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One is that, on the second occasion, you drop the coin on the floor.
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We listened, and dropped coins .
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She dropped a one-pound coin on the table to pay for the smashed saucer.
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Carradine dropped a few coins - ducats, I think - into the puddle and waved the woman away.
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If a cure was achieved then patients were permitted to drop gold or silver coins into the sacred spring.
find
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I found some coins and gave them to him, surprised by the formality of his thanks.
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In the left-hand pocket he found two tarnished coins of a kind he'd never seen before.
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Many people spend years detecting without ever finding Roman coins .
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If they found the coins they might put two and two together.
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He fished in his pocket until he found a coin .
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I went cheerfully through, finding the coins as I went.
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More usefully, I found coins and notes on the dressing-table, and pocketed them.
flip
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Given those odds, claims Salsburg, one might as well flip a coin .
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The customer wanted to flip a coin about paying the price for a photo of his daughter.
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If memory serves, we actually went into the hall and flipped a coin .
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Eddie DeBartolo and Carmen Policy: Flip a coin .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
two sides of the same coin
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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I used to collect coins when I was a kid.
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The word "yuppie" is a coinage of the 1960s which found a new fame in the 1980s.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A couple of coins landed on the frosty road.
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At the last moment the U.K. managed to push through an optional exemption of archaeological goods such as coins.
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Impressed by their studiousness, we carefully counted out some coins, making sure each boy got the same amount.
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The depictions on paper money and coins reinforce national icons and symbols.
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The driver counts the coins into his tin.
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The range of denominations A second way of looking at coins is to examine the denominations in which they were made.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
term
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The extent of the commitment was best seen in the New Look, a term Eisenhower coined to describe his military policy.
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In 1965 the term soliton was coined to describe waves with this remarkable behaviour.
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They are Luddites well over a century before the term was coined .
word
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He published a book on the subject in 1928 entitled Aromatherapie, thus coining the word which has been used ever since.
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In our newfound realisation, we have coined the word holistic to summarise this concept.
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Galois, it is usually said, coined the word group at this time and introduced the concept of normal subgroup.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A Polish refugee coined the term "genocide" to describe attempts to kill an entire group of people.
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Freed was the disk jockey who coined the term "rock 'n' roll."
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The term "black hole" was coined in 1969 by the American scientist John Wheeler.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And the newcomers never stopped coining.
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But in later years I heard it called the Perilous Chair, and I think the name was coined after that day.
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He was going to have fun if it killed him, to coin a phrase.
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I coined it but my good friend Will Shakespeare seized it for himself.
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In a school gymnasium full of caucus-goers in Des Moines, Dole inadvertently coined the best phrase of this perplexing campaign.