different between coin vs card

English

Etymology

From Middle English coyn, from Old French coigne (“wedge, cornerstone, die for stamping”), from Latin cuneus (“wedge”). Doublet of coign and cuneus. See also quoin (“cornerstone”). Displaced Middle English mynt, from Old English mynet, which was derived from Latin mon?ta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??n/
• Rhymes: -??n
• Homophones: coign, quoin

Noun

coin (countable and uncountable, plural coins)

1. (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...

2. A token used in a special establishment like a casino.

   Synonym: chip

3. (figuratively) That which serves for payment or recompense.
   • 1654, Henry Hammond, Of Fundamentals...

     The loss of every present advantage to flesh and blood is repaid in a nobler coin.

4. (uncountable, slang, Britain, US, African-American Vernacular) Money in general, not limited to coins.

   Synonyms: money; see also Thesaurus:money

   • 2014, Nicki Minaj, "Anaconda", The Pinkprint:

     Boy toy named Troy, used to live in Detroit, big dope dealer money he was getting some coin.

5. (card games) One of the suits of minor arcana in tarot, or a card of that suit.
6. A corner or external angle.

   Synonyms: wedge, quoin

7. A small circular slice of food.
   • 2015, Fodor's The Carolinas & Georgia

     For munchies try deep-fried jalapeño coins, jumbo Buffalo wings, and hush puppies with a sweet edge.

   • 2020, Evan Bloom, Rachel Levin, Eat Something (page 76)

     Spread out four bread and butter pickle coins on top, and sprinkle with onion.

8. (informal) A cryptocurrency.

Derived terms

• coinage
• coin of the realm
• euro coin

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ??? (koin)

Translations

Verb

coin (third-person singular simple present coins, present participle coining, simple past and past participle coined)

1. To make of a definite fineness, and convert into coins, as a mass of metal.

   Synonyms: mint, manufacture
2. (by extension) To make or fabricate.

   Synonyms: invent, originate
3. To acquire rapidly, as money; to make.

Derived terms

• coin it
• newcoin

Translations

Anagrams

• ICON, Nico, cion, coni, icon

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kw??/
• Homophone: coing

Etymology 1

From Old French coin, from Latin cuneus (“wedge”), from Proto-Indo-European *h??? (“sting”).

Noun

coin m (plural coins)

1. wedge, cornerpiece
2. corner
   • 2016, Joey Richardière, Une fille venue d'ailleurs, Chiado.

3. area, part, place, spot

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Imitative.

Interjection

coin

1. quack

Further reading

• “coin” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?n?/

Noun

coin

1. inflection of cú:
   1. (archaic) dative singular
   2. nominative/vocative/dative plural

Mutation

Middle English

Noun

coin

1. Alternative form of coyn (“coin, quoin”)

Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kon?/

Noun

coin

1. inflection of cú:
   1. accusative/dative singular
   2. nominative/vocative/accusative dual
   3. nominative plural

Mutation

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *kunes (compare Welsh c?n, Cornish keun).

Noun

coin m pl

1. plural of cù (“dog”)

Translingual

Symbol

card

1. (mathematics) cardinality

   Synonyms: #, |·|

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: kärd
  • (UK) IPA^(key): /k??d/, [k???d]
  • (US) IPA^(key): /k??d/, [k???d]
  • (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ka?d/, [k?ä?d]
  • (General New Zealand) IPA^(key): /k??d/, [k???d]
• Hyphenation: card
• Rhymes: -??(?)d

Etymology 1

From Middle English carde (“playing card”), from Old French carte, from Latin charta, from Ancient Greek ?????? (khárt?s, “paper, papyrus”). Doublet of chart.

Noun

card (countable and uncountable, plural cards)

1. A playing card.
2. (in the plural) Any game using playing cards; a card game.

3. A resource or an argument, used to achieve a purpose.
4. Any flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.
5. (obsolete) A map or chart.
6. (informal) An amusing or entertaining person, often slightly eccentric.
   • 2007, Meredith Gran, Octopus Pie #71: Deadpan

     MAREK: But really the deadpan is key. You can essentially trick people into laughing at nothing.

     EVE: Oh, Marek, you card.

7. A list of scheduled events or of performers or contestants.

8. (cricket) A tabular presentation of the key statistics of an innings or match: batsmen’s scores and how they were dismissed, extras, total score and bowling figures.
9. (computing) A removable electronic device that may be inserted into a powered electronic device to provide additional capability.

10. A greeting card.

11. A business card.

12. (television) A title card or intertitle: a piece of filmed, printed text edited into the midst of the photographed action at various points, generally to convey character dialogue or descriptive narrative material related to the plot.
13. A test card.
14. (dated) A published note, containing a brief statement, explanation, request, expression of thanks, etc.

15. (dated) A printed programme.
16. (dated, figuratively, by extension) An attraction or inducement.

17. A paper on which the points of the compass are marked; the dial or face of the mariner's compass.
18. (weaving) A perforated pasteboard or sheet-metal plate for warp threads, making part of the Jacquard apparatus of a loom.
19. An indicator card.

Hyponyms

• (piece of plastic): affinity card, credit card, debit card

Derived terms

Descendants

Translations

See also

Verb

card (third-person singular simple present cards, present participle carding, simple past and past participle carded)

1. (US) To check IDs, especially against a minimum age requirement.
2. (dated) To play cards.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Johnson to this entry?)

3. (golf) To make (a stated score), as recorded on a scoring card.

Translations

References

Etymology 2

From Middle English carde, Old French carde, from Old Occitan carda, deverbal from cardar, from Late Latin *carito, from Latin car? (“to comb with a card”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut”).

Noun

card (countable and uncountable, plural cards)

1. (uncountable, dated) Material with embedded short wire bristles.
2. (dated, textiles) A comb- or brush-like device or tool to raise the nap on a fabric.
3. (textiles) A hand-held tool formed similarly to a hairbrush but with bristles of wire or other rigid material. It is used principally with raw cotton, wool, hair, or other natural fibers to prepare these materials for spinning into yarn or thread on a spinning wheel, with a whorl or other hand-held spindle. The card serves to untangle, clean, remove debris from, and lay the fibers straight.
4. (dated, textiles) A machine for disentangling the fibres of wool prior to spinning.
5. A roll or sliver of fibre (as of wool) delivered from a carding machine.

Translations

Verb

card (third-person singular simple present cards, present participle carding, simple past and past participle carded)

1. (textiles) To use a carding device to disentangle the fibres of wool prior to spinning.
2. To scrape or tear someone’s flesh using a metal comb, as a form of torture.
3. (transitive) To comb with a card; to cleanse or disentangle by carding.
   • (Can we find and add a quotation of Dyer to this entry?)
4. (obsolete, transitive, figuratively) To clean or clear, as if by using a card.
5. (obsolete, transitive) To mix or mingle, as with an inferior or weaker article.

Translations

Etymology 3

Noun

card (plural cards)

1. Abbreviation of cardinal (“songbird”).

Anagrams

• CADR, DARC, Drac, cadr

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin carduus.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?ka?t/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?kart/
• Rhymes: -a?t
• Homophone: kart

Noun

card m (plural cards)

1. thistle

Derived terms

• card marí
• card vermell
• cardar
• cardó

Further reading

• “card” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English card, from Middle English carde, from Old French carte, from Latin charta, from Ancient Greek ?????? (khárt?s). Doublet of carta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kard/

Noun

card f (invariable)

1. card (identification, financial, SIM etc, but not playing card)

See also

• scheda