different between coin vs cone

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”)

English

Etymology

From Middle French cone, from Latin conus (“cone, wedge, peak”), from Ancient Greek ????? (kônos, “cone, spinning top, pine cone”)

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /k??n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ko?n/
• Rhymes: -??n

Noun

cone (plural cones)

1. (geometry) A surface of revolution formed by rotating a segment of a line around another line that intersects the first line.
2. (geometry) A solid of revolution formed by rotating a triangle around one of its altitudes.
3. (topology) A space formed by taking the direct product of a given space with a closed interval and identifying all of one end to a point.
4. Anything shaped like a cone.
6. The fruit of a conifer.
7. A cone-shaped flower head of various plants, such as banksias and proteas.
8. An ice cream cone.
9. A traffic cone
10. A unit of volume, applied solely to marijuana and only while it is in a smokable state; roughly 1.5 cubic centimetres, depending on use.
11. (anatomy) Any of the small cone-shaped structures in the retina.
12. (slang) The bowl piece on a bong.
13. (slang) The process of smoking cannabis in a bong.
14. (slang) A cone-shaped cannabis joint.
15. (slang) A passenger on a cruise ship (so-called by employees after traffic cones, from the need to navigate around them)
16. (category theory) An object V together with an arrow going from V to each object of a diagram such that for any arrow A in the diagram, the pair of arrows from V which subtend A also commute with it. (Then V can be said to be the cone’s vertex and the diagram which the cone subtends can be said to be its base.)

    Hyponym: limit

17. A shell of the genus Conus, having a conical form.
18. A set of formal languages with certain desirable closure properties, in particular those of the regular languages, the context-free languages and the recursively enumerable languages.

Synonyms

• (geometry): conical surface
• (ice cream cone): cornet, ice cream cone

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

See also

• quean
• queen

Verb

cone (third-person singular simple present cones, present participle coning, simple past and past participle coned)

1. (transitive) To fashion into the shape of a cone.
2. (intransitive) To form a cone shape.
   • 1971, United States. Congress. House Appropriations, Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations for 1972 (part 3, page 69)

     Under the old method the material coned at the bottom of the borehole and as a result it would not go under houses and buildings.

3. (frequently followed by "off") To segregate or delineate an area using traffic cones

References

Anagrams

• Coen, Econ., Noce, ceno-, coen-, cœn-, econ, econ., once

Bourguignon

Etymology

From Latin cornua.

Noun

cone f (plural cones)

1. horn

Latin

Noun

c?ne

1. vocative singular of c?nus

References

• cone in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

Portuguese

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)1560s, from Middle French cone (16c.) or directly from Latin conus "a cone, peak of a helmet," from Greek konos "cone, spinning top, pine cone," perhaps from PIE root *ko- "to sharpen" (cognates: Sanskrit sanah "whetstone," Latin catus "sharp," Old English han "stone").

Noun

cone m (plural cones)

1. (geometry, etc.) cone (conical shape)