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What is the difference between coin and change ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
What is the difference between coin and change ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
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Coin is only one coin, change refers to many coins.
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@tothemax How about coins and change? same?
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\ ˈkȯin \
Definition of coin (Entry 1 of 3)
1 archaic
a : CORNER, CORNERSTONE, QUOIN
b : WEDGE
2a : a usually flat piece of metal issued by governmental authority as money
b : metal money
c : something resembling a coin especially in shape
d : a unit of a cryptocurrency
I also caution market participants against promoting or touting the offer and sale of coins without first determining whether the securities laws apply to those actions.
— Jay Clayton
3 : something used as if it were money (as in verbal or intellectual exchange)
perhaps wisecracks … are respectable literary coin in the U.S.
— The Times Literary Supplement (London)
would repay him with the full coin of his mind
— Ian Fleming
4 : something having two different and usually opposing sides —usually used in the phrase the other side of the coin
5 informal : MONEY
I'm in it for the coin
— Sinclair Lewis
coin verb
coined; coining; coins
Definition of coin (Entry 2 of 3)
transitive verb
1a : to make (a coin) especially by stamping : MINT
b : to convert (metal) into coins
2 : CREATE, INVENT
coin a phrase
coin money
: to get rich quickly
coin adjective
Definition of coin (Entry 3 of 3)
1 : of or relating to coins
2 : operated by coins
Change is what you receive when you buy something and hand the cashier a larger amount of money that the price of the goods. Coin is a general term for money. It has several definitions. (See above)
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