to coin
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- verb
- /kɔɪn/
:
acuñar
- McLuhan is also credited with coining the term global village, and his prediction has proven to be accurate.
- to coin a term
- to coin a phrase
- to coin a word
And and he's the one who coined the term philosophy.
- And and he's the one who coined the term philosophy.
- And so the the term that we coined is creative avoidance.
- And then Ian McKay from Minor Threat coined that phrase.
- Scholar Bernadette Atuahene coins the term predatory cities.
- And my friend, pollster Whit Ayres coined a term which is really good here.
- Like, yeah, he, he coined the term schizophrenia.
- This is the name I've coined for when men or anybody.
- He would, he sort of has coined that in a world thing.
- And he thinks he just coined it last week.
Examples
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When Tim Berners-Lee introduced the Semantic Web, he coined the term "linked data."
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In fact, Wheeler was the one who coined the phrase black hole, too.
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And he thinks he just coined it last week.
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The press coined that one.
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We have coined the term "decisions under uncertainty".
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And in fact, we coined this term SNGFR.
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Along the way she coined the term radioactivity.
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And so the the term that we coined is creative avoidance.
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I googled around and there was no name for it so I coined it.
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The author coined the term "social media" to describe new ways of communication.
Synonyms
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3.1
To make something new that did not exist before
To make a new word for an idea and use it in a language
Idioms
Treat someone in the same bad way they treated you
Phrasal Verbs
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Etymology
The verb coin first meant 'to stamp metal money' and then came to mean 'to create' a new word or phrase, as if you were stamping it into the language. So to coin a phrase is to make a new word as if you had just minted it.