coining
present participle ofcoin
| 单词 | coining |
| 释义 | coining present participle ofcoin coin verb uk/kɔɪn/us/kɔɪn/coinverb(INVENT)C2[T] toinventa new word orexpression, or to use one in aparticularway for the firsttime: Allen Ginsberg coined theterm"flowerpower". Inventing, designing and innovation
coinverb(MONEY)coining it (in)UKinformal to beearninga lot ofmoneyquickly Earning money
Idiomto coin a phrase Examplesofcoiningcoining In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. What strategies did he employ incoininglexical items? From theCambridge English Corpus They are all either made out of run-of-the-mill material or depend upon currently fashionable devices forcoiningnew expressions. From theCambridge English Corpus Coiningunique terminology to name the fruits of their collective labors was a product of coastal dwellers communicating as they exchanged their newly fabricated technology. From theCambridge English Corpus Overture, fashionable rubbish with the last bitcoiningfirst. From theCambridge English Corpus The second par t focuses on structure - that is, syntax and morphology - as well as thecoiningof new words by young children. From theCambridge English Corpus He used other sources and means to aid him in the task ofcoiningnew words. From theCambridge English Corpus In this book she introduces a new category to medieval studies bycoiningthe term ' imaginative theology ' to indicate literary and artistic fictions that engaged with religious subjects. From theCambridge English Corpus Left, the abstracted largescale 'coining' where the new building abuts another. From theCambridge English Corpus Spencer's sociological analysis reached deeper than hiscoiningof 'the survival of the fittest' (in 1862) might suggest. From theCambridge English Corpus They are a convenient means ofcoininga name for a concept by contracting a series of words that express the basic essentials of the concept. From theCambridge English Corpus Freedman tries to escape from his difficulties bycoiningyet another term-evolved or phylogenetically adaptive behaviour. From theCambridge English Corpus Thecoiningof the term 'natural hazard' within the social/environmental sciences has likewise refocused attention from the peculiar or one-off event to the normative condition which 'disaster' ruptures. From theCambridge English Corpus I had a case brought to my notice where a small sum wascoininginto a sailor's home. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Furthermore, a childcoiningbefore a hearing is not within the criminal court system, and bears no stigma of having been before a court. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 The closest comparison to be drawn would, of course, be with books, magazines or newspapers, hence thecoiningof the term "electronic publishing". From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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