Dime
[daɪm]
Definition
(n.) A silver coin of the United States, of the value of ten cents; the tenth of a dollar.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Ten cents.
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Definition
n. the tenth part of an American dollar 10 cents nearly equal to 5d.—Dime museum a cheap show; Dime novel a cheap novel usually sensational.
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Examples
- His spe cial pride was in having determined the relative dime nsions of the sphere and the enclosing cylinder. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Dime; no ves aquel caballero que hacia nosotros viene sobre un caballo rucio rodado que trae puesto en la cabeza un yelmo de oro? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
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