Define the word Dime"Dime" gcide "The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48"
Dime \Dime\ (d[imac]m), n. [F. d[^i]me tithe, OF. disme, fr. L.
decimus the tenth, fr. decem ten. See Decimal.]
A silver coin of the United States, of the value of ten
cents; the tenth of a dollar.
[1913 Webster]
Dime novel, a novel, commonly sensational and trashy, which
is sold for a dime, or ten cents; -- they were popular
from ca. 1850 to ca. 1920. Sometimes the term is still
applied to any novel of the type, though the price has
greatly increased.
[1913 Webster +PJC]
"dime" wn "WordNet (r) 2.0"
dime
n 1: a United States coin worth one tenth of a dollar
2: street name for a packet of illegal drugs that is sold for
ten dollars [syn: dime bag]
"dime" moby-thes "Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0"
49 Moby Thesaurus words for "dime":
C, C-note, G, G-note, buck, cartwheel, cent, century, copper,
dollar, dollar bill, fifty cents, fin, fish, five cents,
five hundred dollars, five-dollar bill, five-hundred-dollar bill,
five-spot, fiver, four bits, frogskin, grand, half G, half a C,
half dollar, half grand, hundred-dollar bill, iron man, mill,
nickel, penny, quarter, red cent, sawbuck, silver dollar, skin,
smacker, ten cents, ten-spot, tenner, thousand dollars,
thousand-dollar bill, twenty-dollar bill, twenty-five cents,
two bits, two-dollar bill, two-spot, yard
"dime" vera "Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002)"
DIME
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"dime" vera "Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002)"
DIME
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"DIME" bouvier "Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)"
DIME, money. A silver coin of the United States, of the value of one-tenth
part of a dollar or ten cents.
2. It weighs forty-one and a quarter grains. Of one thousand parts,
nine hundred are of pure silver and one hundred of alloy. Act of January 18,
1837, s. 8 and 9, 4 Sharsw. cont. of Story's L. U. S. 2523-4.
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