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Definition of dime in English: dimenoun dʌɪmdaɪm North American 1A ten-cent coin. 〈北美〉十分硬币 Example sentencesExamples - The woman's face fell as Anne counted out exact change from her mass of nickels, dimes, pennies, and quarters.
- Now bring something else to the community or stop asking us to spend our hard earned pennies, nickels and dimes to buy this type of trash.
- Here we have ten coins: pennies, nickels, and dimes.
- Pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters were carefully counted.
- I supposed it was good that he'd paid because I only had a loonie and a dime in my pocket.
- If Jimmy saves 4 dimes in his piggy bank every day, how many dimes will he save in five days?
- It has separate pouches for pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters.
- For the change-making task, three quarters, seven dimes, and seven nickels are placed in front of the patient, who then is asked to provide one dollar in change.
- People often count change by grouping pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters, a tendency indicating that, without practice, working memory can deal with only one item at a time.
- You have five quarters, two nickels, three dimes and a penny in your pocket.
- Staring down into it you could see the shiny bronze pennies and silver dimes lying at the bottom.
- Then try alternating pennies and dimes and see what happens.
- Instead of replacing the popular dime with another coin, it's also possible to see whether the addition of a fifth coin would help.
- Suddenly, the nickels, dimes, pennies, and quarters started flying.
- She's more fond of pennies and dimes than quarters.
- And then she came and sat with me, next to a reflection pool that had been emptied of water, but whose cement floor was scattered with pennies and dimes turned blue from chlorine.
- Using the same group of coins, help your child make a pile of pennies to equal a nickel, nickels to equal a dime, and so on.
- My son collects my change - the random coins that come from little daily transactions, the pennies, nickels and dimes that build up in my pockets.
- The first day he had poured out his accumulated pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters onto the table in front of his sister, his face had beamed with pride at his contribution.
- She began digging through her cracked plastic coin purse, slapping quarters and dimes on the counter.
- 1.1informal A small amount of money.
〈非正式〉小钱，少量的钱 他一点钱都没有。 Example sentencesExamples - Why did so many investors put so much money behind so many companies that had never made a dime?
- After all, no matter who goes first overall or who slides into the second half of the first round, you're not going to see a dime of that money, and neither am I.
- He stops speaking to May and refuses to contribute a dime to her education.
- That's a lot of loot for a pair of companies that have yet to make a dime in profits.
- The exact economics may be beyond me, but I suspect neither one of us will be saving a dime on this tax cut.
- Sure, he got his contingency fee, but the families wouldn't have gotten a dime without his help, and in many cases, they would need millions to care for their chronically ill children.
- We bought our house by borrowing $100,000 from his parents' retirement fund and have not paid back a dime - another nightmare.
- But its minority investors never saw a dime in profit.
- I'm an outsider, un-American for not contributing a dime to the $40-billion-a-year diet industry.
- Inspectors have the right to pop any locks (and you won't get a dime in compensation; they're allowed to do it by law).
- He figured that he might as well live till the whole sham is over, this way he won't have to spend a dime of his new found, hard earned money.
- They hardly spent a dime, whereas I spent money so fast, I almost ran out of credit cards.
- The two things people need to keep in mind is that we are talking small amounts of money and you cannot afford to lose a dime.
- The vast majority of dot-coms will never see a dime of profits.
- Without a dime of government money we are turning thousands of people per month into independent homeowners.
- ‘This has been a large front-end expenditure for us before we even see a dime of revenues from the settlement,’ he says.
- Not a dime of the money stays where it nominally is.
- Even if you never spend a dime of the reserve, the tax savings on your contributions ensure you'll be no worse off than if you hadn't enrolled.
- Any money goes to people who previously bought the stock for pennies; the company doesn't get a dime.
- The hub deal especially contrasts with the down-and-dirty business of having to bet a billion dollars on a vehicle program that may never produce a dime of profits.
Phrasesinformal Very common and of no particular value. 〈非正式〉一毛钱买一打的，常见而不值钱的 experts in this field are a dime a dozen 这方面的专家一抓一大把。 Example sentencesExamples - Now they are a dime a dozen - available at malls and departmental grocery shops, with prices ranging from Rs 100 onwards for miniature versions.
- Handsome, dedicated and dangerous young men were a dime a dozen in Ireland, and his frequently dismissive treatment of women didn't help.
- Ideas are a dime a dozen, but great execution is priceless.
- If they weren't so hard to come by, they'd be a dime a dozen.
- Tales like these are a dime a dozen, and all have one thing in common: I don't want to hear them.
- But the passion of idiot youth will have it's way, and such scenes are a dime a dozen; I was prepared to ignore it for the duration.
- His kind are now a dime a dozen in our legislatures.
- Enablers are a dime a dozen for alcoholics and junkies.
- Then, while planning his career, he decided upon fitness training because engineers were a dime a dozen.
- Opinions of the economy's fate are a dime a dozen.
Synonyms tedious, dull, monotonous
drop a (or the) dime on someone informal Inform on someone. 〈非正式〉告发 Example sentencesExamples - Even if they didn't reveal your identities up front, once the substance of the complaint becomes clear, he is bound to know who dropped the dime on him.
- We also wish to thank the kindred spirit who dropped the dime on him.
- I believe that he is one of the senior administration officials who dropped the dime on her.
- What will ultimately happen to the teenage high school student is still up in the air, but the fact of the matter is that he confessed to the crime after being turned in, and those who dropped dime on him did so for the reward money.
- He would eventually hit the 619 out of no where, then dropped the dime on him for the pinfall victory.
Synonyms inform, inform on someone, tell tales, tell tales on someone
informal Be decisive and show initiative. 〈非正式〉果断，采取主动 Example sentencesExamples - There's just no reason for people to really get off the dime and start doing heavy business spending just now.
- I am not getting any younger, and I need to move on if he's never going to get off the dime.
- I wish people would understand that, and I wish this jury would really get off the dime and start deliberating a little more conscientiously and get this thing finished with.
- Apparently wracked with indecision, the Supreme Judicial Court needs to get off the dime and render a verdict in same-sex marriage in the commonwealth.
- I share a lot of the criticism for the police, I think they were very slow in getting off the dime.
- My generation learned that if we wanted to accomplish anything, we would have to get off the dime.
- Tell him that whenever he feels like getting off the dime, you will be more than happy to discuss the new developments - and maybe a new name.
- Corporate backers of privatization are urging the Administration to get off the dime.
- One more thing, there was a poll, I can't remember - and I don't think we ought to do this by polls, but 71 percent of the American people say get off the dime.
- I really think we're going to be getting off the dime here.
informal Used to refer to a manoeuvre that can be performed within a small area or short distance. 〈非正式〉指在小范围（或短距离）内（移动中的车辆或人）进行的调动（或机动）动作 boats that can turn on a dime 可在小范围内掉头的船。 Example sentencesExamples - Yes, you've got to hand it to these guys - they can turn on a dime.
- Like a battleship, book publishing doesn't turn on a dime, so the old year's trends don't usually determine a new year's books.
- The Fed Chairman, of course, turned his fiscal rectitude on a dime as soon as the Republicans regained control of the Treasury.
- He has one of those riding mowers that turns on a dime.
- Well, you know, this investigation has turned on a dime.
- You have to be able to turn on a dime when something's not working.
- The last couple of years has seen the series shift to arcade-style action, but the new momentum-based skating could spell an end to skaters stopping and turning on a dime.
- He runs beautiful, precision short routes and can cut on a dime.
- I don't know what happened first, the insult or the swing, but months of training now meant that I could spin on a dime and hit a ball across an ocean if I had to.
- Yes, I know a 60-year-old approach to foreign policy can't turn on a dime.
OriginLate Middle English: from Old French disme, from Latin decima pars 'tenth part'. The word originally denoted a tithe or tenth part; the modern sense 'ten cent coin' dates from the late 18th century. Rhymesbegrime, Chaim, chime, climb, clime, crime, grime, half-time, I'm, lime, mime, mistime, part-time, prime, rhyme, rime, slime, sublime, sub-prime, thyme, time Definition of dime in US English: dimenoundaɪmdīm North American 1A ten-cent coin. 〈北美〉十分硬币 Example sentencesExamples - If Jimmy saves 4 dimes in his piggy bank every day, how many dimes will he save in five days?
- I supposed it was good that he'd paid because I only had a loonie and a dime in my pocket.
- The woman's face fell as Anne counted out exact change from her mass of nickels, dimes, pennies, and quarters.
- Now bring something else to the community or stop asking us to spend our hard earned pennies, nickels and dimes to buy this type of trash.
- People often count change by grouping pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters, a tendency indicating that, without practice, working memory can deal with only one item at a time.
- Suddenly, the nickels, dimes, pennies, and quarters started flying.
- The first day he had poured out his accumulated pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters onto the table in front of his sister, his face had beamed with pride at his contribution.
- Then try alternating pennies and dimes and see what happens.
- For the change-making task, three quarters, seven dimes, and seven nickels are placed in front of the patient, who then is asked to provide one dollar in change.
- My son collects my change - the random coins that come from little daily transactions, the pennies, nickels and dimes that build up in my pockets.
- It has separate pouches for pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters.
- Pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters were carefully counted.
- Instead of replacing the popular dime with another coin, it's also possible to see whether the addition of a fifth coin would help.
- Using the same group of coins, help your child make a pile of pennies to equal a nickel, nickels to equal a dime, and so on.
- She began digging through her cracked plastic coin purse, slapping quarters and dimes on the counter.
- You have five quarters, two nickels, three dimes and a penny in your pocket.
- And then she came and sat with me, next to a reflection pool that had been emptied of water, but whose cement floor was scattered with pennies and dimes turned blue from chlorine.
- Here we have ten coins: pennies, nickels, and dimes.
- Staring down into it you could see the shiny bronze pennies and silver dimes lying at the bottom.
- She's more fond of pennies and dimes than quarters.
- 1.1informal A small amount of money.
〈非正式〉小钱，少量的钱 他一点钱都没有。 there's not a dime's worth of difference between you and him Example sentencesExamples - The vast majority of dot-coms will never see a dime of profits.
- He stops speaking to May and refuses to contribute a dime to her education.
- Inspectors have the right to pop any locks (and you won't get a dime in compensation; they're allowed to do it by law).
- The exact economics may be beyond me, but I suspect neither one of us will be saving a dime on this tax cut.
- Sure, he got his contingency fee, but the families wouldn't have gotten a dime without his help, and in many cases, they would need millions to care for their chronically ill children.
- They hardly spent a dime, whereas I spent money so fast, I almost ran out of credit cards.
- The two things people need to keep in mind is that we are talking small amounts of money and you cannot afford to lose a dime.
- He figured that he might as well live till the whole sham is over, this way he won't have to spend a dime of his new found, hard earned money.
- Any money goes to people who previously bought the stock for pennies; the company doesn't get a dime.
- Without a dime of government money we are turning thousands of people per month into independent homeowners.
- But its minority investors never saw a dime in profit.
- The hub deal especially contrasts with the down-and-dirty business of having to bet a billion dollars on a vehicle program that may never produce a dime of profits.
- Not a dime of the money stays where it nominally is.
- Why did so many investors put so much money behind so many companies that had never made a dime?
- I'm an outsider, un-American for not contributing a dime to the $40-billion-a-year diet industry.
- That's a lot of loot for a pair of companies that have yet to make a dime in profits.
- We bought our house by borrowing $100,000 from his parents' retirement fund and have not paid back a dime - another nightmare.
- Even if you never spend a dime of the reserve, the tax savings on your contributions ensure you'll be no worse off than if you hadn't enrolled.
- ‘This has been a large front-end expenditure for us before we even see a dime of revenues from the settlement,’ he says.
- After all, no matter who goes first overall or who slides into the second half of the first round, you're not going to see a dime of that money, and neither am I.
Phrasesinformal Very common and of no particular value. 〈非正式〉一毛钱买一打的，常见而不值钱的 experts in this field are a dime a dozen 这方面的专家一抓一大把。 Example sentencesExamples - Enablers are a dime a dozen for alcoholics and junkies.
- Handsome, dedicated and dangerous young men were a dime a dozen in Ireland, and his frequently dismissive treatment of women didn't help.
- If they weren't so hard to come by, they'd be a dime a dozen.
- Then, while planning his career, he decided upon fitness training because engineers were a dime a dozen.
- Now they are a dime a dozen - available at malls and departmental grocery shops, with prices ranging from Rs 100 onwards for miniature versions.
- Tales like these are a dime a dozen, and all have one thing in common: I don't want to hear them.
- Opinions of the economy's fate are a dime a dozen.
- Ideas are a dime a dozen, but great execution is priceless.
- But the passion of idiot youth will have it's way, and such scenes are a dime a dozen; I was prepared to ignore it for the duration.
- His kind are now a dime a dozen in our legislatures.
Synonyms tedious, dull, monotonous
drop a (or the) dime on someone informal Inform on someone. 〈非正式〉告发 Example sentencesExamples - Even if they didn't reveal your identities up front, once the substance of the complaint becomes clear, he is bound to know who dropped the dime on him.
- I believe that he is one of the senior administration officials who dropped the dime on her.
- He would eventually hit the 619 out of no where, then dropped the dime on him for the pinfall victory.
- We also wish to thank the kindred spirit who dropped the dime on him.
- What will ultimately happen to the teenage high school student is still up in the air, but the fact of the matter is that he confessed to the crime after being turned in, and those who dropped dime on him did so for the reward money.
Synonyms inform, inform on someone, tell tales, tell tales on someone
informal Be decisive and show initiative. 〈非正式〉果断，采取主动 at some point you have to get off the dime and do something 在适当的时候，你要果断地采取行动。 Example sentencesExamples - Apparently wracked with indecision, the Supreme Judicial Court needs to get off the dime and render a verdict in same-sex marriage in the commonwealth.
- My generation learned that if we wanted to accomplish anything, we would have to get off the dime.
- There's just no reason for people to really get off the dime and start doing heavy business spending just now.
- I really think we're going to be getting off the dime here.
- I wish people would understand that, and I wish this jury would really get off the dime and start deliberating a little more conscientiously and get this thing finished with.
- One more thing, there was a poll, I can't remember - and I don't think we ought to do this by polls, but 71 percent of the American people say get off the dime.
- Tell him that whenever he feels like getting off the dime, you will be more than happy to discuss the new developments - and maybe a new name.
- Corporate backers of privatization are urging the Administration to get off the dime.
- I share a lot of the criticism for the police, I think they were very slow in getting off the dime.
- I am not getting any younger, and I need to move on if he's never going to get off the dime.
informal Used to refer to a maneuver that can be performed by a moving vehicle or person within a small area or short distance. 〈非正式〉指在小范围（或短距离）内（移动中的车辆或人）进行的调动（或机动）动作 boats that can turn on a dime 可在小范围内掉头的船。 Example sentencesExamples - I don't know what happened first, the insult or the swing, but months of training now meant that I could spin on a dime and hit a ball across an ocean if I had to.
- You have to be able to turn on a dime when something's not working.
- He runs beautiful, precision short routes and can cut on a dime.
- Like a battleship, book publishing doesn't turn on a dime, so the old year's trends don't usually determine a new year's books.
- He has one of those riding mowers that turns on a dime.
- Well, you know, this investigation has turned on a dime.
- Yes, I know a 60-year-old approach to foreign policy can't turn on a dime.
- Yes, you've got to hand it to these guys - they can turn on a dime.
- The last couple of years has seen the series shift to arcade-style action, but the new momentum-based skating could spell an end to skaters stopping and turning on a dime.
- The Fed Chairman, of course, turned his fiscal rectitude on a dime as soon as the Republicans regained control of the Treasury.
OriginLate Middle English: from Old French disme, from Latin decima pars ‘tenth part’. The word originally denoted a tithe or tenth part; the modern sense ‘ten-cent coin’ dates from the late 18th century. |