Penny

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim In the United Kingdom and Ireland and many other countries, a unit of currency worth ¹⁄₂₄₀ of a pound sterling or Irish pound before decimalisation, or a copper coin worth this amount. Abbreviation: d.

   “However he lost out, as other business interests whom he had alienated by his efforts to squeeze every penny of profit from the canal, supported the construction of the railway.”

2. isim In the United Kingdom, a unit of currency worth ¹⁄₁₀₀ of a pound sterling, or a copper coin worth this amount. Abbreviation: p.
3. isim In Ireland, a coin worth ¹⁄₁₀₀ of an Irish pound before the introduction of the euro. Abbreviation: p.
4. isim In the US and (formerly) Canada, a one-cent coin, worth ¹⁄₁₀₀ of a dollar. Abbreviation: ¢.

   “Holy shit! A hundred and eleven pennies! At that point, that dog had more Lincoln in him than Mary Todd.”

5. isim In various countries, a small-denomination copper or brass coin.
6. isim A unit of nail size, said to be either the cost per 100 nails, or the number of nails per penny. Abbreviation: d.
7. isim Money in general.

   “to turn an honest penny”

8. fiil To jam a door shut by inserting pennies between the doorframe and the door.

   “Zach and Ben had only been at college for a week when their door was pennied by the girls down the hall.”

9. fiil To circumvent the tripping of an electrical circuit breaker by the dangerous practice of inserting a coin in place of a fuse in a fuse socket.
10. fiil During a meal or as part of a drinking game, to drop a penny in a person's drink with the expectation that they finish it (or some such variation thereof); commonly associated with crewdates at Oxford and swaps at Cambridge.

    “You got pennied! Down it, fresher.”

11. özel isim A diminutive of the female given name Penelope.
12. özel isim A surname.

    “Max Cross cut a fine figure as the Colonel, Percy Penny was a somewhat unducal Duke, while Edgar McHale gave a particularly good rendering of the Major.”

13. özel isim An unincorporated community in Calloway County, Kentucky, United States.
14. özel isim An unincorporated community in Pike County, Kentucky.
15. özel isim A small community on the Fraser River in central British Columbia, Canada.