Dime

6 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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
  
  

From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:

  DIME
       Desktop Integrated Media Environment (COSE)
       
       

From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:

  DIME
       DIrect Memory Execute (AGP)
       
       

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  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.