Mine | |
1. pron. alternative case form of mine often used when speaking as God or another important figure who is understood from context. | |
2. pron. My; belonging to me; that which belongs to me. | |
3. pron. Used predicatively. | |
The house itself is mine, but the land is not. | |
4. pron. Used substantively, with an implied noun. | |
Mine has been a long journey. | |
5. pron. Used absolutely, set off from the sentence. | |
Mine for only a week so far, it already feels like an old friend. | |
6. pron. (archaic) Used attributively after the noun it modifies. | |
7. pron. (archaic) Used attributively before a vowel. | |
8. n. An excavation from which ore or solid minerals are taken, especially one consisting of underground tunnels. | |
This diamond comes from a mine in South Africa. | |
He came out of the coal mine with a face covered in black. | |
Most coal and ore comes from open-pit mines nowadays. | |
9. n. (figurative) Any source of wealth or resources. | |
She's a mine of information. | |
10. n. (military) A passage dug toward or underneath enemy lines, which is then packed with explosives. | |
11. n. (military) A device intended to explode when stepped upon or touched, or when approached by a ship, vehicle, or person. | |
His left leg was blown off after he stepped on a mine. | |
The warship was destroyed by floating mines. | |
12. n. (pyrotechnics) A type of firework that explodes on the ground, shooting sparks upward. | |
13. n. (entomology) The cavity made by a caterpillar while feeding inside a leaf. | |
14. n. (computing) A machine or network of machines used to extract units of a cryptocurrency. | |
15. v. To remove (ore) from the ground. | |
Crater of Diamonds State Park is the only place in the world where visitors can mine their own diamonds. | |
16. v. To dig into, for ore or metal. | |
17. v. To sow mines (the explosive devices) in (an area). | |
We had to slow our advance after the enemy mined the road ahead of us. | |
18. v. To damage (a vehicle or ship) with a mine (an explosive device). | |
19. v. (intransitive) To dig a tunnel or hole; to burrow in the earth. | |
the mining cony | |
20. v. To dig away, or otherwise remove, the substratum or foundation of; to lay a mine under; to sap; to undermine; hence, to ruin or destroy by slow degrees or secret means. | |
21. v. (slang) To pick one's nose. | |
22. v. (computing) To earn new units of cryptocurrency by doing certain calculations. | |
23. n. alternative form of mien | |
24. n. topics, en, Mining, Weapons, Cryptocurrency | |