MINE
\mˈa͡ɪn], \mˈaɪn], \m_ˈaɪ_n]\
Definitions of MINE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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explosive device that explodes on contact; designed to destroy vehicles or ships or to kill or maim personnel
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excavation in the earth from which ores and minerals are extracted
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lay mines; "The Vietnamese mined Cambodia"
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get from the earth by excavation; "mine ores and metals"
By Princeton University
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explosive device that explodes on contact; designed to destroy vehicles or ships or to kill or maim personnel
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excavation in the earth from which ores and minerals are extracted
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lay mines; "The Vietnamese mined Cambodia"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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See Mien.
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To dig a mine or pit in the earth; to get ore, metals, coal, or precious stones, out of the earth; to dig in the earth for minerals; to dig a passage or cavity under anything in order to overthrow it by explosives or otherwise.
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To form subterraneous tunnel or hole; to form a burrow or lodge in the earth; as, the mining cony.
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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.
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To dig into, for ore or metal.
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To get, as metals, out of the earth by digging.
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A subterranean cavity or passage
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A cavity or tunnel made under a fortification or other work, for the purpose of blowing up the superstructure with some explosive agent.
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Any place where ore, metals, or precious stones are got by digging or washing the soil; as, a placer mine.
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Fig.: A rich source of wealth or other good.
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Belonging to me; my. Used as a pronominal to me; my. Used as a pronominal adjective in the predicate; as, Vengeance is mine; I will repay. Rom. xii. 19. Also, in the old style, used attributively, instead of my, before a noun beginning with a vowel.
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A pit or excavation in the earth, from which metallic ores, precious stones, coal, or other mineral substances are taken by digging; - distinguished from the pits from which stones for architectural purposes are taken, and which are called quarries.
By Oddity Software
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See Mien.
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To dig a mine or pit in the earth; to get ore, metals, coal, or precious stones, out of the earth; to dig in the earth for minerals; to dig a passage or cavity under anything in order to overthrow it by explosives or otherwise.
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To form subterraneous tunnel or hole; to form a burrow or lodge in the earth; as, the mining cony.
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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.
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To dig into, for ore or metal.
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To get, as metals, out of the earth by digging.
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A subterranean cavity or passage
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A cavity or tunnel made under a fortification or other work, for the purpose of blowing up the superstructure with some explosive agent.
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Any place where ore, metals, or precious stones are got by digging or washing the soil; as, a placer mine.
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Fig.: A rich source of wealth or other good.
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Belonging to me; my. Used as a pronominal to me; my. Used as a pronominal adjective in the predicate; as, Vengeance is mine; I will repay. Rom. xii. 19. Also, in the old style, used attributively, instead of my, before a noun beginning with a vowel.
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A pit or excavation in the earth, from which metallic ores, precious stones, coal, or other mineral substances are taken by digging; - distinguished from the pits from which stones for architectural purposes are taken, and which are called quarries.
By Noah Webster.
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Pertaining to me.
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An opening made in the earth, from which minerals, precious stones, etc., are taken; crude iron-stone; an abundant store; a rich source of wealth; a tunnel under an enemy's works to blow them up; a receptacle filled with explosives, moored beneath, or on, the water, the firing of which destroys or hinders an enemy.
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To carry on the work of digging for metals, etc.; to dig a mine; to burrow; practice secret methods; to lay explosives (in a harbor).
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To undermine or sap, as an enemy's works; to destroy slowly; to dig in for ore or metals; to make or get by digging underground; as, to mine a tunnel, or to mine coal.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Belonging to me: my.
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To dig for metals: to excavate: to dig underground in order to overturn a wall: to destroy by secret means.
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A place from which metals are dug: an excavation dug under a fortification to blow it up with gunpowder: a rich source of wealth.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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To dig out of the earth.
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To make by digging.
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To make a mine; engage in mining; burrow.
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Miner.
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An excavation for digging out ore, coal, or the like, or a deposit of such material.
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Belonging to me; of me: possessive of I.
By James Champlin Fernald
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
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n. [French, Italian] A subterranean cavity or passage, especially, a pit or excavation in the earth from which mineral substances are dug;— a cavity filled with powder formed under a fortification or other work, so as to destroy it when fired;—a rich source of wealth or other good.
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