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Minable
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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World English Dictionary
| mine2 (maɪn) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a system of excavations made for the extraction of minerals, esp coal, ores, or precious stones |
| 2. | any deposit of ore or minerals |
| 3. | a lucrative source or abundant supply: she was a mine of information |
| 4. | a device containing an explosive designed to destroy ships, vehicles, or personnel, usually laid beneath the ground or in water |
| 5. | a tunnel or sap dug to undermine a fortification |
| 6. | a groove or tunnel made by certain insects, esp in a leaf |
| —vb | |
| 7. | to dig into (the earth) for (minerals) |
| 8. | to make (a hole, tunnel, etc) by digging or boring |
| 9. | to place explosive mines in position below the surface of (the sea or land) |
| 10. | to undermine (a fortification) by digging mines or saps |
| 11. | another word for undermine |
| [C13: from Old French, probably of Celtic origin; compare Irish mein, Welsh mwyn ore, mine] | |
| 'minable2 | |
| —adj | |
| 'mineable2 | |
| —adj | |
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