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mine

[mahyn]

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pronoun

a form of the possessive case of I used as a predicate adjective: The yellow sweater is mine.

something that belongs to me: Mine is the red car.

Archaic. my (used before a word beginning with a vowel or a silent h, or following a noun): mine eyes; lady mine.

Origin:
before 900; Middle English; Old English mīn my; cognate with Old Norse mīn, German mein, Gothic meina; see me

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Mine is always a great word to know.

So is flibbertigibbet. Does it mean:

a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.

a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.

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Example Sentences

Bleske-Rechek isn't the first researcher to mine this territory.

The disused iron mine is a popular tourist attraction.

Army is testing a new technology for land mine detection that is based on the use of sound waves.

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Bleske-Rechek isn't the first researcher to mine this territory.

The disused iron mine is a popular tourist attraction.

Army is testing a new technology for land mine detection that is based on the use of sound waves.

Humour does not get much blacker than laughter in a collapsed coal mine.

Mark is a good friend of mine and it's nice to read about his success as a paleontologist.

Mine is sealed up tight in a far corner of the garden.

The halls and walkways throughout this inactive gypsum mine show evidence of the previous tenant's trade.

It was clear that his definition of an inalienable right to tenure was different from mine and that of his fellow faculty members.

His job had been putting out mine fires with buckets of pulverized rock dust.

How about hundreds of sq miles of toxic deadly moonscape dead forever mine tailings dumps.

Your photo of it curling around the base of a rock has suggested the perfect place to plant mine.

In this mode, there are no zombies to destroy your creations, and you don't have to mine bricks.

Suppose you are down a mine and five people are standing on the track.

Where the trapline and the cabin once were, and the forest, there is now a large open-pit mine.

We're not going to have any search for scapegoats the final responsibilities of any failure are mine, and mine alone.

Then one year they destroyed mine and all those in the neighborhood.

High-pressure steam forced the water to the surface of the mine.

One former student of mine took a job on a fishing boat because he wanted to.

Kolmanskop is an abandoned diamond mine near the coast.

The tiny amount left is such a low level it can be returned to the mine shaft.

Mine look a little better than yours but remain stunted with no vine vigor whatsoever.

Water samples from the old mine yielded colonies of bacteria and fungi.

Most of the gold left to mine exists as traces buried in remote and fragile corners of the globe.

Have not made it myself but a friend of mine is in the process of making a huge batch of her own.

Whoever he was, he quit before he could sever the crystal, and mine owners later installed a heavy steel door to deter looters.

But she grew up more interested in diamonds than in lumber, and she was always drawn to the mine.

Several companies are currently working on robots that could mine asteroids.

Researchers descend by truck through a serpentine mine shaft.

Fifty-five bodies were reported recovered from an abandoned mine apparently used by gangs as a grave.

In the short term, this is a potential gold mine for foreign-affairs scholarship.

The skies in mine were not as brilliant, but the picture is awesome.

Long ago, well beyond the reach of the statute of limitations, a friend of mine shot a crow whose gang was vandalizing the.

Robinson's now and mine then, and have made choices similar to mine.

But it will rise up again and the mine in question here is the single largest untapped reserve in the world.

Arms three times as strong as mine aren't going to be much use in dealing with animals who's weight is measured in tons.

Mine broke the first hour due to a botched landing and my coworker's blades got screwed up after a few encounters with a wall.

Mine was given to me as a graduation present from my family.

Some evicted civilians were then forced back by soldiers to mine the diamonds for a pittance.

The oldest copier invented by people is language, by which an idea of yours becomes an idea of mine.

Nick attack, which will detect when they lay another mine and punish their naughtiness.

Garfield spent his free time thinking about scientific literature and how to mine information from it.

The firm is one of a growing number of internet start-ups that mine unconventional forms of data to offer financial.

HiveMind wouldn't necessarily mine this information on its own.

Any student who forgets his or her non-graphing calculator can borrow mine.

The editorial has a much more sympathetic take than mine towards the.

The best part of going into a coal mine is coming out again.

Humans use plants to mine nutrients out of the soil and then eat them.

Dre's suggestion of the softpaws claw caps, which two of mine lived with for over a year.

It turned out to be a meeting to settle a dispute over a chromite mine.

We can even measure the amount of nutrients that a crop can mine for.

Their goal could be conceived in programmatic terms, mine required higher incomes and capable systems.

The plants retain water and may help keep downstream sections of the river intact when a mine settles in upstream, he said.

Everything in a mining town depended on the local mine.

She's also a geek, and that makes her a particular favorite of mine.

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noun

an excavation made in the earth for the purpose of extracting ores, coal, precious stones, etc.

a place where such minerals may be obtained, either by excavation or by washing the soil.

a natural deposit of such minerals.

an abundant source; store: a mine of information.

a device containing a charge of explosive in a watertight casing, floating on or moored beneath the surface of the water for the purpose of blowing up an enemy ship that strikes it or passes close by it.

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a similar device used on land against personnel or vehicles; land mine.

a subterranean passage made to extend under an enemy's works or position, as for the purpose of securing access or of depositing explosives for blowing up a military position.

a passageway in the parenchyma of a leaf, made by certain insects.

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verb (used without object)

to dig in the earth for the purpose of extracting ores, coal, etc.; make a mine.

10.

to extract coal, ore, or the like, from a mine.

11.

to make subterranean passages.

12.

to place or lay mines, as in military or naval operations.

verb (used with object)

13.

to dig in (earth, rock, etc.) in order to obtain ores, coal, etc.

14.

to extract (ore, coal, etc.) from a mine.

15.

to avail oneself of or draw useful or valuable material from: to mine every reference book available in writing the term paper.

16.

to use, especially a natural resource: to mine the nation's forests.

17.

to make subterranean passages in or under; burrow.

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18.

to make (passages, tunnels, etc.) by digging or burrowing.

19.

to dig away or remove the foundations of.

20.

to place or lay military or naval mines under: to mine an enemy supply road.

21.

Agriculture. to grow crops in (soil) over an extended time without fertilizing.

22.

to remove (a natural resource) from its source without attempting to replenish it.

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Origin:
1275–1325; 1875–80 for def. 5; (v.) Middle English minen < Old French miner (cognate with Provençal, Spanish minar, Italian minare) < Vulgar Latin *mīnāre, probably < a Celtic base *mein-; compare MIr méin, Welsh mwyn ore, mineral; (noun) Middle English < Middle French, perhaps noun derivative of miner; compare Medieval Latin mina mine, mineral

Related forms

un·mined, adjective

Synonyms
4. supply, stock, fund, hoard.

Mineral Engineer.

pronoun

the nominative singular pronoun, used by a speaker in referring to himself or herself.

noun

(used to denote the narrator of a literary work written in the first person singular).

Metaphysics. the ego.

Origin:
before 900; Middle English ik, ich, i; Old English ic, ih; cognate with German ich, Old Norse ek, Latin ego, Greek egṓ, OCS azŭ, Lithuanian aš, Sanskrit ahám

Usage note
See me.

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Collins

World English Dictionary

mine¹ (maɪn)

—*pron*
1.	something or someone belonging to or associated with me: mine is best
2.	of mine belonging to or associated with me

—*determiner*
3.	(preceding a vowel) an archaic word for my : mine eyes; mine host

[Old English mīn; compare Old High German, Old Norse mīn, Dutch mijn]

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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Etymonline

Word Origin & History

12c. shortening of O.E. ic, first person sing. nom. pronoun, from P.Gmc. *ekan (cf. O.Fris. ik, O.N. ek, Norw. eg, Dan. jeg, O.H.G. ih, Ger. ich, Goth. ik), from PIE *ego(m) (cf. Skt. aham, Hitt. uk, L. ego, Gk. ego, Rus. ja). Reduced to i by 1137 in northern England, it began to be capitalized c.1250

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to mark it as a distinct word and avoid misreading in handwritten manuscripts.

"The reason for writing I is ... the orthographic habit in the middle ages of using a 'long i' (that is, j or I) whenever the letter was isolated or formed the last letter of a group; the numeral 'one' was written j or I (and three iij, etc.), just as much as the pronoun." [Otto Jespersen, "Growth and Structure of the English Language," p.233]

The form ich or ik, especially before vowels, lingered in northern England until c.1400 and survived in southern dialects until 18c. The dot on the "small" letter -i- began to appear in 11c. L. manuscripts, to distinguish the letter from the stroke of another letter (such as -m- or -n-). Originally a diacritic, it was reduced to a dot with the introduction of Roman type fonts. The basic word for "I" in Japanese is watakushi, but it is not much used. Words that boys usually use are boku (polite) or ore (OH-ray), a rougher word, which can be rude depending on the situation. Girls usually use atashi (a feminine-sounding word) or the neutral watashi, but a tomboy might use boku like boys do.

mine

O.E. min "mine, my," (pronoun and adj.), from P.Gmc. *minaz (cf. Goth. meins, O.N. minn, Du. mijn, Ger. mein "my, mine"), from the base of me. Superseded as adj. beginning 13c. by my.

mine

c.1300, from O.Fr. mine, probably from a Celtic source (cf. Welsh mwyn, Ir. mein "ore, mine"), from O.Celt. *meini-. Italy and Greece were relatively poor in minerals, thus they did not contribute a word for this to Eng., but there was extensive mining from an early date in Celtic lands (Cornwall, etc.).

The verb meaning "to dig in a mine" is from c.1300.

mine

"lay explosives," 1620s, in reference to old tactic of tunneling under enemy fortifications to blow them up; from mine (n.). The sense of "to dig under foundations to undermine them" is from late 14c., and miner in this sense is attested from late 13c. Related: Mined; mining.

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American Heritage

Medical Dictionary

The symbol for the element iodine.
iThe symbol for current.

American Heritage

Science Dictionary

iodine (ī'ə-dīn') Pronunciation Key
Symbol I
A shiny, grayish-black element of the halogen group. It is corrosive and poisonous and occurs in very small amounts in nature except for seaweed, in which it is abundant. Iodine compounds are used in medicine, antiseptics, and dyes. Atomic number 53; atomic weight 126.9045; melting point 113.5°C; boiling point 184.35°C; specific gravity (solid, at 20°C) 4.93; valence 1, 3, 5, 7. See Periodic Table.

mine (mīn) Pronunciation Key
An underground excavation in the Earth from which ore, rock, or minerals can be extracted.

Easton

Bible Dictionary

Mine definition

The process of mining is described in Job 28:1-11. Moses speaks of the mineral wealth of Palestine (Deut. 8:9). Job 28:4 is rightly thus rendered in the Revised Version, "He breaketh open a shaft away from where men sojourn; they are forgotten of the foot [that passeth by]; they hang afar from men, they swing to and fro." These words illustrate ancient mining operations.

Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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American Heritage

Idioms & Phrases

mine

see back to the salt mines; gold mine; your guess is as good as mine.

Encyclopedia Britannica

Encyclopedia

mine

in military and naval operations, a usually stationary explosive device that is designed to destroy personnel, ships, or vehicles when the latter come in contact with it. Submarine mines have been in use since the mid-19th century; land mines did not become a significant factor in warfare until a hundred years later.

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