mine

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minemyne

myne

noun

Plural noun:

mines

1.
An excavation from which ore or solid minerals are taken, especially one consisting of underground tunnels.
Meronyms: mine shaft, mineshaft; mine car
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.
2.
(figuratively)(figurative) Any source of wealth or resources.
She's a mine of information about the history of mathematics.
3.
(military) A passage dug toward or underneath enemy lines, which is then packed with explosives.
The most famous mine of the American Civil War led to the Battle of the Crater.
4.
(military) A device intended to explode when stepped upon or touched, or when approached by a ship, vehicle, or person.
Holonym: minefield
His left leg was blown off after he stepped on a mine.
The warship was destroyed by floating mines.
5.
(pyrotechnics) A type of firework that explodes on the ground, shooting sparks upward.
6.
(entomology) The cavity made by a caterpillar while feeding inside a leaf.
7.
(computing) A machine or network of machines used to extract units of a cryptocurrency.
A change to the blockchain method was contemplated to allow mines to hog less electric power.
8.
(alt of, alternative)Alternative form of mien.

verb

V_es/s

mines

V_ing/Gerund

mining

V_ed/pp

mined

1.
(ambitransitive)To remove (rock or ore) from the ground.
Crater of Diamonds State Park is the only place in the world where visitors can mine their own diamonds.
2.
To dig into, for ore or metal.
3.
(transitive)To sow mines (the explosive devices) in (an area).
We had to slow our advance after the enemy mined the road ahead of us.
4.
(transitive)To damage (a vehicle or ship) with a mine (an explosive device).
5.
(intransitive)To dig a tunnel or hole; to burrow in the earth.
the mining cony
6.
To dig away, or otherwise remove, the substratum or foundation of; to lay a mine under; to sap; to undermine.
7.
(broadly, figuratively)(by extension, figurative) To ruin or destroy by slow degrees or secret means.
8.
(broadly, figuratively)(by extension, figurative) To tap into.
9.
(slang)To pick one's nose.
10.
(cryptocurrencies) To earn new units of cryptocurrency by doing certain calculations.

From Middle English min, myn, from Old English mīn, from *mīn, from Proto-Germanic *mīnaz, from Proto-Indo-European *méynos.