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Definition mine
Etymology 1
From Middle English min, myn, from Old English m?n, from Proto-Germanic *m?naz, from Proto-Indo-European *méynos. Cognate with Saterland Frisian mien, West Frisian myn, Dutch mijn, Low German mien, German mein, Danish, Swedish and Norwegian min, Icelandic mín.
Pronoun
mine
- My; belonging to me; that which belongs to me.
- Used predicatively.
- Used substantively, with an implied noun.
- Used absolutely, set off from the sentence.
- (archaic) Used attributively after the noun it modifies.
- (archaic) Used attributively before a vowel.
Etymology 2
From Middle English, from Old French mine, from Late Latin mina, from Gaulish (compare to Welsh mwyn, Irish míanach (“ore”)), from Proto-Celtic *m?nis (“ore, metal”).
Noun
mine (plural mines)
- An excavation from which ore or solid minerals are taken, especially one consisting of underground tunnels.
- (figuratively) Any source of wealth or resources.
- (military) A passage dug toward or underneath enemy lines, which is then packed with explosives.
- (military) A device intended to explode when stepped upon or touched, or when approached by a ship, vehicle, or person.
- (pyrotechnics) A type of firework that explodes on the ground, shooting sparks upward.
- (entomology) The cavity made by a caterpillar while feeding inside a leaf.
- (computing) A machine or network of machines used to extract units of a cryptocurrency.
Verb
mine (third-person singular simple present mines, present participle mining, simple past and past participle mined)
- (transitive, intransitive) To remove (ore) from the ground.
- To dig into, for ore or metal.
- (transitive) To sow mines (the explosive devices) in (an area).
- (transitive) To damage (a vehicle or ship) with a mine (an explosive device).
- (intransitive) To dig a tunnel or hole; to burrow in the earth.
- To dig away, or otherwise remove, the substratum or foundation of; to lay a mine under; to sap; to undermine.
- (by extension, figuratively) To ruin or destroy by slow degrees or secret means.
- (slang) To pick one's nose.
- (computing) To earn new units of cryptocurrency by doing certain calculations.
Etymology 3
Borrowed from French mine.
Noun
mine (plural mines)
- Alternative form of mien
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