mine
IPA: mˈaɪn
noun
- An excavation from which ore or solid minerals are taken, especially one consisting of underground tunnels.
- (figurative) 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.
- Alternative form of mien [(countable, uncountable) Demeanor; facial expression or attitude, especially one which is intended by its bearer.]
verb
- (transitive, intransitive) To remove (rock or 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, figurative) To ruin or destroy by slow degrees or secret means.
- (slang) To pick one's nose.
- (cryptocurrencies) To earn new units of cryptocurrency by doing certain calculations.
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Examples of "mine" in Sentences
- Oh, you're mine -- _mine_, little private secretary.
- Ah, what bliss to have you mine, _mine_, and be yours.
- And then I thought in ecstasy, "She is mine -- _mine_!"
- "To mine -- to _mine_, you rascal, you vagabond!" stormed the King.
- "Mine -- mine -- _mine_ and not _theirs_; not _theirs_, but _mine_."
- The only joy I have in his being mine, is that the _not mine_ is _mine_.
- God gave me a vision -- it may not come again for a century, it can never come again -- it is mine -- _mine only_!
- Before a noun beginning with a vowel thine and mine are commonly substituted for thy and my, as in thine eyes and mine infirmity.
- \ "Sure the trifecta of Spike Jonze, Dave Eggers, and Karen O. is a dream of mine, \" said a hipster who later admitted that by \ "mine\" he meant \ "everyone he interacts with\".
- Telegraph, and that he had been requested to see mine and report upon it; that he should report that '_mine was the best that had been submitted to him_'; and he added that I had better forthwith get an introduction to the Minister of the Interior, Mons. the Count Montalivet.
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