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mine¹
- /maɪ̯n/
- /ˈmaɪ.ɪn/ Philadelphia
Rhymes with -aɪn
Where it comes from
From Middle English min, myn, from Old English mīn, from Proto-West Germanic *mīn, from Proto-Germanic *mīnaz, from Proto-Indo-European *méynos.
Cognate with Saterland Frisian mien, West Frisian myn, Dutch mijn, Low German mien, German mein, Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish min, Faroese and Icelandic mín.
pronoun mine · myne
- Used predicatively. The house itself is mine, but the land is not.
- Used substantively, with an implied noun. Mine has been a long journey.
- Used absolutely, set off from the sentence. Mine for only a week so far, it already feels like an old friend.
- My house or home. We had the party at mine.
- As double possessive. This house of mine is over 100 years old.
determiner myne
- My; belonging to me. Well, then, fix it up nice, waiter, and make mine baked hash an’ mashed ’taters and stewed corn and waiter!—plain white bread, no fancy rolls!
- Used attributively after the noun it modifies. […] Flesh and blood, / You, brother mine, that entertain'd ambition, / […]
- Used attributively before a vowel. Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord: / […]
mine²
- /maɪ̯n/
- /ˈmaɪ.ɪn/ Philadelphia
Rhymes with -aɪn
Where it comes from
From Middle English [Term?], from Old French mine, from Late Latin mina, from Gaulish (compare to Welsh mwyn, Irish mianach (“ore”)), from Proto-Celtic *meinis (“ore, metal”).
noun mines
- An excavation from which ore or solid minerals are taken, especially one consisting of underground tunnels. Meronyms: mine shaft, mineshaft; mine car
- Any source of wealth or resources. She's a mine of information about the history of mathematics.
- 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.
- A device intended to explode when stepped upon or touched, or when approached by a ship, vehicle, or person. Holonym: minefield
- A type of firework that explodes on the ground, shooting sparks upward.
- The cavity made by a caterpillar while feeding inside a leaf.
- 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.
verb mines · mining · mined
- 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.
- To dig into, for ore or metal. Lead veins have been traced […] but they have not been mined.
- To sow mines (the explosive devices) in (an area). We had to slow our advance after the enemy mined the road ahead of us.
- To damage (a vehicle or ship) with a mine (an explosive device).
- To dig a tunnel or hole; to burrow in the earth. the mining cony
- To dig away, or otherwise remove, the substratum or foundation of; to lay a mine under; to sap; to undermine. They mined the walls.
- To ruin or destroy by slow degrees or secret means.
- To tap into.
- To pick one's nose.
- To earn new units of cryptocurrency by doing certain calculations. Bitcoin supporters say that estimates of its carbon footprint are overstated. And if the computers that mine and help transact bitcoins are attached to an electric grid that uses wind and solar power, they add, mining and using it will become cleaner over time.
mine³
- /maɪ̯n/
- /ˈmaɪ.ɪn/ Philadelphia
Rhymes with -aɪn
Where it comes from
Borrowed from French mine.
noun mines
- Alternative form of mien.mien
Mine⁴
pronoun
- Honorific alternative letter-case form of mine, sometimes used when referring to God or another important figure who is understood from context.mine
