mine

adjective

\ ˈmīn

Definition of mine

(Entry 1 of 4)

: my —used before a word beginning with a vowel or h this treasure in mine arms— William Shakespeare or sometimes as a modifier of a preceding noun —archaic except in an elevated style

mine

pronoun, singular or plural in construction

Definition of mine (Entry 2 of 4)

: that which belongs to me —used without a following noun as a pronoun equivalent in meaning to the adjective my Your eyes are brown and mine are green.

mine

noun

Definition of mine (Entry 3 of 4)

1a : a pit or excavation in the earth from which mineral substances are taken

b : an ore deposit

2 : a subterranean passage under an enemy position

3 : an encased explosive that is placed in the ground or in water and set to explode when disturbed

4 : a rich source of supply

mine

verb

mined; mining

Definition of mine (Entry 4 of 4)

transitive verb

1a : to dig under to gain access or cause the collapse of (an enemy position)

b : undermine

2a : to get (something, such as ore) from the earth

b : to extract from a source information mined from the files

3 : to burrow beneath the surface of larva that mines leaves

4 : to place military mines in, on, or under mine a harbor

5a : to dig into for ore or metal

b : to process for obtaining a natural constituent mine the air for nitrogen

c : to seek valuable material in mine old records for more details

6 : to create or obtain more units of (a cryptocurrency) through a cryptographic process But bitcoins also need to be generated in the first place. Bitcoins are "mined" when you set your Bitcoin client to a mode that has it compete to update the public log of transactions. All the clients set to this mode race to solve a cryptographic puzzle by completing the next "block" of the shared transaction log. Winning the race to complete the next block wins you a 50-Bitcoin prize.— Tom Simonite

intransitive verb

: to dig a mine

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Examples of mine in a Sentence

Noun a baseball fanatic who is a mine of fascinating trivia about the game the soldiers were careful to disarm any mines they found in their path Verb The area was soon filled with prospectors who were mining for gold. Prospectors mined the region for diamonds. Local people were hired to mine the gold. The enemy had mined the harbor.

Recent Examples on the Web: Noun The pond where the leak was discovered is at the old Piney Point phosphate mine, sitting in a stack of phosphogypsum, a waste product from manufacturing fertilizer that is radioactive. — Fox News, "Leak at wastewater pond prompts evacuations in Florida," 4 Apr. 2021 This was something a friend of mine, Matthew Leutwyler, directed. — Clark Collis, EW.com, "Jeffrey Dean Morgan talks 'petrifying' shoot for The Unholy, Walking Dead season finale," 31 Mar. 2021 But certainly a lot of people, friends of mine who are not journalists and who are not reporting on this, have been asking me about this vaccine. — Adam Feuerstein, STAT, "What to make of the AstraZeneca vaccine data — and the surrounding controversy," 29 Mar. 2021 Alabama’s environmental regulator has ordered an out-of-state company to stop spreading poultry processing waste as fertilizer at an old coal mine north of Birmingham. — Dennis Pillion | Dpillion@al.com, al, "Alabama shuts down poultry waste sludge operation north of Birmingham," 11 Mar. 2021 Recession cost Pieratos her job in 1982 at the former U.S. Steel mine near Virginia. — Star Tribune, "American Indian architect leads aeroponics farm plan for Iron Range to Meda finals," 24 Jan. 2021 Cargill, the food production giant, said in a statement that 16 other workers at its Avery Island mine were evacuated and no other injuries were reported. — Tim Stelloh, NBC News, "2 missing after roof collapses in Louisiana salt mine," 14 Dec. 2020 Supply concerns were mounting on Tuesday after members of the Distrito union at the Centinela copper mine in Chile rejected owner Antofagasta Plc’s wage offer, drawing to a close regular collective bargaining and threatening a possible strike. — Bloomberg.com, "Copper Powers On as Bulls Say Rally is One for the History Books," 1 Dec. 2020 An eastern Kentucky coal miner was killed while working at a surface mine in Bell County, state officials said Saturday. — David Harten, The Courier-Journal, "Kentucky coal miner dies at Bell County surface mine," 11 Oct. 2020 Recent Examples on the Web: Verb In addition, researchers are able to mine electronic health records to discover patients who qualify for clinical trials but who might not have been offered the opportunity in the past. — Brian Gormley, WSJ, "Researchers Look for Ways to Make Drug Trials More Diverse," 28 Mar. 2021 Mel Tucker continues to mine the NCAA transfer portal for talent from within the Big Ten. — Chris Solari, Detroit Free Press, "Michigan State football lands former 4-star LB Itayvion 'Tank' Brown from transfer portal," 23 Mar. 2021 Every streamer is trying to mine our childhood pop cultural faves for the sake of viewership. — Jen Chaney, Vulture, "The Beagle Remains a Blessing," 6 Feb. 2021 The organization also has associate members that include Alabama Power Company, Balch and Bingham LLP, Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP, Norfolk Southern, Thompson Tractor Company, and others that do not mine coal directly. — Dennis Pillion | Dpillion@al.com, al, "Alabama Coal Association expands to represent other mining operations," 11 Feb. 2021 Engineers are figuring out how to mine the heat in the nonporous rock beneath the surface. — Arkansas Online, "OPINION | DAVID BROOKS: The coming technology boom," 14 Feb. 2021 Engineers are figuring out how to mine the heat in the nonporous rock beneath the surface. — David Brooks, Star Tribune, "The coming technology boom," 12 Feb. 2021 Folklore finds Swift replaying memories over and over, trying to mine them for meaning that might not have been apparent in the moment. — Nate Jones, Vulture, "All 179 Taylor Swift Songs, Ranked," 11 Jan. 2021 Streep stars as a novelist traveling aboard the Queen Mary 2 who invites two old college friends along, in part to catch up and in part possibly to mine them for new material. — Mark Olsen Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, "Indie Focus: A family finds itself in ‘Minari’," 11 Dec. 2020

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