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Quarry
A quarry is a place from which dimension stone, rock, construction aggregate, riprap, sand, gravel, or slate has been excavated from the ground. A quarry is the same thing as an open-pit mine from which minerals are extracted. The only non-trivial difference between the two is that open-pit mines that produce building materials and dimension stone are commonly referred to as quarries.
The word quarry can also include the underground quarrying for stone, such as Bath stone.
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Mine (pronoun)
My; belonging to me; that which belongs to me.
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Mine (pronoun)
Used predicatively.
“The house itself is mine, but the land is not.”
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Mine (pronoun)
Used substantively, with an implied noun.
“Mine has been a long journey.”
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Mine (pronoun)
Used absolutely, set off from the sentence.
“Mine for only a week so far, it already feels like an old friend.”
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Mine (pronoun)
Used attributively after the noun it modifies.
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Mine (noun)
An excavation from which ore or solid minerals are taken, especially one consisting of underground tunnels.
“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.”
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Mine (noun)
Any source of wealth or resources.
“She’s a mine of information.”
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Mine (noun)
A passage dug toward or underneath enemy lines, which is then packed with explosives.
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Mine (noun)
A device intended to explode when stepped upon or touched, or when approached by a ship, vehicle, or person.
“His left leg was blown off after he stepped on a mine.”
“The warship was destroyed by floating mines.”
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Mine (noun)
A type of firework that explodes on the ground, shooting sparks upward.
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Mine (noun)
The cavity made by a caterpillar while feeding inside a leaf.
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Mine (noun)
A machine used to extract units of a cryptocurrency.
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Mine (noun)
alternative form of mien
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Mine (verb)
To remove (ore) from the ground.
“Crater of Diamonds State Park is the only place in the world where visitors can mine their own diamonds.”
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Mine (verb)
To dig into, for ore or metal.
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Mine (verb)
To sow mines (the explosive devices) in (an area).
“We had to slow our advance after the enemy mined the road ahead of us.”
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Mine (verb)
To damage (a vehicle or ship) with a mine (an explosive device).
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Mine (verb)
To dig a tunnel or hole; to burrow in the earth.
“the mining cony”
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Mine (verb)
To dig away, or otherwise remove, the substratum or foundation of; to lay a mine under; to sap; to undermine; hence, to ruin or destroy by slow degrees or secret means.
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Mine (verb)
To pick one’s nose.
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Mine (verb)
To earn new units of cryptocurrency by doing certain calculations.
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Quarry (noun)
A site for mining stone, slate.
“w|Michelangelo personally quarried marble from the world-famous quarry at Carrara.”
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Quarry (noun)
A part of the hunted hounds as a reward.
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Quarry (noun)
An hunted.
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Quarry (noun)
An object of search or pursuit.
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Quarry (noun)
A tile or stone.
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Quarry (verb)
To mine) stone by extraction from a quarry.
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Quarry (verb)
To extract or slowly searching.
“They quarried out new, interesting facts about ancient Egypt from old papyri.”
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Quarry (verb)
To prey; to prey, as a vulture or harpy.