Mines vs. Mine

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  • Mines (noun)

    plural of mine

  • Mine (pronoun)

    My; belonging to me; that which belongs to me.

  • Mine (pronoun)

    Used predicatively.

    “The house itself is mine, but the land is not.”

  • Mine (pronoun)

    Used substantively, with an implied noun.

    “Mine has been a long journey.”

  • Mine (pronoun)

    Used absolutely, set off from the sentence.

    “Mine for only a week so far, it already feels like an old friend.”

  • Mine (pronoun)

    Used attributively after the noun it modifies.

  • 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.”

  • Mine (noun)

    Any source of wealth or resources.

    “She’s a mine of information.”

  • Mine (noun)

    A passage dug toward or underneath enemy lines, which is then packed with explosives.

  • 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.”

  • Mine (noun)

    A type of firework that explodes on the ground, shooting sparks upward.

  • Mine (noun)

    The cavity made by a caterpillar while feeding inside a leaf.

  • Mine (noun)

    A machine used to extract units of a cryptocurrency.

  • Mine (noun)

    alternative form of mien

  • 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.”

  • Mine (verb)

    To dig into, for ore or metal.

  • 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.”

  • Mine (verb)

    To damage (a vehicle or ship) with a mine (an explosive device).

  • Mine (verb)

    To dig a tunnel or hole; to burrow in the earth.

    “the mining cony”

  • 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.

  • Mine (verb)

    To pick one’s nose.

  • Mine (verb)

    To earn new units of cryptocurrency by doing certain calculations.

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