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Mine

//maɪ̯n// det, noun, pron, verb, slang

Definitions

Determiner

1
My; belonging to me.; Used attributively after the noun it modifies. archaic
"[…] Flesh and blood, / You, brother mine, that entertain'd ambition, / […]"
2
My; belonging to me.; Used attributively before a vowel. archaic
"Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord: / […]"

Noun

1
An excavation from which ore or solid minerals are taken, especially one consisting of underground tunnels. Australia
"Meronyms: mine shaft, mineshaft; mine car"
2
Alternative form of mien. alt-of, alternative
3
explosive device that explodes on contact; designed to destroy vehicles or ships or to kill or maim personnel wordnet
4
Any source of wealth or resources. Australia, figuratively
"She's a mine of information about the history of mathematics."
5
excavation in the earth from which ores and minerals are extracted wordnet

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6
A passage dug toward or underneath enemy lines, which is then packed with explosives. Australia
"The most famous mine of the American Civil War led to the Battle of the Crater."
7
A device intended to explode when stepped upon or touched, or when approached by a ship, vehicle, or person. Australia
"Holonym: minefield"
8
A type of firework that explodes on the ground, shooting sparks upward. Australia
9
The cavity made by a caterpillar while feeding inside a leaf. Australia
10
A machine or network of machines used to extract units of a cryptocurrency. Australia
"A change to the blockchain method was contemplated to allow mines to hog less electric power."

Pronoun

1
That or those belonging to me.; Used predicatively.
"The house itself is mine, but the land is not."
2
Honorific alternative letter-case form of mine, sometimes used when referring to God or another important figure who is understood from context. alt-of, honorific
3
That or those belonging to me.; Used substantively, with an implied noun.
"Mine has been a long journey."
4
That or those belonging to me.; Used absolutely, set off from the sentence.
"Mine for only a week so far, it already feels like an old friend."
5
That or those belonging to me.; My house or home. informal
"We had the party at mine."

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6
That or those belonging to me.; As double possessive.
"This house of mine is over 100 years old."

Verb

1
To remove (rock or ore) from the ground. ambitransitive
"Crater of Diamonds State Park is the only place in the world where visitors can mine their own diamonds."
2
lay mines wordnet
3
To dig into, for ore or metal.
"Lead veins have been traced […] but they have not been mined."
4
get from the earth by excavation wordnet
5
To sow mines (the explosive devices) in (an area). transitive
"We had to slow our advance after the enemy mined the road ahead of us."

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6
To damage (a vehicle or ship) with a mine (an explosive device). transitive
7
To dig a tunnel or hole; to burrow in the earth. intransitive
"the mining cony"
8
To dig away, or otherwise remove, the substratum or foundation of; to lay a mine under; to sap; to undermine.
"They mined the walls."
9
To ruin or destroy by slow degrees or secret means. broadly, figuratively
10
To tap into. broadly, figuratively
11
To pick one's nose. slang
12
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."

Etymology

Etymology 1

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, Swedish and Norwegian min, Icelandic mín.

Etymology 2

Etymology 3

From Middle English, from Old French mine, from Late Latin mina, from Gaulish (compare to Welsh mwyn, Irish mianach (“ore”)), from Proto-Celtic *meinis (“ore, metal”).

Etymology 4

From Middle English, from Old French mine, from Late Latin mina, from Gaulish (compare to Welsh mwyn, Irish mianach (“ore”)), from Proto-Celtic *meinis (“ore, metal”).

Etymology 5

Borrowed from French mine.

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