Dictionary Entry
mine
mine is a 4-letter English word with 16 senses as noun, pronoun & adjective, intransitive verb, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: See Mien. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
4 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 8 · 16 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
See Mien.
- 2pronoun & adjective
Belonging to me; my. Used as a pronominal to me; my. Used as a pronominal adjective in the predicate; as, "Vengeance is mine; I will repay." Rom. xii. 19. Also, in the old style, used attributively, instead of my, before a noun beginning with a vowel.
- 3intransitive verb
To dig a mine or pit in the earth; to get ore, metals, coal, or precious stones, out of the earth; to dig in the earth for minerals; to dig a passage or cavity under anything in order to overthrow it by explosives or otherwise.
- 4intransitive verb
To form subterraneous tunnel or hole; to form a burrow or lodge in the earth; as, the mining cony.
- 5transitive 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.
- 6transitive verb
To dig into, for ore or metal.
- 7transitive verb
To get, as metals, out of the earth by digging.
- 8intransitive verb
A subterranean cavity or passage
- 9intransitive verb
A pit or excavation in the earth, from which metallic ores, precious stones, coal, or other mineral substances are taken by digging; -- distinguished from the pits from which stones for architectural purposes are taken, and which are called quarries.
- 10intransitive verb
A cavity or tunnel made under a fortification or other work, for the purpose of blowing up the superstructure with some explosive agent.
- 11intransitive verb
Any place where ore, metals, or precious stones are got by digging or washing the soil; as, a placer mine.
- 12intransitive verb
Fig.: A rich source of wealth or other good.
- 13noun
explosive device that explodes on contact; designed to destroy vehicles or ships or to kill or maim personnel
- 14noun
excavation in the earth from which ores and minerals are extracted
- 15verb
lay mines
"The Vietnamese mined Cambodia"
- 16verb
get from the earth by excavation
"mine ores and metals"
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