mine
Part of speech: pron
noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: 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, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish min, Faroese and Icelandic mín.
Inflected forms:
form: mine
pos: pron
tags: plural
form: myne
pos: pron
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: mines
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: mines
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: mining
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: mined
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: mined
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: That or those belonging to me.
pos: pron
examples: The house itself is mine, but the land is not.
These books are mine.
Ah, but how beautiful (my baby boy) is! And he is mine, mine for ever. Even if he hates me he will be mine. He cannot help it, he is made out of me; I am his father.
gloss: That or those belonging to me.
pos: pron
examples: Mine has been a long journey.
gloss: That or those belonging to me.
pos: pron
examples: Mine for only a week so far, it already feels like an old friend.
gloss: That or those belonging to me.
pos: pron
tags: informal
examples: We had the party at mine.
gloss: That or those belonging to me.
pos: pron
examples: This house of mine is over 100 years old.
You have something of mine.
gloss: An excavation from which ore or solid minerals are taken, especially one consisting of underground tunnels.
pos: noun
examples: Meronyms: mine shaft, mineshaft; mine car
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.
gloss: Any source of wealth or resources.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: She's a mine of information about the history of mathematics.
To those seeking information about train services on the Continent, Cook's Continental Guide is always a mine of accurate information.
gloss: A passage dug toward or underneath enemy lines, which is then packed with explosives.
pos: noun
examples: The most famous mine of the American Civil War led to the Battle of the Crater.
gloss: A device intended to explode when stepped upon or touched, or when approached by a ship, vehicle, or person.
pos: noun
examples: Holonym: minefield
His left leg was blown off after he stepped on a mine.
The warship was destroyed by floating mines.
Pack ice, at times mounting to a height of 35 ft., snow, fog, and floating mines all played their part in the disorganisation of railway services, and most of the train ferry services were completely suspended for a month or more; [...].
gloss: A type of firework that explodes on the ground, shooting sparks upward.
pos: noun
gloss: The cavity made by a caterpillar while feeding inside a leaf.
pos: noun
gloss: A machine or network of machines used to extract units of a cryptocurrency.
pos: noun
examples: A change to the blockchain method was contemplated to allow mines to hog less electric power.
gloss: To remove (rock or ore) from the ground.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: Crater of Diamonds State Park is the only place in the world where visitors can mine their own diamonds.
gloss: To dig into, for ore or metal.
pos: verb
examples: Lead veins have been traced […] but they have not been mined.
gloss: To sow mines (the explosive devices) in (an area).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: We had to slow our advance after the enemy mined the road ahead of us.
gloss: To damage (a vehicle or ship) with a mine (an explosive device).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To dig a tunnel or hole; to burrow in the earth.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: the mining cony
gloss: To dig away, or otherwise remove, the substratum or foundation of; to lay a mine under; to sap; to undermine.
pos: verb
examples: They mined the walls.
Too lazy, perhaps, to cut [these immense trees] down, the spoilers […] had mined them, and placed a quantity of gunpowder in the cavity.
gloss: To ruin or destroy by slow degrees or secret means.
pos: verb
tags: broadly
figuratively
gloss: To tap into.
pos: verb
tags: broadly
figuratively
gloss: To pick one's nose.
pos: verb
tags: slang
gloss: To earn new units of cryptocurrency by doing certain calculations.
pos: verb
examples: 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.
Related words: Ime
me
myselfmemysen
mymineme
we
us
ourselvesourselfoursen
oursourn
our
you
yourselfyoursen
yoursyourn
your
thou
thee
thyselftheeselfthysen
thine
thythine
youye
yourselves
you ally'all you guys yous
y'allselves
all yours y'all's you guys' your guys'
all your y'all's your all's you guys' your guys'
he
him
himselfhisselfhissen
hishisn
his
she
her
herselfhersen
hershern
ithit
itselfhitself
itshis
itshishits
they
them
themself
themselves
theirs
their
one
oneself
–
one's
themhem
'em
themselvestheirsen
theirstheirn
The following table shows a list of English personal pronoun
including archaic and dialectal forms. Dialectal and obsolete
archaic forms are in italics. 1 See Appendix:English third-person singular pronouns for attested neopronoun.
Derived words: friend of mine
I got mine
of mine
stars o' mine
the pleasure is all mine
your guess is as good as mine
your place or mine
mine host
acoustic mine
antimine
anti-personnel mine
anti-tank mine
Bangalore mine
bounding mine
butterfly mine
coal mine
coalmine
countermine
drift mine
gold mine
goldmine
intermine
iron mine
ironmine
land mine
landmine
leaf miner
limpet mine
magnetic mine
megamine
mine car
minecar
minecart
mine cart
mine-clearing
Minecraft
minecraft
mine dial
minefield
mine flail
mineful
minehunter
minehunting
minelayer
minelaying
mineless
minelife
minelike
mine of information
mineowner
mine plow
mineral
mine roller
mine run
mines and minerals
mine shaft
mineshaft
minesite
minestone
minesweeper
minesweeping
minework
mineworker
mineworking
Minol
miny
naval mine
open-pit mine
powder mine
pre-mine
proximity mine
proxy mine
salt mine
salt the mine
sea mine
set mine
silver mine
State Mine Gully
strip-mine
strip mine
tin mine
urban mine
miner
premine
demine
minability
minable
mineable
mining
overmine
remine
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