Alternative forms

• myne (obsolete)

Pronoun

mine (plural mine)Category:English lemmas#MINECategory:English pronouns#MINECategory:English possessive pronouns#MINECategory:English first person pronouns#MINECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#MINECategory:Pages with entries#MINECategory:Pages with 24 entries#MINE

1. That or those belonging to me.
   1. Used predicatively.

      The house itself is mine, but the land is not.Category:English terms with usage examples#MINE

      These books are mine.Category:English terms with usage examples#MINE

      • 1905, E. M. Forster, Where Angels Fear to Tread , chapter 7:

        "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."

        Category:English terms with quotations#MINE
   2. Used substantively, with an implied noun.

      Mine has been a long journey.Category:English terms with usage examples#MINE

   3. Used absolutely, set off from the sentence.

      Mine for only a week so far, it already feels like an old friend.Category:English terms with usage examples#MINE

   5. (informalCategory:English informal terms#MINE) My house or home.

      We had the party at mine.

      Category:English terms with usage examples#MINE

   6. As double possessive.

      This house of mine is over 100 years old.Category:English terms with usage examples#MINE

Determiner

mineCategory:English lemmas#MINECategory:English determiners#MINECategory:English possessive determiners#MINECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#MINECategory:Pages with entries#MINECategory:Pages with 24 entries#MINE

1. (archaicCategory:English terms with archaic senses#MINE or nonstandardCategory:English nonstandard terms#MINE) My; belonging to me.
   • 1936 December 23, Hazel Livingston, “‘Love’s Litany’”, in Walter V. Hogan, editor, The Daily Reporter, volume XX, number 53, White Plains, N.Y.: White Plains Publishing Company, →OCLC, chapter IX, page 18, column 4:

     Well, then, fix it up nice, waiter, and make mine baked hash an’ mashed ’taters and stewed corn and waiter!—plain white bread, no fancy rolls!

     Category:English terms with quotations#MINE

   1. Used attributively after the noun it modifies.
      • 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:

        […] Flesh and blood, / You, brother mine, that entertain'd ambition, / […]

        Category:English terms with quotations#MINE

   2. Used attributively before a vowel.
      • 1862 February, Julia Ward Howe, “The Battle Hymn of the Republic”, in The Atlantic Monthly, volume IX, number LII, page 10:

        Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord: / […]

        Category:English terms with quotations#MINE

      • 1930 Winter, Packard Motor Car Company, The Packard Magazine, Volume 9, Number 2, page 6,

        Mine host, it seemed, did favors for everybody...

Noun

mine (plural mines)Category:English lemmas#MINECategory:English nouns#MINECategory:English countable nouns#MINECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#MINECategory:Pages with entries#MINECategory:Pages with 24 entries#MINE

2. An excavation from which ore or solid minerals are taken, especially one consisting of underground tunnels.

   Hypernyms: placeCategory:English links with manual fragments#MINE, siteCategory:English links with manual fragments#MINE

   Hyponyms: coal mine, coalmine; drift mine; gold mine, goldmine; open-pit mine; salt mine; strip-mine, strip mine; iron mine; powder mine; silver mine, silvermine; tin mine; urban mine

   Meronyms: mine shaft, mineshaft; mine car

   This diamond comes from a mine in South Africa.Category:English terms with usage examples#MINE

   He came out of the coal mine with a face covered in black.Category:English terms with usage examples#MINE

   Most coal and ore comes from open-pit mines nowadays.Category:English terms with usage examples#MINE

4. (figurative) Any source of wealth or resources.

   She's a mine of information about the history of mathematics.Category:English terms with usage examples#MINE

   • 1962 December, “Beyond the Channel: U.S.S.R.: Train speeds still rising”, in Modern Railways, page 418:

     To those seeking information about train services on the Continent, Cook's Continental Guide is always a mine of accurate information.

     Category:English terms with quotations#MINE

6. (militaryCategory:en:Military#MINE) A passage dug toward or underneath enemy lines, which is then packed with explosives.

   The most famous mine of the American Civil War led to the Battle of the Crater.

   Category:English terms with usage examples#MINE

8. (militaryCategory:en:Military#MINE) A device intended to explode when stepped upon or touched, or when approached by a ship, vehicle, or person.

   Hypernyms: munitionCategory:English links with manual fragments#MINE < weaponCategory:English links with manual fragments#MINE

   Hyponyms: Bangalore mine; bounding mine; butterfly mine; land mine, landmine; limpet mine; magnetic mine; naval mine; proximity mine; proxy mine

   Holonym: minefield

   His left leg was blown off after he stepped on a mine.Category:English terms with usage examples#MINE

   The warship was destroyed by floating mines.Category:English terms with usage examples#MINE

   • 1940 May, “Overseas Railways: Icebound Denmark”, in Railway Magazine, page 302:

     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; [...].

     Category:English terms with quotations#MINE

10. (pyrotechnicsCategory:en:Pyrotechnics#MINE) A type of firework that explodes on the ground, shooting sparks upward.
12. (entomologyCategory:en:Entomology#MINE) The cavity made by a caterpillar while feeding inside a leaf.
14. (computingCategory:en:Computing#MINE) A machine or network of machines used to extract units of a cryptocurrency.

    A change to the blockchain method was contemplated to allow mines to hog less electric power.

    Category:English terms with usage examples#MINE

Verb

mine (third-person singular simple present mines, present participle mining, simple past and past participle mined)Category:English lemmas#MINECategory:English verbs#MINECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#MINECategory:Pages with entries#MINECategory:Pages with 24 entries#MINE

1. (ambitransitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#MINECategory:English intransitive verbs#MINE) To remove (rock or ore) from the ground.

   Crater of Diamonds State Park is the only place in the world where visitors can mine their own diamonds.Category:English terms with usage examples#MINE

2. To dig into, for ore or metal.
   • 1837, Andrew Ure, Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures and Mines:

     Lead veins have been traced […] but they have not been mined.

     Category:English terms with quotations#MINE

     Category:Quotation templates to be cleaned
3. (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#MINE) To sow mines (the explosive devices) in (an area).

   We had to slow our advance after the enemy mined the road ahead of us.Category:English terms with usage examples#MINE

4. (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#MINE) To damage (a vehicle or ship) with a mine (an explosive device).
5. (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#MINE) To dig a tunnel or hole; to burrow in the earth.

   the mining conyCategory:English terms with usage examples#MINE

6. To dig away, or otherwise remove, the substratum or foundation of; to lay a mine under; to sap; to undermine.
   • a. 1628 (date written), John Hayward, The Life, and Raigne of King Edward the Sixt, London: […] [Eliot’s Court Press, and J. Lichfield at Oxford?] for Iohn Partridge, […], published 1630, →OCLC:

     They mined the walls.

     Category:English terms with quotations#MINE

   • 1814 July 7, [Walter Scott], Waverley; or, ’Tis Sixty Years Since. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh:  […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC:

     Too lazy, perhaps, to cut [these immense trees] down, the spoilers […] had mined them, and placed a quantity of gunpowder in the cavity.

     Category:English terms with quotations#MINE

7. (by extension, figurative) To ruin or destroy by slow degrees or secret means.
8. (by extension, figurative) To tap into.
9. (slangCategory:English slang#MINE) To pick one's nose.
11. (cryptocurrenciesCategory:en:Cryptocurrency#MINE) To earn new units of cryptocurrency by doing certain calculations.

    Coordinate term: mint

    • 2021 March 9, Andrew Ross Sorkin, “Bitcoin's Climate Problem”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:

      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.

      Category:English terms with quotations#MINE

Noun

mine (plural mines)Category:English lemmas#MINECategory:English nouns#MINECategory:English countable nouns#MINECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#MINECategory:Pages with entries#MINECategory:Pages with 24 entries#MINE

1. Alternative form of mien.

Inflection

See also

Noun

mine f (plural mines)Category:French lemmas#MINECategory:French nouns#MINECategory:French countable nouns#MINECategory:French entries with incorrect language header#MINECategory:French feminine nouns#MINECategory:Pages with entries#MINECategory:Pages with 24 entries#MINE

1. mine (excavation or explosive)
2. pencil lead
3. (soccerCategory:fr:Football (soccer)#MINE) piledriver, scorcher

Noun

mine f (plural mines)Category:French lemmas#MINECategory:French nouns#MINECategory:French countable nouns#MINECategory:French entries with incorrect language header#MINECategory:French feminine nouns#MINECategory:Pages with entries#MINECategory:Pages with 24 entries#MINE

1. appearance, physical aspect; expression

Verb

mineCategory:French non-lemma forms#MINECategory:French verb forms#MINECategory:French entries with incorrect language header#MINECategory:Pages with entries#MINECategory:Pages with 24 entries#MINE

1. inflection of miner:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Noun

mine fCategory:Middle Dutch lemmas#MINECategory:Middle Dutch nouns#MINECategory:Middle Dutch entries with incorrect language header#MINECategory:Middle Dutch feminine nouns#MINECategory:Pages with entries#MINECategory:Pages with 24 entries#MINE

1. ore vein, mine

Determiner

mineCategory:Middle Dutch non-lemma forms#MINECategory:Middle Dutch determiner forms#MINECategory:Middle Dutch entries with incorrect language header#MINECategory:Pages with entries#MINECategory:Pages with 24 entries#MINE

1. inflection of mijn:
   1. feminine nominative/accusative singular
   2. nominative/accusative plural

Antonyms

• joh

References

• Harrison, Sheldon P., Mokilese-English Dictionary, University of Hawaii Press 1977
• Harrison, Sheldon P., Mokilese Reference Grammar, University of Hawaii Press 1977

Derived terms

Noun

mine f (definite singular mina, indefinite plural miner, definite plural minene)Category:Norwegian Nynorsk lemmas#MINECategory:Norwegian Nynorsk nouns#MINECategory:Norwegian Nynorsk entries with incorrect language header#MINECategory:Norwegian Nynorsk feminine nouns#MINECategory:Pages with entries#MINECategory:Pages with 24 entries#MINE

1. a mine (excavation or explosive)

Verb

mine (present tense minar/miner, past tense mina/minte, past participle mina/mint, passive infinitive minastCategory:Norwegian Nynorsk links with redundant wikilinks#MINECategory:Norwegian Nynorsk links with redundant alt parameters#MINE, present participle minandeCategory:Norwegian Nynorsk links with redundant wikilinks#MINECategory:Norwegian Nynorsk links with redundant alt parameters#MINE, imperative mine/min)Category:Norwegian Nynorsk lemmas#MINECategory:Norwegian Nynorsk verbs#MINECategory:Norwegian Nynorsk entries with incorrect language header#MINECategory:Pages with entries#MINECategory:Pages with 24 entries#MINECategory:Norwegian Nynorsk weak verbs

1. alternative form of mina

Determiner

mineCategory:Norwegian Nynorsk non-lemma forms#MINECategory:Norwegian Nynorsk determiner forms#MINECategory:Norwegian Nynorsk entries with incorrect language header#MINECategory:Pages with entries#MINECategory:Pages with 24 entries#MINE

1. plural of min