mine1 pronounmine2 nounmine3 verb
minemine1 /maɪn/ ●●● S1 pronoun [possessive form of ‘I’] 
Longman Language Activatorways of saying that no one knows something
· Maybe the world will end tomorrow. Who can say?· He might come back and say he still loves me, who knows? Who cares?who knows/who can say what/where/why etc · Who knows whether Mimi ever made it to Paris.
spoken say this when you mean that it is impossible to know something: · "Where'd she go?" "God knows."God knows/heaven knows what/who/why etc: · I've just missed my train, so God knows what time I'll get home now.· Heaven knows why she feels she can't trust her own parents.
spoken say this when neither you, nor anyone else knows the answer to a question or the truth about something, and any answer could be correct: · How he'd lived through it all is anybody's guess.it's anybody's guess who/what/why etc: · It's anybody's guess who will come out on top when the winners are announced at the Grammy Awards this year.
spoken say this when it is impossible to know what will happen, especially when you are worried that something bad might happen: there's no telling/knowing who/what/why etc: · "He's a desperate man. There's no telling what he'll do next," said Holmes.· There was no knowing when the flood waters might recede with so much rain in the forecast.
spoken say this when someone asks you a question and you do not know the answer, so that they are just as likely to guess the right answer as you are: · "Who do you think will win the World Cup?" "Your guess is as good as mine."
when someone owns something if something belongs to someone, they own it: · This watch belonged to my grandfather.· Who does that Walkman belong to?· A car believed to belong to the bank robbers was found abandoned yesterday.
formal to belong to someone - often written on books, clothes etc to show who owns them: · This hymn book is the property of Pitt Street Methodist Church.· If he defaults on the loan, the land will become the property of the bank.
if something is mine/yours/John's etc , it belongs to me, you, John etc: · "Hey, that's my pen!" - "Sorry! I didn't know it was yours."· "Whose bike is that?" "It's Martin's."· The money wasn't Sara's to lend you in the first place (=Sara didn't have the right to lend it).
belonging to me, you, him etc: · Please can you move your car? It's blocking my driveway.· I've got a problem with my dishwasher.· My grandmother lives near your place -- just around the corner in fact.
belonging to you and not to anyone else: · You can rent skis or you can bring your own.· Joe left the company to set up his own business.
: a room/car/computer etc of your own one that belongs to you and no one else, especially when this is something you want to own: · Our neighbours let us use their garage, but we really need one of our own.· The charity provides accommodation for homeless people, and helps them find homes of their own.
belonging only to you - used especially in official contexts: somebody's personal possessions/property/belongings: · The dead man's personal possessions were sent back to his family.my/their etc own personal: · You can arm and disarm the alarm system using your own personal access code.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY
I want you to meet an old friend of mine.COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a 300-foot elevator shaft
I want you to meet an old friend of mine.· She was brought up in a small mining community in North Wales.
· A friend of mine is going to Tokyo next week.
a 300-foot elevator shaftPHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
used by the person speaking or writing to refer to something that belongs to or is connected with himself or herself: - "When's the next bus coming?" "Your guess is as good as mine."
- "Who do you think will win the World Cup?" "Your guess is as good as mine."
It was Glen’s idea, not mine. ‘Is that your car?’ ‘No, mine is parked over the road.’ You’ve got good legs – mine are too thin. His English is better than mine.of mine I want you to meet an old friend of mine.mine1 pronounmine2 nounmine3 verb
minemine2 ●●○ W3 noun [countable] WORD ORIGINmine2
Origin:
1300-1400 Old French, Vulgar Latin minaEXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- an old gold mine
- Before World War I more than a million workers labored in the coal mines of Great Britain.
- But Wheal Jane, Cornwall's biggest mine, has announced that it wants to extend its workings.
- Deliberately he walked into the minefield, triggering off every mine and thus absorbing in his own body the entire explosion.
- He was scarcely out of school before he had patented a rock-boring machine for coal mines.
- In it are the different specimens of salt which are found in the mine, some of the red and white crystals.
- Nothing has yet happened in the mines.
- The barrier between the mines could be tunnelled through and an escape route created.
- The world price for tin is high and so companies have been opening new larger mines in Cornwall.
THESAURUS
a weapon that explodes: · The bomb exploded on a bus in Jerusalem during the city’s morning rush hour.· Fifty-five people were injured in a car bomb attack in Baghdad.· Morrow was convicted in 1998 of sending four letter bombs (=a small bomb hidden in a package and sent to someone in order to hurt or kill them) to government officials.· People were worried that terrorists would try to detonate a dirty bomb (=a bomb that contains nuclear materials)in the city centre.
bombs or substances that can cause explosions: · They used explosives to blow the door off the front of the building.· The car was packed with 1,000 lbs of high explosives (=powerful explosives).
a bomb – used especially in news reports: · Police found the device hidden in a suitcase.· A bomb threat was received and the building was evacuated, but no device was found.
a bomb that has been made using whatever materials are available, especially one used to blow up soldiers travelling through a place. IED is short for ‘improvised explosive device’: · Several soldiers were killed when an IED exploded as their convoy drove by.
a type of bomb that is hidden just below the ground or under water, and that explodes when it is touched: · The fields are still full of landmines.· The ship struck a mine and sank.
(also hand grenade) a small bomb that can be thrown by hand or fired from a special gun: · He pulled the pin and threw a grenade toward the enemy’s position.
Longman Language Activatorknowing a lot about something someone who is knowledgeable knows a lot of different facts, especially about a particular subject or activity: · Visitors should use reputable travel firms with knowledgeable guides, and avoid camping alone.knowledgeable about/in: · Gradually the band became more knowledgeable about the business dealings in the music industry.
knowing a lot about what is happening, especially about what is happening in the world: · "Le Monde' is a newspaper designed for well-informed readers.· According to one well-informed source, the two sides are very near to reaching an agreement.well-informed about: · Abdul Karim was particularly well- informed about American politics.
to know a lot about a particular subject or about various subjects, so that you are usually able to answer anything that people ask you: · The British Ambassador proved to be a mine of information on the subject of the Royal Family.
British /be up on American spoken to know a lot about something, including the most recent information: · How well up are you on men's fashion?· Don't ask me - I'm not really up on current events in that part of the world.
to always know what changes and developments are happening in a particular situation or organization: have your finger on the pulse of: · As a manager of a bookshop, I have to have my finger on the pulse of the publishing industry.
to make sure that you know all the most recent news about what is happening somewhere or about new developments in a particular subject: · When we lived abroad, we always kept abreast of what was happening at home.· It's very important for students to keep up to date with developments in their own field of study.
WORD SETScar bomb, noundefuse, verbdevice, noundisarm, verbexplosion, nounexplosive, nounfuse, nounguerrilla, noungunman, noungunpowder, noungun-running, nounletter bomb, nounmine, nounmine, verbminefield, nounMolotov cocktail, nounparamilitary, adjectivepetrol bomb, nounSemtex, nounterror, nounterrorism, nounterrorist, nountime bomb, noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY one of the largest coal mines in the country They learnt how to lay mines (=put them in place). The ship struck a mine and sank.COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a 300-foot elevator shaftCOLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
one of the largest coal mines in the country They learnt how to lay mines (=put them in place). The ship struck a mine and sank.· She was brought up in a small mining community in North Wales.
· A friend of mine is going to Tokyo next week.
a 300-foot elevator shaft· A count of women and children at copper mines in 1787 suggests that then women workers may have numbered around 1,500.· Economic unrest Workers at coal and copper mines went on strike during late July, demanding wage rises and improved conditions.· Among the worst culprits, the report says, are copper mines.· Male speaker I worked in a copper mine for nearly three years, 18 hours a day, seven days a week.
· The deeper mines filled easily with water but, unlike coal mines, they were safe from roof collapse.· It recommends halving opencast within five years and subsidising deep mines by over £5 per tonne to produce the coal instead of us!· This is only partly because digging and operating deep mines is, in itself, extremely difficult.· The implication of that for Nottinghamshire's deep mines is catastrophic.· Here the National Coal Board is investing Government money to sink new deep mines, each costing about £50 million.· The move could see the company operating golf courses and industrial estates along with deep and opencast mines.· Ffoss Las is the deepest opencast mine going to a depth of 650 feet.
· Her experience, I reasoned, would have been so different from mine.· And his family was very different from mine.· His thought processes are entirely different from mine.· MotherRisk's view is different from mine.· I stipulated that it had to be different from mine.· Their lives were very different from mine.
· We'd found a gold mine.· A gold mine may be coming into Lincoln one day.· Security Man in the gold mines.· And ultimately, that could be its real gold mine.· It is even possible to sow plants on gold mines to reap their treasure.· Behind him is the abyss, the gaping cavern of the gold mine, down and down into the earth.· Six months were spent in a gold mine as a geological assistant.· It would be so easy to believe that the Raiders had finally tunneled through, finding their own gold mine of talent.
· Authorities encourage large pit-mines, pointing to the employment they create.· The world price for tin is high and so companies have been opening new larger mines in Cornwall.· Broken Hill has a large new platinum mine there.· In a 1952 revolution they overthrew a military regime and won nationalization of the large mines under workers' co-management.· Why are the new large mines much deeper?
· Some old mine buildings in the distance, some gravel pits.· Exploring old mines and ghost towns.· Some environmentalists have expressed concern that using old mines as waste dumps could be both dangerous and expensive.· After examining the wreck, we continue along the faint remains of the old mine road, just west of Mescal Peak.· This small working is another of these old mines which was dug open and entered by the writer years ago.· We follow the old mine road back to the truck.· Deeper still nameless horrors crawled into the old Dwarf mines and settled in the long-abandoned depths.· Many of the hillsides are honeycombed with old mine tunnels.
· These are by Platzer of 1759 and serve as a reminder of the wealth of the silver mines in Bohemia and Silesia.· I walked on that box for three months till I got work in a silver mine.
· The Montagne is dotted with small lignite mines, many deserted, which have traditionally supplied the Champagne grower.· APCs were vulnerable to smaller mines, and trucks or jeeps were obviously in even more danger.· Undoubtedly this is the small mine up in the head of Red Dell.· It was interested in taking over a small mine called Wheal Concord but pulled out because financial prospects were poor.· Local producers can, depending on transportation costs, more readily locate refining and smelting units near small mines.· Within 2 days of the start, an explosion had wrecked a drilling machine at a small non-union mine.
NOUN· I worked in the coal mines for three years to obtain my colliery manager's certificate.· The cars are usually air-conditioned, but the platforms are as comfy as coal mines.· The cleft stick plight which is his current political position is displayed most vividly over Mr Heseltine's coal mine dilemma.· Instead you want to work in the coal mines with the rest of them.· Other co-products include calcium chloride, with applications ranging from the oil and chemical industries to dust-laying in coal mines.· These tough animals, who live on the moors year round, were once used extensively in the coal mines.· The deeper mines filled easily with water but, unlike coal mines, they were safe from roof collapse.
· We'd been providing cover for the convoy, when a vehicle went over a land mine.· The story deals with the aftermath of warfare, particularly the devastation wreaked by land mines.· To deplore children being crippled by land mines is not really at the pinnacle of human courage, is it?· Rifle grenades, land mines, dynamite, antitank guns, mortar shells.· Ferric had land mines stacked in his kitchen.· The driver let the blade down and detonated a land mine.· Only the simpler, uglier land mine has shed more blood.
· He was in a lead mine when the bomb went off, and escaped damage.· The remains of eighteenth-century lead mines on the Pennines are preserved.· Old lead mines in the Pennine Hills were being closed.· Better than the lead mines of Yakutsia.
· Miners saw their employers, the mine owners, as wicked and morally corrupt.· Fortunes were made by some mine owners and millions of pounds'-worth of lead was taken.
· He invented the Cornish engine, a beam engine of Brobdingnagian proportions used mainly for pumping water out of tin mines.· Why were most of the tin mines in Cornwall closed earlier this century?· The expanding copper and tin mines of west Cornwall depended on mule trains until the second quarter of the nineteenth century.· Producing tin mine with co-product zinc and by-product copper and silver.· In the late nineteenth century a succession of small lines had been built to connect the Malayan tin mines to the coast.· At one time there were 400 tin mines in Cornwall alone.
VERB· Yeb's big hand closes around mine, and we wait in strangled silence to be delivered.· Even before they closed the mine we knew that once they retired my husband we'd have to move.· I suppose once we didn't need the coal so badly they closed the mine down, then the railway.· I felt their arms on my shoulders and their ripe, expectant, human faces very close to mine.
· They lay mine fields or clear them up, provide demolitions and surprisingly provide the water source for units in action.· After the men were down, soldiers from each position would lay out claymore mines.· We were taught about hand grenades and explosives, and how to set ambushes and lay mines in the most effective pattern.· There were also ten 21-inch torpedo tubes, and it possessed the ability to lay up to 240 mines.
· I worked in the coal mines for three years to obtain my colliery manager's certificate.· And from Sonoma men rode or walked north to work the mines of the southern Sierra.· The interrogators were quietly sacked and sent to work in the coal mines.· The guys who work the Rosemont mine will just be the guys who move over from the Mission unit.· For the next ten years he travelled the world, visiting and working in mines and quarries in every continent.· He and some friends were working the mine, digging out turquoise.· John Blackwall now reappears, five years after first expressing his interest in working Sir Daniel's mines.· Ainslie spent at least five years working in mines before becoming a federal inspector about 13 years ago, Hansen said.
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRYPHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
1a deep hole or holes in the ground that people dig so that they can remove coal, gold, tin etccoal/gold/copper etc mine- A trip to Brussels to meet the responsible officials can turn up a mine of information.
- His column in the Angling Times was the first thing that I turned to and what a mine of information.
- If used properly, the diary was a mine of information.
- Study a local map and the Ordnance Survey, which is a mine of information.
- "When's the next bus coming?" "Your guess is as good as mine."
- "Who do you think will win the World Cup?" "Your guess is as good as mine."
one of the largest coal mines in the countryin/down a mine the time when children used to work down the mines2a type of bomb that is hidden just below the ground or under water and that explodes when it is touched: They learnt how to lay mines (=put them in place). The ship struck a mine and sank. → landmine3a mine of information (about/on something) someone or something that can give you a lot of information about a particular subject and that is therefore very useful or helpful: The website is a mine of information about all forms of cancer.mine1 pronounmine2 nounmine3 verb
minemine3 ●○○ verb (past tense and past participle mined, present participle mining) VERB TABLE
mine
| Simple Form | ||
| Present | I, you, we, they | mine |
| he, she, it | mines | |
| Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | mined |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have mined |
| he, she, it | has mined | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had mined |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will mine |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have mined |
| Continuous Form | ||
| Present | I | am mining |
| he, she, it | is mining | |
| you, we, they | are mining | |
| Past | I, he, she, it | was mining |
| you, we, they | were mining | |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been mining |
| he, she, it | has been mining | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been mining |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be mining |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been mining |
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- Lead has been mined in this area for hundreds of years.
- Most of the new settlers came here to mine for gold.
- Simon mines his childhood experiences for his plays.
- The border is heavily mined.
- The church was built by Don Jose de la Borda, who made his fortune mining silver.
- The Chechen rebels can still mount hit-and-run attacks, mining roads and ambushing convoys.
Longman Language Activatorto remove something from the ground by digging
to remove something that is just below or partly below the surface of the ground by digging: dig somebody/something out: · What do we do with these trees after we've dug them out?· The spade was missing, and we had no choice but to dig the weeds out by hand.dig out something: · A couple of local people helped us dig out the car, which was by now completely stuck in the mud.
to dig, and remove something from the ground that is buried or that is growing there: dig up something: · Thieves came in the night and dug up the body.· I don't know why archaeologists get such a thrill from digging up broken pots.dig something up: · Squirrels bury hundreds of nuts, then dig them up in winter when food is scarce.
to remove ancient objects from the ground or uncover ancient houses, villages etc, by taking away the earth carefully: · Archaeologists are excavating a Bronze Age settlement on the outskirts of the village.· The mosaics excavated in 1989 have now been fully restored.
to take minerals such as coal, iron, or diamonds out of the ground, especially by digging a deep hole and a series of passages: · Lead has been mined in this area for hundreds of years.· The church was built by Don José de la Borda, who made his fortune mining silver.mine for gold/silver etc: · Most of the new settlers came here to mine for gold.
WORD SETScar bomb, noundefuse, verbdevice, noundisarm, verbexplosion, nounexplosive, nounfuse, nounguerrilla, noungunman, noungunpowder, noungun-running, nounletter bomb, nounmine, nounmine, verbminefield, nounMolotov cocktail, nounparamilitary, adjectivepetrol bomb, nounSemtex, nounterror, nounterrorism, nounterrorist, nountime bomb, noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a 300-foot elevator shaftCOLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN
· She was brought up in a small mining community in North Wales.
· A friend of mine is going to Tokyo next week.
a 300-foot elevator shaft· For centuries small amounts of coal had been mined from shallow pits.· Poor, ignorant people in coal mines and steel mills?· Later they changed to steam power, using the coal which was mined locally.· There is something about coal mining that seems to brutalize a place.· In Britain in 1690 three million tons of coal were mined.· Much of the coal mined, however, may have been consumed domestically, or used for iron-smelting or lime-burning.
· Turquoise, originally considered a mere by-product of copper mining, was vigorously promoted by Waddell's father, B.C.· Salt Lake City decided in the 1970s to add high-technology development to its copper mining based economy.· Endless pollution from deep within a mountain side Iron Mountain is riddled with abandoned copper mines.· They mine the copper in the mining districts and they direct the trading stations...
· The growth of data mining has led many to worry about invasions of privacy by overzealous marketers.
· The file contained a gold mine.
· The two cleanly scrubbed grunts had made a final discovery: land mines last and last.· Every 22 minutes a man, woman or child is killed or maimed by a land mine.· Her stance on the question of land mines has been apolitical throughout.· There are an estimated 100 million land mines in 60 countries.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
1[intransitive, transitive] to dig large holes in the ground in order to remove coal, gold etc: - "When's the next bus coming?" "Your guess is as good as mine."
- "Who do you think will win the World Cup?" "Your guess is as good as mine."
Copper has been mined here since the sixteenth century. This area has been mined for over 300 years.mine for The company first started mining for salt in 1851.GRAMMAR Mine is often passive in this meaning when used as a transitive verb.2[transitive] to hide bombs in the sea or under the ground: All the roads leading to the village had been mined.GRAMMAR Mine is usually passive in this meaning.