mine² /mīn/

1. A place from which minerals, esp coal or precious metals, are dug (not usu a source of building-stone, and legally distinguished from a quarry by being artificially lighted)
2. A cavity in the earth (archaic)
3. A burrowing animal's gallery, such as an insect's in a leaf
4. An excavation dug under a position to give secret ingress, to subvert it, or to blow it up (military)
5. An explosive charge placed in this
6. A submerged or floating charge of explosives in a metal case to destroy ships
7. A landmine
8. A rich source (figurative)

1. To excavate, tunnel, make passages in or under
2. To obtain by excavation
3. To exploit (a natural resource) without, or at a faster rate than, replenishing it
4. To work as a miner
5. To bring down or blow up by a mine
6. To cover (an area) with explosive mines
7. To lay explosive mines in or under

1. To dig or work a mine or mines
2. To tunnel
3. To burrow
4. To lay mines
5. To proceed secretly or insidiously (figurative)

minˈable or mineˈable adjective

miˈner noun

1. A person who works in a mine
2. A soldier who lays mines
3. An insect or other animal that makes galleries in the earth, leaves, etc
4. A honeyeater of the genus Manorina (Aust)

minˈing noun and adjective

minˈy adjective

1. Relating to mines
2. Like a mine

mineˈ-captain noun

The overseer of a mine

mine detection noun

mine detector noun

An electromagnetic apparatus for detecting explosive mines

mine dump noun (S Afr)

A large mound of mining residue

mineˈfield noun

1. An area laid with explosive mines
2. An enterprise, etc containing many potential hazards or traps (figurative)

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