MINE | Meaning, Definition In Cambridge English Dictionary

Meaning of mine in English minepronoun uk /maɪn/ us /maɪn/ Add to word list Add to word list A2 the one(s) belonging to or connected with me: "Whose bag is this?" "It's mine." Your son is the same age as mine.of mine She's an old friend of mine. Mine is the silver car, the convertible.

• He's my sister's friend really, not mine.
• Please could you back your car up a few feet so that I can get mine out of the drive?
• Here, your eyes are better than mine - could you thread this needle for me?
• Could I borrow a pen? I've lost mine.
• Pat's a great friend of mine.

Linguistics: possessive forms

• hers
• his
• its
• my
• our
• ours
• S, s
• the
• their
• theirs
• thine
• thy
• us
• yer
• your
• yours

Grammar

Pronouns: possessive (my, mine, your, yours, etc.)We use pronouns to refer to possession and ‘belonging’. There are two types: possessive pronouns and possessive determiners. We use possessive determiners before a noun. We use possessive pronouns in place of a noun: … minenoun [ C ] uk /maɪn/ us /maɪn/

mine noun [C] (HOLE)

B2 a hole or system of holes in the ground where substances such as coal, metal, and salt are removed: coal mine Many local young men work in the coal mine.gold mine It is one of California's few surviving gold mines.salt mine You can still visit the working salt mines. mine shaft Air was pumped down into the mine shaft to the men trapped underground.in the mines My grandfather used to work in the mines.down the mines Some boys used to be sent down the mines (= they worked in mines).   borchee/iStock/Getty Images Plus/GettyImages

• The minister maintained that the mines were uneconomic and would have to be closed.
• The nuclear waste is encased in concrete before being sent for storage in disused mines.
• He had worked in the diamond mines of South Africa.
• All the mines in this area were closed down in the 80's.
• The government was severely criticized for its decision to close the mines.

Engineering - mining & quarrying

• anti-mine
• banksman
• beneficiation
• biomining
• coal
• coal mining
• colliery
• extract
• gravel pit
• oilfield
• OPEC
• pay dirt
• pit pony
• prospect
• rig
• shaft
• sidetrack
• slag heap
• surface mining
• unworked

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mine noun [C] (BOMB)

a type of bomb put below the earth or in the sea that explodes when vehicles, ships, or people go over it: lay a mine hit a mine step on a mine run over a mine He was killed when his tank ran over a mine.clear something of mines The US forces were clearing the surrounding area of mines. See also landmine

• They had laid mines across the road.
• Her leg was blown off when the mine exploded.
• We do not know if there are mines in the area.

Bombs & missiles

• A-bomb
• anti-mine
• anti-missile
• anti-radar
• anti-satellite
• daisy cutter
• defuse
• depth charge
• dirty bomb
• enrich
• letter bomb
• limpet
• limpet mine
• minefield
• missile
• shrapnel
• silo
• smart bomb
• smoke bomb
• submunition

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Idiom

a mine of information mineverb uk /maɪn/ us /maɪn/

mine verb (DIG)

[ I or T ] to dig coal or another substance out of the ground: mine for The company is mining for gold and diamonds. They mine a lot of copper around these parts. Engineering - mining & quarrying

• anti-mine
• banksman
• beneficiation
• biomining
• coal
• coal mining
• colliery
• extract
• gravel pit
• oilfield
• OPEC
• pay dirt
• pit pony
• prospect
• rig
• shaft
• sidetrack
• slag heap
• surface mining
• unworked

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Digging

mine verb (BOMB)

[ T often passive ] to place or hide mines in an area of land or sea: be heavily mined The desert was heavily mined. Detonation & bombardment

• aerial bombardment
• aerial photograph
• air raid
• airstrike
• blanket bombing
• bomb
• carpet bombing
• detonate
• detonation
• detonator
• direct hit
• go off phrasal verb
• guidance
• loose
• pepper
• pepper something with something phrasal verb
• petrol bomb
• prime
• refire
• shell

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mine verb (GET INFORMATION)

[ T ] to use special software to look at large amounts of computer data in order to find out useful information: There is a lot of banking data just waiting to be mined. The program mines text using a variety of Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques. The software mines companies' databases for sales opportunities. See also data mining Searching

• beachcomb
• beachcomber
• beachcombing
• body search
• bounty hunter
• comb
• forage
• frisk
• grope your way
• hot on someone's/something's heels idiom
• house hunting
• house-hunt
• hunt
• rake
• rifle
• root around (somewhere) phrasal verb
• root something/someone out phrasal verb
• rummage
• scour
• trawl

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Computer programming & software

mine verb (GET CURRENCY)

[ T ] to use special software to try to obtain new cryptocurrency (= digital currency produced by a public network rather than by a government): Since 2009, the number of bitcoins mined has skyrocketed.

Idiom

mine a rich seam of something minedeterminer   old use uk /maɪn/ us /maɪn/ used in the past instead of "my" before nouns that begin with a vowel or h : mine eyes mine host Linguistics: possessive forms

• hers
• his
• its
• my
• our
• ours
• S, s
• the
• their
• theirs
• thine
• thy
• us
• yer
• your
• yours

(Definition of mine from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

mine | American Dictionary

minepronoun us /mɑɪn/

mine pronoun (BELONGING TO ME)

Add to word list Add to word list belonging to me, or that which belongs to me: "Whose bag is this?" "It’s mine." Your hair is longer than mine. She’s a friend of mine. minenoun [ C ] us /mɑɪn/

mine noun [C] (HOLE)

a deep hole in the ground made for the removal of coal and other substances by digging: a gold mine A mine is also where something can be found: Belinda is a mine of information about home decorating.

mine noun [C] (BOMB)

a bomb put underground or in the sea that explodes when vehicles, ships, or people go over or near it A mine detector is a device used to discover whether there are mines in a particular area. mineverb us /mɑɪn/

mine verb (DIG IN HOLE)

[ I/T ] to remove coal or other substances from a deep hole in the ground: [ T ] They mine copper in this area.

mine verb (BOMB)

[ T ] to hide mines in an area: The desert has been heavily mined. (Definition of mine from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

mine | Business English

minenoun [ C ]   NATURAL RESOURCES, PRODUCTION uk /maɪn/ us Add to word list Add to word list a place in the ground where substances such as coal, metal, and salt are removed, or the area and buildings around this place: in/down the mine 2,000 people work down the mine. a coal/salt/gold mine a mine shaft mineverb [ I or T ]   NATURAL RESOURCES, PRODUCTION uk /maɪn/ us to dig coal or another substance out of the ground: mine for sth They're mining for salt. They mine a lot of copper around these parts. (Definition of mine from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Collocations with mine

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mine clearanceSuch a condition could have serious consequences in some situations such as during mine clearance operations. From the Cambridge English Corpus   mine ownerIt is a moral certainty that the mine owner passes everything on to the occupier of the mine. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0   mine reclamationExperts said it would require years and millions of dollars in mine reclamation and remediation to create a garden that could use on-site water. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.   These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. See all collocations with mine What is the pronunciation of mine?

Translations of mine

in Chinese (Traditional) 我的（所有物）, 屬於我的（東西）, 與我有關的（人）… See more in Chinese (Simplified) 我的（所有物）, 属于我的（东西）, 与我有关的（人）… See more in Spanish mío, de mí, mina… See more in Portuguese o(s) meu(s), a(s) minha(s), mina… See more in Marathi in Japanese in Turkish in French in Catalan in Dutch in Tamil in Hindi in Gujarati in Danish in Swedish in Malay in German in Norwegian in Urdu in Ukrainian in Telugu in Bengali in Czech in Indonesian in Thai in Vietnamese in Polish in Korean in Italian माझे, माझी, खाण… See more 私のもの、”I” の所有代名詞, 鉱山, 地雷… See more benimki, maden, maden ocağı… See more le mien [masculine], la mienne [feminine], les miens [masculine… See more (el) meu, mina, extreure… See more van mij, mijn, delven… See more ஏதேனும் ஒன்று எனக்கு சொந்தமானது அல்லது இணைக்கப்பட்டுள்ளது, நிலக்கரி, உலோகம் மற்றும் உப்பு போன்ற பொருட்கள் அகற்றப்படும் தரையில் உள்ள துளைகளின் துளை அல்லது அமைப்பு… See more मेरा, (मुझ) से जुड़ा या संबंधित के अर्थ में प्रयुक्त, खान… See more મારું, મારી, મારી સાથે સંકળાયેલું.… See more min, mit, mine… See more min, mitt, mina… See more kepunyaan saya, lombong, periuk api… See more mein/meine, die Mine, schürfen… See more min, gruve [masculine-feminine], mine [masculine]… See more میرا, کان, معدن… See more мій, що належить мені, рудник… See more నా, గని, భూమిలో నుంచి బొగ్గు… See more আমার সঙ্গে সম্পর্কিত বা সংযুক্ত, খনি… See more můj, moje, moji… See more milik saya, tambang, ranjau… See more ของฉัน, เหมืองแร่, ระเบิด… See more của tôi, mỏ, thủy lôi… See more mój, kopalnia, mina… See more 내것, 광산, 지뢰… See more il mio, la mia, i miei… See more Need a translator?

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More meanings of mine

• pit
• coal mine
• gold mine
• land mine
• anti-mine
• limpet mine
• limpet

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• a mine of information idiom
• be a rich seam to mine idiom
• mine a rich seam of something idiom
• your guess is as good as mine idiom
• your guess is as good as mine idiom
• canary in the mine, at canary in a coalmine idiom

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• English   Pronoun
  • Noun 
    • mine (HOLE)
    • mine (BOMB)
  • Verb 
    • mine (DIG)
    • mine (BOMB)
    • mine (GET INFORMATION)
    • mine (GET CURRENCY)
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• American   
  • Pronoun 
    • mine (BELONGING TO ME)
  • Noun 
    • mine (HOLE)
    • mine (BOMB)
  • Verb 
    • mine (DIG IN HOLE)
    • mine (BOMB)
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