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MINE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Explosive device that explodes on contact; designed to destroy vehicles or ships or to kill or maim personnel

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("mine" is a kind of...):

explosive device (device that bursts with sudden violence from internal energy)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mine"):

floating mine; marine mine (an explosive mine designed to destroy ships that bump into it)

booby trap; ground-emplaced mine; land mine (an explosive mine hidden underground; explodes when stepped on or driven over)

Derivation:

mine (lay mines)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Excavation in the earth from which ores and minerals are extracted

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("mine" is a kind of...):

excavation (a hole in the ground made by excavating)

Meronyms (parts of "mine"):

mineshaft (excavation consisting of a vertical or sloping passageway for finding or mining ore or for ventilating a mine)

shaft (a long vertical passage sunk into the earth, as for a mine or tunnel)

adit (a nearly horizontal passage from the surface into a mine)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mine"):

coal mine; coalpit (a mine where coal is dug from the ground)

copper mine (a mine where copper is dug from the ground)

gold mine; goldmine (a mine where gold ore is found)

salt mine (a mine where salt is dug)

silver mine (a mine where silver ore is dug)

strip mine (an open mine (usually for coal) where the seams run close to the surface)

sulfur mine; sulphur mine (a mine where sulphur is dug from the ground)

Holonyms ("mine" is a part of...):

colliery; pit (a workplace consisting of a coal mine plus all the buildings and equipment connected with it)

Derivation:

mine (get from the earth by excavation)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Lay mines

Example:

The Vietnamese mined Cambodia

Classified under:

Verbs of fighting, athletic activities

Hypernyms (to "mine" is one way to...):

reenforce; reinforce (make stronger)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "mine"):

countermine (destroy enemy mines with one's own mines)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

mine (explosive device that explodes on contact; designed to destroy vehicles or ships or to kill or maim personnel)

mining (laying explosive mines in concealed places to destroy enemy personnel and equipment)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Get from the earth by excavation

Example:

mine ores and metals

Classified under:

Verbs of eating and drinking

Hypernyms (to "mine" is one way to...):

exploit; tap (draw from; make good use of)

"Mine" entails doing...:

cut into; delve; dig; turn over (turn up, loosen, or remove earth)

Domain category:

excavation; mining (the act of extracting ores or coal etc from the earth)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "mine"):

strip mine; surface-mine; surface mine (extract (ore) from a strip-mine)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

mine (excavation in the earth from which ores and minerals are extracted)

miner (laborer who works in a mine)

mining (the act of extracting ores or coal etc from the earth)

Credits

 Context examples: 

The genome "mining" approach along with metagenomic sequencing gave the scientists a way to connect the natural chemicals produced by organisms back to the enzymes that constructed them.

(Bacteria living in marine sponge produce toxic compounds found in man-made products, NSF)

Whatever fate may be mine through life, I am very sure that I shall never be nearer death than I was that morning.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I went to the medicine-man, what you call missionary, and had large talk about the bad water and the payment that should be mine.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Scientists discovered the fossils in ancient peat deposits at the Tevshiin Govi mine in the steppes of central Mongolia.

(Paleontologists find fossil relative of Ginkgo biloba, NSF)

“I signed for cabin-boy. An’ I don’t want no boat-pullin’ in mine.”

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

“Thank you. I have not come to stay,” said I. “There is a friend of mine here, Mr. Isa Whitney, and I wish to speak with him.”

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This land is very different from yours or mine; even if we did have a special, it would probably not arrive as soon as our regular train.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The horse may be at the bottom of one of the pits or old mines upon the moor.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Theresa was as cool as ice, and it was her plot as much as mine.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You’ve learned your place, and I know mine.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)