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MINING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of extracting ores or coal etc from the earth
Synonyms:
excavation; mining
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("mining" is a kind of...):
production ((economics) manufacturing or mining or growing something (usually in large quantities) for sale)
Domain member category:
bore; bore-hole; drill hole (a hole or passage made by a drill; usually made for exploratory purposes)
drift; gallery; heading (a horizontal (or nearly horizontal) passageway in a mine)
fathom; fthm ((mining) a unit of volume (equal to 6 cubic feet) used in measuring bodies of ore)
rag (break into lumps before sorting)
hush (run water over the ground to erode (soil), revealing the underlying strata and valuable minerals)
hush (wash by removing particles)
mine (get from the earth by excavation)
strip mine; surface-mine; surface mine (extract (ore) from a strip-mine)
drive (excavate horizontally)
extract (separate (a metal) from an ore)
opencast; opencut ((of mines and mining) worked from the exposed surface)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mining"):
placer mining (mining valuable minerals from a placer by washing or dredging)
opencast mining; strip mining (the mining of ore or coal from an open mine)
Derivation:
mine (get from the earth by excavation)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Laying explosive mines in concealed places to destroy enemy personnel and equipment
Synonyms:
minelaying; mining
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("mining" is a kind of...):
defence; defense; defensive measure ((military) military action or resources protecting a country against potential enemies)
Derivation:
mine (lay mines)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb mine
Context examples:
First, she lost in the mining way, and then she lost in the diving way—fishing up treasure, or some such Tom Tiddler nonsense, explained my aunt, rubbing her nose; and then she lost in the mining way again, and, last of all, to set the thing entirely to rights, she lost in the banking way.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
He worked along to a right angle in the bank which the men had made in the course of mining, and in this angle he came to bay, protected on three sides and with nothing to do but face the front.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
The Bioinformatics Shared Resource provides Cancer Center investigators with the infrastructure and guidance in the following areas: genomic data analysis, microarray data analysis, protein structure and molecular modeling, computational tools, database mining, development, and support, and training for user community.
(Bioinformatics Shared Resource, NCI Thesaurus)
Though it was already eight o'clock (late breakfasts had followed naturally upon cessation of the steady work at mining) a candle in the neck of a bottle lighted the meal.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
A group founded to provide a forum to critically assess different techniques used in microarray data mining.
(Critical Assessment of Microarray Data Analysis, NCI Thesaurus)
In mining.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Now that the mining had ceased, Edith Nelson turned over the fire-building and the dish-washing to the men, while she darned their socks and mended their clothes.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
