mine
[noun]
Synonyms:
- pit, colliery, deposit, excavation, shaft
- source, abundance, fund, hoard, reserve, stock, store, supply, treasury, wealth
[verb]
Synonyms:
- dig up, dig for, excavate, extract, hew, quarry, unearth

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Related Words: lode, quarry, vein, spring, well, wellspring, burrow, drill, excavate, sap, scoop, work

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English Thesaurus: bomb, explosives, device, IED, mine, ...

[TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲

I. mine¹ S1 /maɪn/ pronoun [possessive form of ‘I’]
used by the person speaking or writing to refer to something that belongs to or is connected with himself or herself ⇒ my:
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.

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲

II. mine² S2 W3 noun [countable]
[Date: 1300-1400; Language: Old French; Origin: Vulgar Latin mina]

1. a deep hole or holes in the ground that people dig so that they can remove coal, gold, tin etc ⇒ mining
coal/gold/copper etc mine
one of the largest coal mines in the country
in/down a mine
the time when children used to work down the mines

2. a 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. ⇒ landmine

3. a 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.

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III. mine³ verb (past tense and past participle mined, present participle mining)

1. [intransitive, transitive usually passive] to dig large holes in the ground in order to remove coal, gold etc:
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.

2. [transitive usually passive] to hide bombs in the sea or under the ground:
All the roads leading to the village had been mined.

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲

mine
noun
I. for coal, etc.
ADJ. coal, copper, diamond, salt, tin, etc. | deep, drift, opencast | abandoned, disused
VERB + MINE operate, run, work | go down, work at/down/in At 14, he went down the mines.
MINE + VERB produce sth At its peak, the mine produced 5,000 tons of coal a day.
MINE + NOUN shaft (also mineshaft), workings flooded mine workings
owner

[TahlilGaran] Collocations Dictionary ▲

mine
II. explosive device
ADJ. anti-personnel, land, limpet
VERB + MINE lay, plant soldiers laying anti-personnel mines
clear, dispose of, remove The troops are slowly clearing the mines.
detonate, hit, set off, strike
MINE + VERB blow up, explode, go off

[TahlilGaran] Collocations Dictionary ▲

bomb 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.
explosives 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).
device 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.
IED 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.
mine 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.
grenade (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.

[TahlilGaran] English Thesaurus ▲

mine
̈ɪmaɪn
See: back to the salt mines , run of the mill or run of the mine

[TahlilGaran] English Idioms Dictionary ▲