mine
/maɪ̯n/ noun B2- An excavation from which ore or solid minerals are taken, especially one consisting of underground tunnels. · Meronyms: mine shaft, mineshaft; mine car· This diamond comes from a mine in South Africa.
- Any source of wealth or resources. · She's a mine of information about the history of mathematics.
- A passage dug toward or underneath enemy lines, which is then packed with explosives. · The most famous mine of the American Civil War led to the Battle of the Crater.
- A device intended to explode when stepped upon or touched, or when approached by a ship, vehicle, or person. · Holonym: minefield· His left leg was blown off after he stepped on a mine.
- A type of firework that explodes on the ground, shooting sparks upward.
- The cavity made by a caterpillar while feeding inside a leaf.
- A machine or network of machines used to extract units of a cryptocurrency. · A change to the blockchain method was contemplated to allow mines to hog less electric power.
Plural mines
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“Eh,” he said, negligently, “this money is not mine.
“Take good care of these friends of mine,” said the Lion, “and I will go at once to fight the monster.”
“If your heads were stuffed with straw, like mine, you would probably all live in the beautiful places, and then Kansas would have no people at all.
The Crow put an end to the dispute by saying, “Your feathers are all very well in the spring, but mine protect me against the winter.”
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