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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006) |
mining
n 1: the act of extracting ores or coal etc from the earth [syn:
mining, excavation]
2: laying explosive mines in concealed places to destroy enemy
personnel and equipment [syn: mining, minelaying]
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2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Mine \Mine\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Mined; p. pr. & vb. n.
Mining.]
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1. To dig away, or otherwise remove, the substratum or
foundation of; to lay a mine under; to sap; to undermine;
hence, to ruin or destroy by slow degrees or secret means.
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They mined the walls. --Hayward.
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Too lazy to cut down these immense trees, the
spoilers . . . had mined them, and placed a quantity
of gunpowder in the cavity. --Sir W.
Scott.
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2. To dig into, for ore or metal.
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Lead veins have been traced . . . but they have not
been mined. --Ure.
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3. To get, as metals, out of the earth by digging.
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The principal ore mined there is the bituminous
cinnabar. --Ure.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Mining \Min"ing\, n. [See Mine, v. i.]
The act or business of making mines or of working them.
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4. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Mining \Min"ing\, a.
Of or pertaining to mines; as, mining engineer; mining
machinery; a mining region.
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Mining engineering. See the Note under Engineering.
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Thesaurus Results for mining:
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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 |
architecture, assembly, avulsion, building, casting, coal mining, composition, construction, conversion, crafting, craftsmanship, creation, cultivation, cutting out, deepening, depression, deracination, devising, digging, disentanglement, drawing, drawing out, dredging, drilling, elaboration, engraving, enucleation, eradication, erection, evolvement, evulsion, excavation, excision, expression, exsection, extirpation, extraction, extrication, fabrication, fashioning, formation, forming, formulation, framing, gold fever, gold mining, gold rush, growing, handicraft, handiwork, harvesting, indentation, lowering, machining, making, manufacture, manufacturing, milling, molding, placer claim, placer mining, prefabrication, preparation, pressing out, probing, processing, producing, pulling, quarrying, raising, refining, removal, ripping out, shaping, sinkage, sinking, smelting, squeezing out, strip mining, tunneling, unrooting, uprooting, withdrawal, workmanship, wresting out |
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Common Misspellings > |
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