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Definition: MINE |
MINEIntransitive verb1. Fig.: A rich source of wealth or other good. 2. Any place where ore, metals, or precious stones are got by digging or washing the soil; as, a placer mine. 3. A cavity or tunnel made under a fortification or other work, for the purpose of blowing up the superstructure with some explosive agent. 4. A pit or excavation in the earth, from which metallic ores, precious stones, coal, or other mineral substances are taken by digging; -- distinguished from the pits from which stones for architectural purposes are taken, and which are called quarries. 5. A subterranean cavity or passage 6. To form subterraneous tunnel or hole; to form a burrow or lodge in the earth; as, the mining cony. 7. To dig a mine or pit in the earth; to get ore, metals, coal, or precious stones, out of the earth; to dig in the earth for minerals; to dig a passage or cavity under anything in order to overthrow it by explosives or otherwise. Noun1. See Mien. Pronoun & adjective1. Belonging to me; my. Used as a pronominal to me; my. Used as a pronominal adjective in the predicate; as, "Vengeance is mine; I will repay." Rom. xii. 19. Also, in the old style, used attributively, instead of my, before a noun beginning with a vowel. Transitive verb1. To get, as metals, out of the earth by digging. 2. To dig into, for ore or metal. 3. 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. |
Date "MINE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
Note: Mine \Mine\, transitive verb. [imperfect & past participle. Mined; Mining.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
19th Century Satire | A hole in the ground owned by a liar. Source: Foolish Dictionary, 1904. |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of being in a mine, denotes failure in affairs. To own a mine, denotes future wealth. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Food & Agriculture | A)a bore hole in plant tissue, particularly wood or bark, made by an adult insect for oviposition, entry or emergence, or by a larva when feeding; b)(mostly larval)tunnels of wood-boring insects, sometimes packed with frass. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A. An opening or excavation in the ground for the purpose of extracting minerals; a pit or excavation from which ores or other mineral substances are taken by digging; an opening in the ground made for the purpose of taking out minerals, and in case of coal mines, commonly a worked vein; an excavation properly underground for digging out some usual product, such as ore, metal, or coal, including any deposit of any material suitable for excavation and working as a placer mine; collectively, the underground passage and workings and the minerals themselves b. A work for the excavation of minerals by means of pits, shafts, levels, tunnels, etc., as opposed to a quarry, where the whole excavation is open. In general, the existence of a mine is determined by the mode in which the mineral is obtained, and not by its chemical or geological character. The term also includes only excavations for their minerals or valuable mineral deposits c. An excavation beneath the surface of the ground from which mineral matter of value is extracted. The word carries the sense of laborers working beneath a cover of ground and thus excludes oil, brine, and sulfur wells. Excavations for the extraction of ore or other economic minerals not requiring work beneath the surface are designated by a modifying word or phrase as: (1) opencut mine--an excavation for removing minerals that is open to the weather; (2) steam shovel mine--an opencut mine in which steam shovels or other power shovels are used for loading cars; (3) strip mine--a stripping; an opencut mine in which the overburden is removed from a coalbed before the coal is taken out; (4) placer mine--a deposit of sand, gravel, or talus from which some valuable mineral is extracted; and (5) hydraulic mine--a placer mine worked by means of a stream of water directed against a bank of sand, gravel, or talus; soft rock similarly worked. A quarry from which rock is extracted becomes a mine when it is carried under cover. Mines are commonly known by the mineral or metal extracted such as bauxite mines, copper mines, silver mines, coal mines, etc d. The terms mine and coal mine are intended to signify any and all parts of the property of a mining plant, either on the surface or underground, that contribute directly or indirectly to the mining or handling of coal or ore e. The term mine, as applied by quarrymen, is applied to underground workings having a roof of undisturbed rock. It is used in contrast with the open pit quarry f. To dig a mine; to get ore, metals, coal, or precious stones out of the earth; to dig into, as the ground, for ore or metal; to work in a mine g. An active mining area, including all land and property placed under, or above the surface of such land, used in or resulting from the work of extracting metal ore or minerals from their natural deposits by any means or method, including secondary recovery of metal ore from refuse or other storage piles, wastes, or rock dumps and mill tailings derived from themining, cleaning, or concentration of metal ores. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A landmine is a type of mine: a device which is placed on the ground and explodes when triggered by a vehicle or person. Landmines are used to secure disputed borders and to restrict enemy movement in times of war. Because of this, and also because not all types are designed to be buried in the ground, and to avoid using the word landmine, they are sometimes called area denial munitions, serving a tactical purpose similar to barbed wire or concrete "dragon's teeth" vehicle barriers.From a military perspective, land mines serve as force multipliers, allowing an organized force to overcome a larger enemy.
Mechanisms
A landmine can be triggered by a number of things including pressure, movement, sound, magnetism and vibration. Anti-personnel mines commonly use the pressure of a person's foot as a trigger, but tripwire is also frequent. Most modern anti-vehicle mines use a magnetic trigger, to enable it to detonate even if the tyres or tracks did not touch it. Advanced mines are able to sense the difference between friendly and enemy types of vehicles by way of a built-in signature catalog. This will theoretically enable friendly forces to use the mined area while denying the enemy access.
Many mines combine the main trigger with a touch or tilt trigger, to prevent enemy engineers from defuzing it. Also, landmine designs tend to use as little metal as possible to make searching with a metal detector more difficult.
An antipersonnel mine that is used within a building or with some sort of psychological bait is called a booby trap.
Mines used by the U.S. Army and many other forces are designed to self-destruct after a period of weeks or months to reduce the likelihood of civilian casualties at the conflict's end, though many mines laid historically have not.
Laying minefields
Minefields may be laid by several means. Mine-laying shells may be fired by artillery from a distance of several tens of kilometers, ejected from cruise missiles, or dropped from helicopters or airplanes. Armoured vehicles (AFVs) equipped to lay mines have also been built. However, if time allows, the preferred way is to place them into the ground by hand or with relatively simple tools, since this will make the mines practically invisible and reduce the number of mines needed to deny the enemy of an area.
Often anti-tank minefields are scattered with anti-personnel mines to make its clearing more difficult and time-consuming.
Efforts to ban anti-personnel mines
Anti-personnel landmines or APLs are widely considered to be ethically problematic weapons because their victims are commonly civilians, who are often maimed long after war activities have ceased. According to anti-landmine campaigners, in Cambodia alone, mines have resulted in 35,000 amputees after the cessation of hostilities. Removal of land mines is dangerous, slow and costly. Some countries maintain that landmines are necessary to protect their soldiers in war.
The use, production, stockpiling and trade in anti-personnel landmines was outlawed by the Ottawa Treaty in 1999 which was signed by 141 countries, of which 120 ratified it. The biggest countries not to sign the treaty were China, India, the USA and Russia. The U.S. government has said that it will join the Treaty in 2006, if alternatives to anti-personnel landmines are in place by then. The treaty was the result of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, launched in 1992, whose web site at http://www.icbl.org has the treaty text and the complete list of signatories. The campaign won the Nobel peace prize in 1997 for its efforts.
The Ottawa Treaty does not include anti-tank mines and cluster bombs.
Manufacturers
The legal export of anti-personnel landmines has ceased as of 1999. Anti-personnel landmines continue to be produced in the following countries:
Some have claimed that despite the 1999 ban, China and Russia have continued to mass-produce land mines for export around the world.
- Burma
- China
- Cuba
- Egypt
- India
- Iran
- Iraq
- North Korea
- South Korea
- Pakistan
- Russia
- Singapore
- Turkey
- United States
- Vietnam
- Yugoslavia
(see [1]).
The Soviet Union has been accused of using specifically designed mines looking like toys, to target children, in the conflict with Afghanistan. Some of the Soviet mines used were small, green, made from plastic and winged so that they could be deployed from planes, with the result that children often mistook them for toys, but others were allegedly manufactured of red and white plastic in the shape of toy trucks.
Unexploded bomblets from cluster bombs have also the danger of landmines; this is probably in some cases a design feature, intended to pin down the military force upon which they are dropped and discourage it from moving. Although they are not designed to be hidden, they may be, due to soft soil or vegetation. In addition, again, children could possibly mistake them for toys.
In World War I, landmines were used at the start of the battle of Passchendale.
Zhuge Liang, of the kingdom of Shu of China,was said to invent the first landmine of history, according to some sources.
Whether or not this is the case, the concept appeared independently in Europe in the early 18th Century. The French term fougasse is sometimes still applied to improvised land mines or booby traps constructed in the form of bombs buried in shallow wells in the earth and covered with scrap metal and/or gravel to serve as shrapnel. The technique was used in several European wars of the 18th Century, the American Revolution, and the American Civil War.
The first modern mechanically fuzed high explosive antipersonnel land mines were created in Germany, circa 1912, and were copied and manufactured by all major participants in the First World War. Well before the war was over, the British were manufacturing land mines that contained poison gas instead of explosives. Poison gas land mines were manufactured at least until the 1980s in the Soviet Union and the US was also known to have at least experimented with the concept in the 1950s.
See also:
- Roots of Peace, a a humanitarian organization dedicated to the removal of landmines.
- Claymore mine
- mine - for other types of mines
- Honeywell - for other types of mines
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Landmine."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Mine can refer to a number of things:
- In medieval times, a mine was a tunnel dug under a castle wall to make it collapse. This was known as undermining or sapping.
- Landmines which are devices used to destroy enemy vehicles and kill enemy soldiers who move over them.
- Naval mines which are devices used for the same puposes as landmines but destroy sea-going vessels.
- An excavation dug into the ground for the purpose of extracting minerals known as mining.
- Mine is a town in Saga, Japan.
- Mine is a city in Yamaguchi, Japan.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Mine."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Mine (美祢市; -shi) is a city located in Yamaguchi, Japan.
As of 2003, the city has an estimated population of 18,088 and the density of 79.25 persons per km². The total area is 228.25 km².
The city was founded on March 31, 1954.
External Links
- Official website in Japanese
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Mine, Yamaguchi."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Mining is the extraction of valuable minerals from the ground, usually from an ore body or vein.
History
The first mining operation on Earth may have been the turquoise mine operated by the ancient Egyptians at Wady Maghareh on the Sinai Peninsula. Turquoise was also mined in pre-Columbian America in the Cerillos Mining District in New Mexico where a mass of rock 200 feet in depth and 300 feet in width was removed with stone tools; the mine dump covers 20 acres.
Mining techniques
Bioleaching is the application of naturally available bacteria to extract metals from their ore.
- Deep mining
- Drift mining
- Hard rock mining
- Open pit mining
- Quarrying
- Strip mining
- Tunnel mining
- Placer mining, which was important in the recovery of alluvial deposits of gold and continues to be used in the mining of gems in Myanamar and Sri Lanka
See also: Coal mining
Materials commonly recovered by mining
- bauxite (for aluminum)
- coal,
- copper,
- diamonds,
- iron (from the ores haematite and limonite),
- gold,
- nickel,
- salt,
- silver,
- tin,
- uranium.
Further reading
- Hardrock Gold: A Miner's Tale, Tom Morrison, illustrated by Cherry Hunter, University of Oklahoma Press, 1992, hardcover, ISBN 0806124423
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Mining."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Naval mines are anti-ship or anti-submarine weapons which, like landmines, are static weapons deposited and left to wait until they are triggered by the approach of an enemy ship. They are extremely effective and relatively cheap weapons, having caused more damage to US Navy ships since World War II than any other weapon. Fourteen US Navy ships have been sunk or damaged by mines since 1945; in comparison, only four US warships have been damaged by air and missile attack.
Early History
The first naval mines may have been tried by the English at the Seige of Rochelle in 1627 where they launched "floating petards" unsuccessfully against the French navy.
However, the first practical ones were invented by an American, David Bushnell, for use against the British in the American War of Independence. It was a watertight keg filled with gunpowder and fired by a percussion lock when the keg stuck a ship.
The first successful use occured during the American Civil War, where mines were widely used by both sides. The first ship sunk was USS Cairo in 1863 in the Yazoo River. Rear-Admiral David Farragut's famous quote, "Damn the torpedoes!" refers to a minefield laid at Mobile, Alabama.
In the nineteenth century, mines were universally called torpedoes, a term probably first adopted by Robert Fulton, and named after a fish which can give powerful electric shocks. Only later was it reserved for self-propelled underwater missiles, originally called Whitehead Torpedoes after the inventor. As well as self-propelled torpedoes and fixed mines, there were types of "torpedoes" which were attached to an attacking ship.
A spar torpedo was a mine attached to a long pole and detonated by the ship carrying it ramming another one. Perhaps the best known use was the destruction of USS Housatonic by CSS Hunley on February 17 1864.
A Harvey Torpedo was a type of floating mine which was towed alongside a ship, and was briefly in service in the Royal Navy in the 1870s.
The next major use came in the Russo-Japanese War in 1904, where the Russian battleship Petropavlovsk was sunk, killing most of the crew including the fleet commander, Admiral Makaroff.
Classes
Static mines may be classified into two types.
Contact mines
The earliest mines were usually of this type. They detonate when a ship comes into physical contact with them. They float just below the surface of the water and are prevented from drifting by cables connecting them to weights on the seabed. The explosive and detonating mechanism is contained in a metal shell which also has a considerable airspace within it to provide buoyancy. The depth below the surface at which the mine floats can sometimes be set so that only large draft vessels such as aircraft carriers or battleships were at risk.
Early mines had mechanical mechanisms to detonate them, but these were superseded in the 1870s by the Hertz Horn which was found to work reliably even after the mine had been in the sea for several years. In this, the top of the mine has hollow studs a few inches long made out of lead. Each of these contains a glass vial filled with sulphuric acid. When a ship strikes the mine, the metal horn is crushed, destroying the vial inside it. The acid then runs down a tube and into a lead-acid battery which until then contains no acid electrolyte. At this point the battey is energised, which detonates the explosive.
During the First World War, the British heavily mined the English Channel and later large areas of the North Sea to prevent German submarines from using it. As the submarine could be at any depth down to the seabed, a US invention, the antenna mine, was widely used. This had a copper wire which the floated on a buoy above the mine, and the top part of the cable connecting it to the weight on the seabed was also made of this metal. It was insulated from the steel cable below it. If a submarine's steel hull touched the copper wire then the slight voltage produced because of the two disimilar metals was amplified and detonated the explosive.
Contact mines can be destroyed by minesweepers. These were small shallow draft ships which operated in pairs a hundred metres or so apart and dragging a serrated wire between them. The wire would slide up to the top of the mooring cable where it touched the mine and cut it free. Once the cable was cut the mine would float to the surface where a rifleman would shoot at it. This would either detonate it, or more often puncture it so that it sank. Some mines (especially antenna mines) might detonate harmlessly underwater just from contact with the dragline. Commandeered trawlers were often used as minesweepers as they were nearly ideal for the task, and usually came with the necessary winches.
The only problem with this technique, apart from the obvious risk from the mines, was the inability of minesweepers to manoeuvre without tangling the cable if they were attacked by aircraft - a major problem in the Second World War. To minimize this risk, one of the minesweepers would be substituted with a paravane, a torpedo-shaped float similar in shape to a Harvey Torpedo and so pulled away sideways from the ship towing it. Some large warships were routinely equipped with paravanes near the bows in case they inadvertently sailed into minefields - the mine would be deflected towards the paravane by the wire instead of towards the ship by its wake.
There were two countermeasures to dragline sweeping. The first was an ingenious mechanism which could be fitted near to the top of the mooring cable. It would allow the cutting wire to pass through it without disconnecting the mine. The other, more effective countermeasure was to have the mined area covered by gunfire or aircraft. This was most effectively done by the Turkish army in the Dardanelles in 1915, where mobile howitzer batteries prevented the British and French from clearing a way through.
Drifting mines were occasionally used, although usually the fear of them was more effective than they were themselves. Admiral Jellicoe's British fleet did not pursue and destroy the outnumbered German High Seas Fleet when it turned away at the Battle of Jutland because he thought they were leading him into a trap. He believed that either the germans were leaving floating mines in their wake, or were drawing him towards submarines. Both dangers were imaginary - the German fleet did not carry any mines.
Churchill promoted "Operation Marine" in 1940 and again in 1944 where floating mines were put into the Rhine in France to float down the river, becoming active after a fixed interval by which time they should have reached German territory.
Non-Contact mines
These are mines which do not need physical contact with the ship to detonate it. The earliest ones were moored mines used in the American Civil war and detonated electrically by observers on the shore. These were seen as superior to contact mines because they only deprived the waterway to the enemy.
More modern ones are self-acting and lie on the seabed, but can only be used in shallow water, otherwise the mine will explode too far away to damage the ship. An exception is the American CAPTOR mine which fires a torpedo. The first self-acting non-contact mines appeared at the end of the First World War and were detonated by the vertical component of the natural magnetic field of a ship passing overhead. They were further developed by the Germans in the Second World War, who introduced other techniques such as using the sound of a ship or the change in seawater pressure to detonate them.
Magnetic mines were largely countered by ships towing floating cables through which high currents were pulsed, creating strong magnetic fields to detonate them. Ships could also be immunised against the mines initially by installing magnetic coils arround the hulls to neutralise the magnetic field and later by degaussing, the process of neutralising the field by remagnetising the hull. So effective where these countermeasures that redundant german mines were used as bombs.
Acoustic mines were cleared by towing a noise-making device behind the ship, and pressure sensitive ones were destroyed by tides. However large ships had to travel slowly in waters suspected of containing pressure mines.
Modern non-contact mines are much more sensitive and much harder to sweep. They often contain anti-sweeping mechanisms such as sensitivity only to the noise of certain types of ship or will detonate only after their mechanism has been triggered a set number of times. They may also only arm themselves (or disarm automatically) after a set time. A different type of ship is needed to counter them, known as a mine hunter. A mine hunter may for example carry remotely piloted submersibles which can physically examine suspected mines initially located using sonar.
During the Gulf War, Iraqi naval mines severely damaged USS Princeton (CG-59) and USS Tripoli (LPH-10).
The United States Navy MK56 ASW mine (the oldest still in use by the US) was developed in 1966. Since that time, more advances in technology have given way to the development of the MK60 CAPTOR (short for "encapsulated torpedo"), the MK62 and MK63 Quickstrike and the MK67 SLMM (Submarine Launched Mobile Mine). Most mines in the USN's arsenal today are delivered by aircraft to target.
MK67 SLMM Submarine Launched Mobile Mine
The SLMM was developed by the United States as a submarine deployed mine for use in areas inaccessible for other mine deployment techniques or for covert mining of hostile environments. The SLMM is a shallow water mine consisting basically of a modified MK37 torpedo.General Characteristics
- Type: Submarine laid bottom mine
- Detection System: Magnetic/seismic or Magnetic/seismic/pressure target detection devices (TDDs)
- Dimensions: 48.5×409 centimeters (19 inches×161 inches)
- Depth Range: Shallow water
- Weight: 754 kilograms (1658 pounds)
- Explosives: 230 kilograms (510 pounds) high explosive
- Date Deployed: 1987
MK65 Quickstrike
The Quickstike is a family of shallow water aircraft laid mines used by the United States primarily against surface craft. The MK65 is a 2,000 lb mine. Other Quickstrike versions (MK62, MK63, and MK64) are converted general purpose bombs of the 500 pound and 1000 pound sizes.General Characteristics
- Type: Aircraft laid bottom mine
- Detection System: Magnetic/seismic/pressure target detection devices (TDDs)
- Dimensions: 74×325 centimeters (29×128 inches)
- Depth Range: Shallow water
- Weight: 1086 kilograms (2390 pounds)
- Explosives: Various loads
- Date Deployed: 1983
MK60 CAPTOR
The CAPTOR is the United States Navy's primary anti-submarine weapon. This deep water mine is designed to be laid by aircraft or submarine, and is anchored to the ocean floor. Upon detection of a hostile submarine, the CAPTOR launches a MK46 Mod 4 torpedo.General Characteristics
- Type: Aircraft, ship or submarine laid magnetically moored mine
- Detection System: Reliable acoustic path (RAP) sound propagation
- Dimensions:
- Aircraft or Ship laid: 53×368 centimeters (21×145 inches)
- Submarine laid: 53×335 centimeters (21×132 inches)
- Depth Range: Deep water
- Weight:
- Air or Ship laid: 1077 kilograms (2370 pounds)
- Submarine laid: 935 kilograms (2056 pounds)
- Explosives: 44 kilograms (96 pounds) of PBXN-103 high explosive in a MK46 torpedo
- Date Deployed: 1979
MK56
General Characteristics
- Type: Aircraft laid moored mine
- Detection System: Total field magnetic exploder
- Dimensions: 57 centimeters×290 centimeters (22.4 inches×114.3 inches)
- Depth Range: Moderate depths
- Weight: 909 kilograms (2000 pounds)
- Explosives: 164 kilograms (360 pounds) HBX-3
- Date Deployed: 1966
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Naval mine."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
MINE | English | Microbial Information Network in Europe | N/A |
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Attack | Fire upon, fire at, fire a shot at; shoot at, pop at, level at, let off a gun at; open fire, pepper, bombard, shell, pour a broadside into; fire a volley, fire red-hot shot; spring a mine. |
Beset, besiege, beleaguer; lay siege to, invest, open the trenches, plant a battery, sap, mine; storm, board, scale the walls. | |
Concavity | Render concave; Adjective: depress, hollow; scoop, scoop out; gouge, gouge out, dig, delve, excavate, dent, dint, mine, sap, undermine, burrow, tunnel, stave in. |
Noun: concavity, depression, dip; hollow, hollowness; indentation, intaglio, cavity, dent, dint, dimple, follicle, pit, sinus, alveolus, lacuna; excavation, strip mine; trough; (furrow); honeycomb. | |
Deception | Snare, trap, pitfall, decoy, gin; springe, springle; noose, hoot; bait, decoy-duck, tub to the whale, baited trap, guet-a-pens; cobweb, net, meshes, toils, mouse trap, birdlime; dionaea, Venus's flytrap; ambush; trapdoor, sliding panel, false bottom; spring-net, spring net, spring gun, mask, masked battery; mine; flytrap; green goods; panel house. |
Destruction | Deal destruction, desolate, devastate, lay waste, ravage gut; disorganize; dismantle; (render useless); devour, swallow up, sap, mine, blast, bomb, blow to smithereens, drop the big one, confound; exterminate, extinguish, quench, annihilate; snuff out, put out, stamp out, trample out; lay in the dust, trample in the dust; prostrate; tread under foot; crush under foot, trample under foot; lay the ax to the root of; make short work of, make clean sweep of, make mincemeat of; cut up root and branch, chop into pieces, cut into ribbons; fling to the winds, scatter to the winds; throw overboard; strike at the root of, sap the foundations of, spring a mine, blow up, ravage with fire and sword; cast to the dogs; eradicate. |
Deterioration | Blight, rot; corrode, erode; wear away, wear out; gnaw, gnaw at the root of; sap, mine, undermine, shake, sap the foundations of, break up; disorganize, dismantle, dismast; destroy. |
Inexpectation | Pounce upon, spring a mine upon. |
Opening | Way, path; thoroughfare; channel; passage, passageway; tube, pipe; water pipe; air pipe; vessel, tubule, canal, gut, fistula; adjutage, ajutage; ostium; smokestack; chimney, flue, tap, funnel, gully, tunnel, main; mine, pit, adit, shaft; gallery. |
Perforate, pierce, empierce, tap, bore, drill; mine; (scoop out); tunnel; transpierce, transfix; enfilade, impale, spike, spear, gore, spit, stab, pink, puncture, lance, stick, prick, riddle, punch; stave in. | |
Plan | Plot; counter-plot, counter-mine; dig a mine; lay a train; intrigue; (cunning). |
Preparation | Verb: prepare; get ready, make ready; make preparations, settle preliminaries, get up, sound the note of preparation. set in order, put in order; (arrange); forecast; (plan) prepare the ground, plow the ground, dress the ground; till the soil, cultivate the soil; predispose, sow the seed, lay a train, dig a mine; lay the groundwork, fix the groundwork, lay the basis, fix the basis, lay the foundations, fix the foundations; dig the foundations, erect the scaffolding; lay the first stone; (begin). |
Store | Noun: stock, fund, mine, vein, lode, quarry; spring; fount, fountain; well, wellspring; milch cow. |
Sufficiency | Fill; fullness; (completeness); plenitude, plenty; abundance; copiousness; Adjective:; amplitude, galore, lots, profusion; full measure; " good measure pressed down and running, over." luxuriance; (fertility); affluence; (wealth); fat of the land; "a land flowing with milk and honey"; cornucopia; horn of plenty, horn of Amalthaea; mine; (stock). |
Wealth | Income; capital, money; round sum; (treasure); mint of money, mine of wealth, El Dorado, bonanza, Pacatolus, Golconda, Potosi. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Mine won't (American Beauty; writing credit: Alan Ball) She is mine. (Moulin Rouge!; writing credit: Baz Luhrmann; Craig Pearce) I may have saved your life that day, but you really saved mine. You let me be a part of your family (While You Were Sleeping; writing credit: Daniel G. Sullivan; Fredric LeBow) No onions on mine! (The Lost World: Jurassic Park; writing credit: David Koepp) If you don't have my money then you are mine. (Rounders; writing credit: David Levien and Brian Koppelman.) | |
Lyrics | YOU'RE SIXTEEN, YOU'RE BEAUTIFUL AND YOU'RE MINE. (You're Sixteen (You're Beautiful And You're Mine); performing artist: Ringo Starr) Any man of mine better be proud of me (Any Man Of Mine; performing artist: Shania Twain) Your beautiful eyes looking deep into mine (Invisible Man; performing artist: 98 Degrees; writing credit: Dane DeViller, Sean Hosein, and Steve Kipner) UH DOG TAGS AROUND MY NECK THE STREETS ARE MINE (Come Back In One Piece; performing artist: Aaliyah) She was one of a kind, she's just mine all mine (YOU SHOOK ME ALL NIGHT LONG; performing artist: AC/DC) | |
Clever | Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued. (references; author: Bob Hope) His money is twice tainted: taint yours and taint mine.'' (references; author: Mark Twain) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Vengeance Is Mine (1974) Yours and Mine (1974) White and Blue Make Mine Red (1972) This Body Is Mine (1971) Mine Hunter (1968) | |
Song Titles | Down In The Coal Mine (performing artist: Ian Folk Group Campbell) No Son Of Mine (performing artist: Genesis) Sweet Child O' Mine (performing artist: Guns N' Roses) I'm Gonna Make You Mine (performing artist: Lou Christie) The Girl Is Mine (performing artist: Michael Jackson & Paul McCartney) | |
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 | Pneumoconiosis, or Black Lung Disease, is a job related disease caused by continued exposure to excessive amounts of coal mine dust. This dust becomes imbedded in the lungs, causing them to harden, making breathing very difficult. Credit: CDC. |  | Cat train at Meade River Mine Arctic Field Party of Hubert A. Paton. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Upper Spring Creek above the influence of Iron Mountain Mine; note the normal riparian vegetation. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |  | Spring Creek below Iron Mountain Mine. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
 | Wesley Gordon, NRCS District Conservationist, and a local community college student discuss the operation of a mine water remediation project. The project passively treats water in a natural wetlands system which causes the iron oxide to filter from the w. Credit: Bob Nichols. |  | James Burgess, NRCS District Conservationist, and Dan Seibert, NRCS Resource Conservationist, survey the water quality in a mine water filtration pond in Somerset County, PA. The pond is part of a PL-566 project. [Slide 97CS3103]. Credit: Bob Nichols. |
 | Sign Happy Jack Chalk mine Scotia, NE. Credit: USDA. |  | Dawn view from the peak of the Happy Jack Chalk mine. Credit: USDA. |
 | A photograph taken at the Richinbar Mine site in the Agua Fria National Monument. Credit: Beth Perault. |  | An old abandoned mine in Quartzsite, AZ. Credit: Jeanette Davis. |
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| "Hands of mine 6" by Mike Mays Commentary: "Hands.." | "Japanese rose" by I Y Commentary: "This plant blooms continuously in summer, on the balcony of some very good friends of mine." |
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 | Bomb; explode; explosion; atom bomb; bombshell; charge; device; explosive; grenade; hydrogen bomb; mine; missile; nuclear bomb; projectile; rocket; shell; ticker; torpedo; submarine. |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Author | Quotation |
Benjamin Franklin | Genius without education is like silver in the mine. |
Christina Rossetti | Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine. |
Horace | If a better system is thine, impart it; if not, make use of mine. |
John Donne | I do nothing upon myself, and yet am mine own executioner. |
Norman O. Brown | I am what is mine. Personality is the original personal property. |
Seneca | Whatever is well said by another, is mine. |
Titus Maccius Plautus | What is yours is mine, and all mine is yours. |
| What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine. | |
William Shakespeare | I shall ne'er be ware of mine own wit, till I break my shins against it. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | I could not forfeit their lives; they were not mine to forfeit. (Second Treatise of Government) |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | It is understood that the French Government preserves its right to prohibit in the future in the territories referred to in Article 51 all new German participation: (1) In the management or exploitation of the public domain and of public services, such as railways, navigable waterways, water works, gas works, electric power, etc.; (2) In the ownership of mines and quarries of every kind and in enterprises connected therewith; (3) In metallurgical establishments, even though their working may not be connected with that of any mine. (reference) |
Winston S. Churchill | 1946 | I have often used words which I learned fifty years ago from a great Irish-American orator, a friend of mine, Mr. Bourke Cockran. ("Iron Curtain" Speech) |
John F. Kennedy | 1961 | In your hands, my fellow citizens, more than mine, will rest the final success or failure of our course. (reference) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Emma | Austen, Jane | I should myself have shrunk from any thing so hasty, and she would have felt every scruple of mine with multiplied strength and refinement |
After Three Days | Carroll, Lewis | In each averted face I marked but scorn and loathing, till mine eyes Fell upon one that stirred not in his place, Tranced in a dumb surprise |
A Christmas Carol | Dickens, Charles | Mine occupies me constantly |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | The fault was mine. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The misery of the universe was his mine. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | How different are the words home, Christ, ale, master, on his lips and on mine! I cannot speak or write these words without unrest of spirit |
King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | And so doth mine. |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | While he was thinking one thing in his brain, I was endeavoring to divine his thought in mine. |
Sonnets | William Shakespeare | How would, I say, mine eyes be blessed made by looking on thee in the living day, when in dead night thy fair imperfect shade through heavy sleep on sightless eyes doth stay |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | As of 1998, the DMMR issued over 700 mining permits for building materials, twelve mining franchises, and seven small mine licenses. (references) | |
Current plans for the Brigade include upgrades to their main battle tanks, armored personnel carriers, communication equipment, scout vehicles, helicopters, mine clearing equipment and mortars. (references) | ||
Minera Alumbrera S.A., a consortium of Canadian and Australian companies, set the stage for this segment of the market, with the development of a large copper and gold mine in Bajo de la Alumbrera, Catamarca. (references) | ||
Children | Bosnia and Herzegovina | According to a report issued in June by the BiH Ministry for Human Rights and Refugees, 130,000 of the 617,000 refugees from BiH are children, 108,000 of the 518,000 internally displaced persons are children and 268 of the 1,225 victims of mine incidents since 1996 were children. (references) |
Economic History | Guyana | Omai's mine is the largest open-pit gold operation in Guyana. (references) |
Belarus | Potential areas of cooperation can be seen in the area of mine disposal, demining and small arms destruction. (references) | |
Human Rights | Algeria | Security forces then used explosives to collapse the mine, killing 70 persons. (references) |
Russia | In April 2000, the Government announced plans to mine its border with Georgia. (references) | |
Afghanistan | An estimated 96 percent of civilian mine and unexploded ordnance casualties are male. (references) | |
Minorities | Bosnia and Herzegovina | On March 8, land mine explosions destroyed a newly reconstructed Croat dwelling near Bosanski Brod. (references) |
Political Economy | Solomon Islands | Commercial export activities, which included some plantation production of copra, cocoa, and palm oil, a fish cannery, a gold mine on Guadalcanal, and small resort and diving enterprises, have ceased to operate; only the logging industry continued to operate, albeit at a reduced level. (references) |
PERU | After several years of delay, the giant Camisea natural gas field concession was granted in February 2000 and the transportation and distribution contract was awarded in October 2000. Operation, modernization and expansion of Lima's Jorge Chavez International Airport was granted in a 1.2 billion dollar, thirty-year concession to a private consortium in February 2001. The Bayovar phosphate mine, regional airports, highways, and a number of regional maritime ports are among concessions expected to be auctioned shortly. (references) | |
Trade | Colombia | Colombia's Industrial Development Fund (IFI) has been heavily involved in project financing and has taken over most of the obligations acquired by the financial funds administered by the Central Bank before the restructuring of the Central Bank in 1992. IFI has equity in such major Colombian projects as the Cerromatoso ferronickel mine and the Cerrejon open pit coal mine (the world's largest). (references) |
Worker Rights | South Africa | On May 8, 12 persons were killed by an explosion in a gold mine. (references) |
Pakistan | There is a serious lack of adherence to mine safety and health protocols. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | SOUL, n. A spiritual entity concerning which there hath been brave disputation. Plato held that those souls which in a previous state of existence (antedating Athens) had obtained the clearest glimpses of eternal truth entered into the bodies of persons who became philosophers. Plato himself was a philosopher. The souls that had least contemplated divine truth animated the bodies of usurpers and despots. Dionysius I, who had threatened to decapitate the broad- browed philosopher, was a usurper and a despot. Plato, doubtless, was not the first to construct a system of philosophy that could be quoted against his enemies; certainly he was not the last. "Concerning the nature of the soul," saith the renowned author of Diversiones Sanctorum, "there hath been hardly more argument than that of its place in the body. Mine own belief is that the soul hath her seat in the abdomen -- in which faith we may discern and interpret a truth hitherto unintelligible, namely that the glutton is of all men most devout. He is said in the Scripture to 'make a god of his belly' -- why, then, should he not be pious, having ever his Deity with him to freshen his faith? Who so well as he can know the might and majesty that he shrines? Truly and soberly, the soul and the stomach are one Divine Entity; and such was the belief of Promasius, who nevertheless erred in denying it immortality. He had observed that its visible and material substance failed and decayed with the rest of the body after death, but of its immaterial essence he knew nothing. This is what we call the Appetite, and it survives the wreck and reek of mortality, to be rewarded or punished in another world, according to what it hath demanded in the flesh. The Appetite whose coarse clamoring was for the unwholesome viands of the general market and the public refectory shall be cast into eternal famine, whilst that which firmly through civilly insisted on ortolans, caviare, terrapin, anchovies, pates de foie gras and all such Christian comestibles shall flesh its spiritual tooth in the souls of them forever and ever, and wreak its divine thirst upon the immortal parts of the rarest and richest wines ever quaffed here below. Such is my religious faith, though I grieve to confess that neither His Holiness the Pope nor His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury (whom I equally and profoundly revere) will assent to its dissemination." |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Beth Veglahn | Well, he was at work, and I decided enough was enough. And a friend of mine and my brother helped me move out in the middle of the night. |
Christopher Reeve | It's funny how the psyche and the body shut down when you're in real crisis. Mine shut downs at odd moments anyway. |
Elizabeth Taylor | Just difficult. Mine was completely different. I loved Michael. But we lived together like brother and sister. And I was too young. I was just too young for that. |
Geoffrey Hoon | I'm grateful for the condolences you express, and in return I have expressed mine to Donald Rumsfeld on behalf of the British government. |
Glen Campbell | Yeah. Vengeance is mine, saith the Lord. I remembered that from when I was a kid, and I said, whatever happens will happen. I won't be a part of it. |
Mike Medavoy | I didn't see Marlon when he was on the movie, but, you know, he's a very good friend of mine, and I say that, you know, I'm proud of my friendship with him. And, you know, everything that was said about him is not necessarily true. |
Rosemary Clooney | Sure, wonderful singer. Anyway Billie and Tony were really close friends so when I met her, she kind of made that association and was a very good friend of mine and was nice to me. And so she is my first daughter's godmother. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | I hope it is unnecessary for me to say that such a sacrifice will not be made through any agency of mine. |
Grover Cleveland | 1885-1889; 1893-1897 | Nothing can relieve me from anxiety lest by any act of mine their interests may suffer, and nothing is needed to strengthen my resolution to engage every faculty and effort in the promotion of their welfare. |
Benjamin Harrison | 1889-1893 | Every new mine, furnace, and factory is an extension of the productive capacity of the State more real and valuable than added territory. |
John F. Kennedy | 1961-1963 | In your hands, my fellow citizens, more than in mine, will rest the final success or failure of our course. |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | Now we come to a question that weighs very heavily on all our minds-on yours and mine. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | The cause is not mine alone, but an historic movement that will endure. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | We have never needed walls, mine fields and barbwire to keep our people in. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "MINE" is generally used as a pronoun (personal) -- approximately 65.44% of the time. "MINE" is used about 6,332 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Pronoun (personal) | 65.44% | 4,144 | 2,373 |
| Noun (singular) | 34.01% | 2,154 | 4,054 |
| Determiner (possessive) | 0.3% | 19 | 80,337 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 0.08% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 0.08% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.08% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Unclassified Items | 0.02% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 6,332 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "MINE". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Elioenai | N/A | Biblical | Toward him are mine eyes |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references.
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| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| Canada | High River Gold Mine Limited | USA | Mine Safety Appliances Co |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "MINE": a cousin of mine ♦ a friend of mine ♦ acoustic mine ♦ active mine ♦ an old flame of mine ♦ antenna mine ♦ antisweeper mine ♦ antitank mine ♦ armed mine ♦ Atlantic Mine ♦ bottom mine ♦ bouquet mine ♦ chemical mine ♦ claymore mine ♦ coal mine ♦ coarse mine ♦ combination influence mine ♦ combined influence mine ♦ command detonated mine ♦ contact mine ♦ controllable mine ♦ controlled mine ♦ copper mine ♦ creeping mine ♦ dead mine ♦ defensive mine countermeasures ♦ diamond mine ♦ dig a mine ♦ disarmed mine ♦ drifting mine ♦ drill mine ♦ exercise filled mine ♦ exercise mine ♦ exploit a mine ♦ explosive filled mine ♦ Fairy of the mine ♦ fitted mine ♦ floating mine ♦ free mine ♦ gold mine ♦ ground mine ♦ hit a mine ♦ homing mine ♦ horizontal action mine ♦ independent mine ♦ inert mine ♦ influence mine ♦ instructional mine ♦ intensity mine circuit ♦ iron mine ♦ it's m |