Definitions for MiNE

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MiNE mine

Spelling: [mahyn]

IPA: /maɪn/

Mine is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 28 anagrams from letters in MiNE (eimn).

Definitions for MiNE

noun

1. an excavation made in the earth for the purpose of extracting ores, coal, precious stones, etc.
2. a place where such minerals may be obtained, either by excavation or by washing the soil.
3. a natural deposit of such minerals.
4. an abundant source; store:
5. a device containing a charge of explosive in a watertight casing, floating on or moored beneath the surface of the water for the purpose of blowing up an enemy ship that strikes it or passes close by it.
6. a similar device used on land against personnel or vehicles; land mine.
7. a subterranean passage made to extend under an enemy's works or position, as for the purpose of securing access or of depositing explosives for blowing up a military position.
8. a passageway in the parenchyma of a leaf, made by certain insects.
9. (used to denote the narrator of a literary work written in the first person singular).
10. Metaphysics. the ego.

pronoun

1. a form of the possessive case of I used as a predicate adjective:
2. something that belongs to me:
3. Archaic. my (used before a word beginning with a vowel or a silent h, or following a noun):
4. the nominative singular pronoun, used by a speaker in referring to himself or herself.

verb (used with object)

1. to dig in (earth, rock, etc.) in order to obtain ores, coal, etc.
2. to extract (ore, coal, etc.) from a mine.
3. to avail oneself of or draw useful or valuable material from:
4. to use, especially a natural resource:
5. to make subterranean passages in or under; burrow.
6. to make (passages, tunnels, etc.) by digging or burrowing.
7. to dig away or remove the foundations of.
8. to place or lay military or naval mines under:
9. Agriculture. to grow crops in (soil) over an extended time without fertilizing.
10. to remove (a natural resource) from its source without attempting to replenish it.

verb (used without object)

1. to dig in the earth for the purpose of extracting ores, coal, etc.; make a mine.
2. to extract coal, ore, or the like, from a mine.
3. to make subterranean passages.
4. to place or lay mines, as in military or naval operations.

Origin of MiNE

before 900; Middle English; Old English mīn my; cognate with Old Norse mīn, German mein, Gothic meina; see me

Examples for MiNE

Of course this isn't all mine; it includes ma's and Psyche's.

There was a lot of prison fiction from movies and books to mine.

I tell you he's alive and well, only he's lost your money and Pish's and mine and his own.

He is a countryman of mine; and I know he is as avaricious as an Odomantian.

I gave a reading last week with someone who had taken a class of mine.

It reminds me of an uncle of mine who said the London Blitz was irritating.

Her parents knew of this fact, but mine were ignorant of it.

She then concluded with the assertion that, “The story and the characters of Girl Online are mine.”

I wanted to be anonymous, as some of these people were friends of mine.

“And mine uncle was from the New Forest in Hampshire,” he said.