det
Meaning 1
My; belonging to me.
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Usage: archaic, nonstandard
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det
My; belonging to me.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, nonstandard
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det
My; belonging to me.
Used attributively after the noun it modifies.
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Usage: archaic, nonstandard
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det
My; belonging to me.
Used attributively before a vowel.
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Usage: archaic, nonstandard
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noun
An excavation from which ore or solid minerals are taken, especially one consisting of underground tunnels.
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Broader terms: place, site
noun
Any source of wealth or resources.
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Usage: figuratively
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noun
A passage dug toward or underneath enemy lines, which is then packed with explosives.
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Topics: government, military, politics, war
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noun
A device intended to explode when stepped upon or touched, or when approached by a ship, vehicle, or person.
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Topics: government, military, politics, war
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Broader terms: munition, weapon
noun
A type of firework that explodes on the ground, shooting sparks upward.
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Qualifier: pyrotechnics
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noun
The cavity made by a caterpillar while feeding inside a leaf.
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Topics: biology, entomology, natural-sciences
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noun
A machine or network of machines used to extract units of a cryptocurrency.
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Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
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noun
Alternative form of mien.
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Usage: alt-of, alternative
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pron
That or those belonging to me.
Used predicatively.
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pron
That or those belonging to me.
Used substantively, with an implied noun.
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pron
That or those belonging to me.
Used absolutely, set off from the sentence.
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pron
That or those belonging to me.
My house or home.
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Usage: informal
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pron
That or those belonging to me.
As double possessive.
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pron
Honorific alternative letter-case form of mine, sometimes used when referring to God or another important figure who is understood from context.
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Usage: alt-of, honorific
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verb
To remove (rock or ore) from the ground.
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Usage: ambitransitive
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verb
To dig into, for ore or metal.
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verb
To sow mines (the explosive devices) in (an area).
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Usage: transitive
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verb
To damage (a vehicle or ship) with a mine (an explosive device).
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Usage: transitive
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verb
To dig a tunnel or hole; to burrow in the earth.
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Usage: intransitive
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verb
To dig away, or otherwise remove, the substratum or foundation of; to lay a mine under; to sap; to undermine.
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verb
To ruin or destroy by slow degrees or secret means.
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Usage: broadly, figuratively
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verb
To tap into.
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Usage: broadly, figuratively
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verb
To pick one's nose.
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Usage: slang
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verb
To earn new units of cryptocurrency by doing certain calculations.
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Topics: business, cryptocurrencies, cryptocurrency, finance
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noun
explosive device that explodes on contact; designed to destroy vehicles or ships or to kill or maim personnel
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Broader terms: explosive device
Narrower terms: floating mine, marine mine, land mine, ground-emplaced mine, booby trap
noun
excavation in the earth from which ores and minerals are extracted
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: excavation
Narrower terms: coal mine, coalpit, copper mine, goldmine, gold mine, salt mine, silver mine, strip mine, sulphur mine, sulfur mine
verb
lay mines
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: reinforce, reenforce
Narrower terms: countermine
verb
get from the earth by excavation
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Broader terms: exploit, tap
Narrower terms: strip mine, surface mine, surface-mine
History
From Middle English min, myn, from Old English mīn, from Proto-West Germanic *mīn, from Proto-Germanic *mīnaz, from Proto-Indo-European *méynos. Cognate with Saterland Frisian mien, West Frisian myn, Dutch mijn, Low German mien, German mein, Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish min, Faroese and Icelandic mín.
From Middle English, from Old French mine, from Late Latin mina, from Gaulish (compare to Welsh mwyn, Irish mianach (“ore”)), from Proto-Celtic *meinis (“ore, metal”).
Borrowed from French mine.
Across languages
455 source translations are retained for this English entry.