mine

• enPR: mīn, IPA^(key): /maɪn/

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• Rhymes: -aɪn

From Middle English min, myn, from Old English 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, Swedish and Norwegian min, Icelandic mín.

mine

1. My; belonging to me; that which belongs to me.
   1. Used predicatively.

      The house itself is mine, but the land is not.

   2. Used substantively, with an implied noun.

      Mine has been a long journey.

   3. Used absolutely, set off from the sentence.

      Mine for only a week so far, it already feels like an old friend.

   4. (archaic) Used attributively after the noun it modifies.
      • a. 1611, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act V, Scene 1:

        […] Flesh and blood, / You, brother mine, that entertain'd ambition, / […]

   5. (archaic) Used attributively before a vowel.
      • 1862 February, Julia Ward Howe, "The Battle Hymn of the Republic", in The Atlantic Monthly, Volume IX, Number LII, page 10,

        Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord: / […]

• My and mine are essentially two forms of the same word, with my being used attributively before the noun, and mine being used in all other cases, as may be seen in most of the usage examples and quotations above. In this respect, this word is analogous to most of the other possessive pronouns (e.g. your vs. yours), as well as a number of other noun modifiers, such as lone/alone.
• Historically, my came to be used only before a consonant sound, and later came to be used regardless of the following sound. Nonetheless, mine still sees archaic pre-vocalic use, as may be seen in the 1862 quotation above.

From Middle English, from Old French mine, from Late Latin mina, from Gaulish (compare to Welsh mwyn, Irish míanach (“ore”)), from Proto-Celtic *mēnis (“ore, metal”).

mine (plural mines)

Entrance to a gold mine in Victoria, Australia

Cutaway view of an anti-tank landmine

1. An excavation from which ore or solid minerals are taken, especially one consisting of underground tunnels.

   This diamond comes from a mine in South Africa.

   He came out of the coal mine with a face covered in black.

   Most coal and ore comes from open-pit mines nowadays.

2. (figuratively) Any source of wealth or resources.

   She's a mine of information.

3. (military) A passage dug toward or underneath enemy lines, which is then packed with explosives.
4. (military) A device intended to explode when stepped upon or touched, or when approached by a ship, vehicle, or person.

   His left leg was blown off after he stepped on a mine.

   The warship was destroyed by floating mines.

5. (pyrotechnics) A type of firework that explodes on the ground, shooting sparks upward.
6. (entomology) The cavity made by a caterpillar while feeding inside a leaf.
7. (computing) A machine or network of machines used to extract units of a cryptocurrency.

mine (third-person singular simple present mines, present participle mining, simple past and past participle mined)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To remove (ore) from the ground.

   Crater of Diamonds State Park is the only place in the world where visitors can mine their own diamonds.

2. To dig into, for ore or metal.
   • Ure

     Lead veins have been traced […] but they have not been mined.

3. (transitive) To sow mines (the explosive devices) in (an area).

   We had to slow our advance after the enemy mined the road ahead of us.

4. (transitive) To damage (a vehicle or ship) with a mine (an explosive device).
5. (intransitive) To dig a tunnel or hole; to burrow in the earth.

   the mining cony

6. To dig away, or otherwise remove, the substratum or foundation of; to lay a mine under; to sap; to undermine.
   • Hayward

     They mined the walls.

   • Sir Walter Scott

     Too lazy to cut down these immense trees, the spoilers […] had mined them, and placed a quantity of gunpowder in the cavity.

7. (by extension, figuratively) To ruin or destroy by slow degrees or secret means.
8. (slang) To pick one's nose.
9. (computing) To earn new units of cryptocurrency by doing certain calculations.

• miner
• mining

Borrowed from French mine.

mine (plural mines)

1. Alternative form of mien

• Emin, Mien, mien

mine

1. Alternative form of mini

From Proto-Germanic *mēnô.

mine

1. moon
   • 1562, Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq:

     Mine. Luna.

• IPA^(key): [ˈmɪnɛ]
• Rhymes: -ɪnɛ
• Hyphenation: mi‧ne

mine

1. third-person singular present indicative of minout

• IPA^(key): /miːnə/, [ˈmiːnə], [ˈmiːn̩]

mine c (singular definite minen, plural indefinite miner)

1. look, air, mien
2. (military) mine
3. pit

mine

1. (possessive) Plural form of min

• IPA^(key): /min/

• audio (une mine)

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• Rhymes: -in

From Vulgar Latin *mina, Gaulish *meina (see also Welsh mwyn, Irish míanach (“ore”)), from Proto-Celtic *mēnis (“ore, metal”).

mine f (plural mines)

1. mine (excavation or explosive)
2. pencil lead

Borrowed from Breton min (“beak, muzzle”) (from Proto-Celtic *mēnis, in the sense of "red")[1], or from Italian mina, from Latin minio (“to redden”).[2]

mine f (plural mines)

1. appearance, physical aspect; expression

• avoir bonne mine
• avoir mauvaise mine
• faire bonne mine à mauvais jeu
• faire mine de/que
• mine de rien

From miner

mine

1. first-person singular present indicative of miner
2. third-person singular present indicative of miner
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of miner
4. first-person singular present subjunctive of miner
5. second-person singular imperative of miner

• mien

• “mine” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmʲɪnʲə/

mine

1. genitive feminine singular of mion
2. comparative degree of mion

mine f

1. genitive singular of min

mine f

1. plural of mina

• meni

mine

1. Rōmaji transcription of みね

Borrowed from Old French mine.

mine f

1. ore vein, mine

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• Dutch: mijn
• Limburgish: mien

See the etymology of the main entry.

mine

1. inflection of mijn:
   1. feminine nominative and accusative singular
   2. nominative and accusative plural

• “mine (II)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, 1929

mine (subjective pronoun I)

1. Alternative form of min

mine (subjective I)

1. Alternative form of min

• “min, (pron.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 6 May 2018.

From Old Norse mínir, or from Old French mine

mine f or m (definite singular mina or minen, indefinite plural miner, definite plural minene)

1. a mine (excavation or explosive)

• minefelt

mine

1. plural of min

• “mine” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “min” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): /²miːnə/ (example of pronunciation)

From Old Norse mínir, or from Old French mine

mine f (definite singular mina, indefinite plural miner, definite plural minene)

1. a mine (excavation or explosive)

• minefelt

mine (present tense minar/miner, past tense mina/minte, past participle mina/mint, passive infinitive minast, present participle minande, imperative mine/min)

1. Alternative form of mina

mine

1. plural of min

• “mine” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
• “min” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Proto-Nguni *miná.

miné

1. I, me; first-person singular absolute pronoun.

mine

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of minar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of minar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of minar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of minar

• Rhymes: -ine

From Latin mē, possibly through a Vulgar Latin root *mēne, or through analogy with cine, from *quene, from quem. It also possibly acquired this ending through adopting the common Latin accusative inflection -inem. Compare tine, sine. Compare also Aromanian mini, Dalmatian main.

mine (stressed accusative form of eu)

1. (direct object, preceded by preposition, such as "pe", "cu", "la", or "pentru") me

   mă iubești pe mine? - Do you love me?

• mă (unstressed form)

• tine
• sine

mine

1. plural of mină

• IPA^(key): /məin/

mine

1. mine

mine f

1. genitive singular of min

mine

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of minar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of minar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of minar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of minar.

From Proto-Nguni *miná.

miné

1. I, me; first-person singular absolute pronoun.

• (Lövånger) IPA^(key): [mìːɳe̞]

  Rhymes: -ìːnɛ

mine n sg

1. (possessive pronoun): dative neuter singular of männ