mine

Mine. Luna.


mine

third-person singular future indicative of minout


mine

head

mine c (singular definite minen, plural indefinite miner)

minen (definite singular)
miner (indefinite plural)
mine (indefinite nominative singular)
minen (definite nominative singular)
miner (indefinite nominative plural)
minerne (definite nominative plural)
mines (genitive indefinite singular)
minens (definite genitive singular)
miners (genitive indefinite plural)
minernes (definite genitive plural)


mine

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

These books are mine.

Ah, but how beautiful (my baby boy) is! And he is mine, mine for ever. Even if he hates me he will be mine. He cannot help it, he is made out of me; I am his father.

1905, E. M. Forster, Where Angels Fear to Tread, chapter 7

That or those belonging to me.
Used predicatively.

Mine has been a long journey.

Used substantively, with an implied noun.

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

Used absolutely, set off from the sentence.

We had the party at mine.

That or those belonging to me.
(informal) My house or home.

That or those belonging to me.
My house or home.

This house of mine is over 100 years old.

double possessive
double possessive#English

That or those belonging to me.
As double possessive.

(Attic Greek, possessive adjective with article in appropriate gender and number) ὁ ἐμός (ho emós)

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, Swedish and Norwegian min, Icelandic mín.


mine

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

1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:

Used attributively after the noun it modifies.

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

1862 February, Julia Ward Howe, “The Battle Hymn of the Republic”, in The Atlantic Monthly, volume IX, number LII, page 10:

1930 Winter, Packard Motor Car Company, The Packard Magazine, Volume 9, Number 2, page 6,
Mine host, it seemed, did favors for everybody...

(archaic) My; belonging to me.
Used attributively before a vowel.


mine

Meronyms: mine shaft, mineshaft; mine car

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.

en:excavation for obtaining ores or minerals

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

She's a mine of information about the history of mathematics.

To those seeking information about train services on the Continent, Cook's Continental Guide is always a mine of accurate information.

1962 December, “Beyond the Channel: U.S.S.R.: Train speeds still rising”, in Modern Railways, page 418:

en:any source of wealth or resources, figuratively

(figurative) Any source of wealth or resources.

The most famous mine of the American Civil War led to the Battle of the Crater.

en:excavation for explosives under or near enemy lines

(military) A passage dug toward or underneath enemy lines, which is then packed with explosives.

Holonym: minefield

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

The warship was destroyed by floating mines.

Pack ice, at times mounting to a height of 35 ft., snow, fog, and floating mines all played their part in the disorganisation of railway services, and most of the train ferry services were completely suspended for a month or more; [...].

1940 May, “Overseas Railways: Icebound Denmark”, in Railway Magazine, page 302:

(military) A device intended to explode when stepped upon or touched, or when approached by a ship, vehicle, or person.

(pyrotechnics) A type of firework that explodes on the ground, shooting sparks upward.

en:cavity made by caterpillar that is eating

(entomology) The cavity made by a caterpillar while feeding inside a leaf.

A change to the blockchain method was contemplated to allow mines to hog less electric power.

(computing) A machine or network of machines used to extract units of a cryptocurrency.

минно поле

military: passage packed with explosives

louhintakone

computing: machine or network used to extract units of cryptocurrency

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”).


mine

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

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

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

1837, Andrew Ure, Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures and Mines:

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

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

(transitive) To damage (a vehicle or ship) with a mine (an explosive device).

the mining cony

(intransitive) To dig a tunnel or hole; to burrow in the earth.

They mined the walls.

a. 1628 (date written), John Hayward, The Life, and Raigne of King Edward the Sixt, London: […] [Eliot’s Court Press, and J. Lichfield at Oxford?] for Iohn Partridge, […], published 1630, →OCLC:

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

1814 July 7, [Walter Scott], Waverley; or, ’Tis Sixty Years Since. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC:

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

(by extension, figurative) To ruin or destroy by slow degrees or secret means.

Coordinate term: mint

Bitcoin supporters say that estimates of its carbon footprint are overstated. And if the computers that mine and help transact bitcoins are attached to an electric grid that uses wind and solar power, they add, mining and using it will become cleaner over time.

2021 March 9, Andrew Ross Sorkin, “Bitcoin's Climate Problem”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(cryptocurrencies) To earn new units of cryptocurrency by doing certain calculations.

en-verb

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

mines (present singular third-person)
mining (participle present)
mined (participle past)
mined (past)

kaivaa

to dig a tunnel or hole; to burrow in the earth

kaivaa kuoppa alle

to remove the substratum or foundation of — see also undermine

nakertaa

to ruin or destroy by slow degrees or secret means

挖礦

computing: to earn new units of cryptocurrency


mine

→ Persian: مین (min)

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


mine

Borrowed from Breton min (“beak, muzzle”) (from Proto-Celtic *meinis, in the sense of "red"), or from Italian mina, from Latin miniō (“to redden”).


mine

first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive

inflection of miner:
second-person singular imperative


mine

inflection of mion:
genitive feminine singular


mine

Dutch: mijn

Limburgish: mien


mine

inflection of mijn:
feminine nominative/accusative singular

inflection of mijn:
nominative/accusative plural

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.


mine

mina (definite singular)
minen (definite singular)
miner (indefinite plural)
minene (definite plural)

From Old Norse mínir, or from Old French mine.


mine

mina (definite singular)
miner (indefinite plural)
minene (definite plural)


mine

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


mine

inflection of mīn:
accusative feminine singular

inflection of mīn:
instrumental masculine/neuter singular


mine

I, me; first-person singular absolute pronoun.


mine

first/third-person singular present subjunctive

inflection of minar:
third-person singular imperative


mine

mă iubești pe mine?

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

preceded by preposition; such as "pe"; "cu"; "la"; preceded by preposition; such as "pe"; "cu"; "la"

Inherited 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, Neapolitan mene.


mine

Inherited from Middle English min, myn, from Old English mīn, from Proto-West Germanic *mīn, from Proto-Germanic *mīnaz, from Proto-Indo-European *méynos.


mine

From Proto-Cushitic *min- (“house, to build”). Cognates include Oromo mana, Burji mina and Hadiyya mine.