Definitions
1.PronounThat or those belonging to me.
Used predicatively."The house itself is mine, but the land is not.; These books are mine.; Mine has been a long journey.; Mine for only a week so far, it already feels like an old friend.; We had the party at mine.; This house of mine is over 100 years old."
2.PronounUsed predicatively."The house itself is mine, but the land is not.; These books are mine."
3.PronounUsed substantively, with an implied noun."Mine has been a long journey."
4.PronounUsed absolutely, set off from the sentence."Mine for only a week so far, it already feels like an old friend."
5.PronounMy house or home."We had the party at mine."
6.PronounAs double possessive."This house of mine is over 100 years old."
7.DeterminerMy; belonging to me.
Used attributively after the noun it modifies.
Used attributively before a vowel.
8.DeterminerUsed attributively after the noun it modifies.
9.DeterminerUsed attributively before a vowel.
10.NounAn 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."
11.NounAny source of wealth or resources."She's a mine of information about the history of mathematics."
12.NounA passage dug toward or underneath enemy lines, which is then packed with explosives."The most famous mine of the American Civil War led to the Battle of the Crater."
13.NounA 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."
14.NounA type of firework that explodes on the ground, shooting sparks upward.
15.NounThe cavity made by a caterpillar while feeding inside a leaf.
16.NounA machine or network of machines used to extract units of a cryptocurrency."A change to the blockchain method was contemplated to allow mines to hog less electric power."
17.VerbTo remove (rock or ore) from the ground."Crater of Diamonds State Park is the only place in the world where visitors can mine their own diamonds."
18.VerbTo dig into, for ore or metal.
19.VerbTo sow mines (the explosive devices) in (an area)."We had to slow our advance after the enemy mined the road ahead of us."
20.VerbTo damage (a vehicle or ship) with a mine (an explosive device).
21.VerbTo dig a tunnel or hole; to burrow in the earth."the mining cony"
22.VerbTo dig away, or otherwise remove, the substratum or foundation of; to lay a mine under; to sap; to undermine.
23.VerbTo ruin or destroy by slow degrees or secret means.
24.VerbTo tap into.
25.VerbTo pick one's nose.
26.VerbTo earn new units of cryptocurrency by doing certain calculations.
27.NounAlternative form of mien.