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Definitioner
Pronomen
- My; belonging to me; that which belongs to me.
Substantiv
- An excavation from which ore or solid minerals are taken, especially one consisting of underground tunnels.
- (military) A passage dug toward or underneath enemy lines, which is then packed with explosives.
- (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.
- (entomology) The cavity made by a caterpillar while feeding inside a leaf.
Verb
- (ambitransitive) To remove (ore) from the ground.
- To dig into, for ore or metal.
- (transitive) To sow mines (the explosive devices) in (an area).
- (transitive) To damage (a vehicle or ship) with a mine (an explosive device).
- (intransitive) To dig a tunnel or hole; to burrow in the earth.
- To dig away, or otherwise remove, the substratum or foundation of; to lay a mine under; to sap; to undermine; hence, to ruin or destroy by slow degrees or secret means.
Exempel
- Watch out for mines!
- The seven dwarfs worked in a mine.
- De sju dvärgarna arbetade i en gruva.
- The book is mine.
- The warship was destroyed by floating mines.
- Too lazy to cut down these immense trees, the spoilers [...] had mined them, and placed a quantity of gunpowder in the cavity.
- They mined the walls.
- the mining cony
- We had to slow our advance after the enemy mined the road ahead of us.
- Lead veins have been traced [...] but they have not been mined.
- Crater of Diamonds State Park is the only place in the world where visitors can mine their own diamonds.
- The house itself is mine, but the land is not.
- His left leg was blown off after he stepped on a mine.
- Most coal and ore comes from open-pit mines nowadays.
- He came out of the coal mine with a face covered in black.
- This diamond comes from a mine in South Africa.
- Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord: / [...]
- [...] Flesh and blood, / You, brother mine, that entertain'd ambition, / [...]
- Mine for only a week so far, it already feels like an old friend.
- Mine has been a long journey.
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