Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The process or business of extracting ore or minerals from the ground.
- noun The process of digging under an enemy emplacement or fortification to destroy it by explosives, cause it to collapse, or gain access to it for an attack.
- noun The process of laying explosive mines.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of burrowing habits: as, the rabbit is a mining animal.
- Insidious; working by underhand means.
- noun The business or work of a miner: also used attributively: as, a mining engineer; mining tools.
- noun The area of mining-ground held under federal or State law by one claimant or association by virtue of one location and entry. In consequence of the peculiar right to follow a vein of ore beyond the line of the boundary upon the surface, it may be more correctly, though still somewhat vaguely, defined as a tract of mineral land, the owner of which is entitled to the surface rights and all subjacent minerals, together with certain lateral rights of mining beyond the boundary, and subject to the similar lateral rights of adjoining owners. When two veins connect or cross, priority of title generally gives a preference. Coal-land claims may be entered for not exceeding 160 acres to each individual, or 320 acres to each association. As to placer-mining claims, see
placer-claim , under placer.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act or business of making mines or of working them.
- adjective Of or pertaining to mines
- adjective See the Note under
Engineering .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The activity of removing solid valuables from the earth.
- noun figuratively Any extractive activity.
- noun military The activity of placing explosives underground, rigged to explode
- verb Present participle of
mine .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun laying explosive mines in concealed places to destroy enemy personnel and equipment
- noun the act of extracting ores or coal etc from the earth
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“No, sir, I do not; I am what they call a mining captain.”
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"I'm not what you call a mining man; that is, I've never owned or operated a mine, but I take a great interest in examining the different ores and always try to get as much information regarding them as possible."
At the Time Appointed J. N. [Illustrator] Marchand
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"If this is what you call mining, I'm full of it."
Colonial Born A tale of the Queensland bush G. Firth Scott 1900
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As discussed on previous calls, we're pursuing a strategy of what we call mining the core.
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What I had read earlier was that his experience in mining made him knowledgeable in handling large technical operations and he became something of a hero.
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Thorium mining is a terrible justification for space exploitation.
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Look at the use of fossil fuel in mining, ore processing, steel making, etc.
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This foolish and contemptible product of years wasted in mining the shafts of indignation has been published by the cow-besieged, basketball-sotted sleep-away camp for hick bourgeois offspring, Indiana University, under the aegis of its University Press, a traditional dumping ground for academic deadwood so bereft of talent, intelligence, and endeavor as to be useless even in the dull precincts of midwestern state college classrooms.
P.J. O’Wowser superversive 2009
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