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Demeanor; facial expression or attitude, especially one which is intended by its bearer.
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A specific facial expression.
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An excavation from which ore or solid minerals are taken, especially one consisting of underground tunnels.
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Any source of wealth or resources.
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A passage dug toward or underneath enemy lines, which is then packed with explosives.
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A device intended to explode when stepped upon or touched, or when approached by a ship, vehicle, or person.
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A type of firework that explodes on the ground, shooting sparks upward.
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The cavity made by a caterpillar while feeding inside a leaf.
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A machine or network of machines used to extract units of a cryptocurrency.
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To remove (ore) from the ground.
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To dig into, for ore or metal.
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To sow mines (the explosive devices) in (an area).
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To damage (a vehicle or ship) with a mine (an explosive device).
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To dig a tunnel or hole; to burrow in the earth.
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To dig away, or otherwise remove, the substratum or foundation of; to lay a mine under; to sap; to undermine.
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(by extension) To ruin or destroy by slow degrees or secret means.
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To pick one's nose.
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To earn new units of cryptocurrency by doing certain calculations.
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Variation of mine, formed through analogy based on the final -s of the other possessive pronouns (ours, yours, hers, theirs, his)
Examples of mines in a Sentence
Coal.The principal mines of France are coal and iron mines.
If they didn't own the ore mines, they'd be using rocks to fight.
The mines will chain-detonate.
Most of the mines are operated under " non-union " rules.
Romas rescued me from the cave before you blew up the mines.
There are mines of silver, copper, lignite and salt, and many hot springs, including some of great repute medicinally.
He died on the 26th of February 1608, leaving a large fortune from lead mines discovered in the Mendip Hills.
The more important mines are those of Cobar, where the Great Cobar mine produces annually nearly 4000 tons of refined copper.
The mines are worked on the most scientific lines.
He also imported great quantities of English coal and had an agency at Newcastle as well as an interest in some English mines.
Extensive coal mines are in the vicinity, and there are manufactures of iron and steel, mill machinery, door and sash factories, etc., as well as several shipbuilding yards.
The government let the mines to contractors for forty years and then took them over; but in the period from 1720 to 1840 only 14,620 tons of galena were extracted and 2772 of lead.
There are besides in the island 10 gymnasia, 3 lycees, 6 technical and nautical schools and institutes (including a school of mines at Iglesias), and 9 other institutes for various branches of special education.
Between this and the "elliptical" kraal are the "Valley Ruins," consisting of smaller buildings which may have been the dwellings of those traders who bartered the gold brought in from distant mines.
Near the source of the Tigris, at Arghana-Ma'den, are copper mines.
The city throve on the freighting trade of the mines.
Here are the oldest and most celebrated copper mines in Europe.
It was found in some abundance at the end of the 18th century in the copper mines of the St Day district in Cornwall, and has since been found at a few other localities, for example, at Konigsberg near Schemnitz in Hungary, and in the Tintic district in Utah.
The greatest development of quartz reefing is found in Victoria, some of the mines being of great depth.
There are eight mines in the Bendigo district over 3000 ft.
At Broken Hill mines about 11,000 miners are employed.
The returns from the copper fields in the state are at present a little over half a million sterling per annum, and would be still greater if it were not for the lack of suitable fuel for smelting purposes, which renders the economical treatment of the ore difficult; the development of the mines is also retarded by the want of easy and cheaper communication with the coast.
The association of this metal with silver in the Broken Hill mines of New South Wales adds very greatly to the value of the product.
The mines, however, are situated too far from the coast to permit of serious competition with Newcastle in an export trade, and the output is practically restricted to supplying local requirements.
The first of these comprises chiefly the mines of the Hunter river districts; the second includes the Illawarra district, and, generally, the coastal regions to the south of Sydney, together with Berrima, on the tableland; and the third consists of the mountainous regions on the Great Western railway and extends as far as Dubbo.
The coal mines of New South Wales give employment to 14,000 persons, and the annual production is over 6,600,000 tons.
The finest opal known is obtained in the Upper Cretaceous formation at White Cliffs, near Wilcannia, New South Wales, and at these mines about 700 men find constant employment.
Victoria produced already more wool than New South Wales,the aggregate produce of Australia in 1852 being 45,000,000 lb; and South Australia, between 1842 and this date, had opened most valuable mines of copper.
The copper mines of South Australia were for the time deserted, while Tasmania and New Zealand lost many inhabitants, who emigrated to the more promising country.
The Chinese difficulty, so far as the mining population was concerned, was solved by the exhaustion of the extensive alluvial deposits; the miners' prejudice against the race, however, still exists, though they are no longer serious competitors, and the laws of some of the states forbid any Chinese to engage in mining without the express authority in writing of the minister of mines.
On the 6th of September the silver mines closed down, and a week later a conference of employers issued a manifesto which was met next day by a counter-manifesto of the Intercolonial Labour Conference, and almost immediately afterwards by the calling out of 40,000 men.
It has large coal mines, which form the south-western portion of the extensive Upper Silesian coal fields, the largest Austrian deposit.
It is noticed that labourers employed in deep mines worked by shafts suffer less from fever than do those who are engaged in stripping the alluvial deposits.
Belleville is in a rich agricultural region, and in the vicinity there are valuable coal mines, the first of which was sunk in 1852; from this dates the industrial development of the city.
The results of his work at Babylon appeared first in the Vienna serial Mines de l'orient, and in 1815 in England, under the title Narrative of a Journey to the Site of Babylon in 1811.
The modern town in the immediate neighbourhood, still known as Fokia, was founded by the Genoese in 1421 on account of the rich alum mines in the neighbourhood.
In cases where the direction of the air motion is always the same, as in the ventilating shafts of mines and buildings for instance, these anemometers, known, however, as air meters, are employed, and give most satisfactory results.
The mines near the city are very productive, and thousands of men and beasts are employed in transporting lead, iron, copper, zinc and sulphur to the coast.
Its silver and gold mines were the source of great wealth both to the Carthaginians and to the Romans.
The number of mines increased from 589 in 1881 to 1580 in 1902.
The bulk of the sulphur mines are in Sicily, while the majority of the lead and zinc mines are in Sardinia; much of the lead smelting is done at Pertusola, near Genoa, the company formed for this purpose having acquired many of the Sardinian mines.
Italy has only unimportant lignite and anthracite mines, but water power is abundant and has been largely applied to industry, especially in generating electricity.
Lincoln is situated in a productive grain region, and has valuable coal mines.
Near Tokat copper pyrites, with iron and manganese, kaolin and coal are found; but most of the copper worked here comes from the mines of Keban Maden and Arghana Maden, on the upper Euphrates and Tigris.
The mines were visited some years ago by Dr Fritz Noetling, and the mineral has been described by Dr Otto Helm.
Later writers, Posidonius, Diodorus, Strabo and others, call them smallish islands off (Strabo says, some way off) the north-west coast of Spain, which contained tin mines, or, as Strabo says, tin and lead mines - though a passage in Diodorus derives the name rather from their nearness to the tin districts of north-west Spain.
The Eastern railway has works at Romilly, and there are iron works at Clairvaux and wire-drawing works at Plaines; but owing to the absence of coal and iron mines, metal working is of small importance.
The gold and platinum mines of Choco were on some of its affluents, and the river sands are auriferous.
The chief mineral product is the asphalt of the mines of Seyssel on the eastern frontier, besides which potter's clay, building stone, hydraulic lime and cement are produced in the department.
These mines are the richest in Austria, and among the most remarkable in the world.