mine

1. (archaic) My; belonging to me.Examples: "[…] Flesh and blood, / You, brother mine, that entertain'd ambition, / […]"

2. (archaic) My; belonging to me.Examples: "Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord: / […]"; "1930 Winter, Packard Motor Car Company, The Packard Magazine, Volume 9, Number 2, page 6, Mine host, it seemed, did favors for everybody..."

1. (figurative) Any source of wealth or resources.Examples: "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."

2. (military) A passage dug toward or underneath enemy lines, which is then packed with explosives.Examples: "The most famous mine of the American Civil War led to the Battle of the Crater."

3. (military) A device intended to explode when stepped upon or touched, or when approached by a ship, vehicle, or person.Examples: "Holonym: minefield"; "His left leg was blown off after he stepped on a mine."; "The warship was destroyed by floating mines."

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

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

6. (computing) A machine or network of machines used to extract units of a cryptocurrency.Examples: "A change to the blockchain method was contemplated to allow mines to hog less electric power."

1. (ambitransitive) To remove (rock or ore) from the ground.Examples: "Crater of Diamonds State Park is the only place in the world where visitors can mine their own diamonds."

2. (transitive) To sow mines (the explosive devices) in (an area).Examples: "We had to slow our advance after the enemy mined the road ahead of us."

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

4. (intransitive) To dig a tunnel or hole; to burrow in the earth.Examples: "the mining cony"

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

6. (by extension, figurative) To tap into.