Definition of "mine"

That which belongs to me.

1. Used predicatively.  examples

2. Used substantively, with an implied noun.  examples

3. Used absolutely, set off from the sentence.  examples

My; belonging to me.

1. (archaic) Used attributively after the noun it modifies.  quotations

   Quotations

   • […] Flesh and blood, / You, brother mine, that entertain'd ambition, / […]

     1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act V, scene i]

2. (archaic) Used attributively before a vowel.  quotations

   Quotations

   • Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord: / […]

     1862 February, Julia Ward Howe, “The Battle Hymn of the Republic”, in The Atlantic Monthly, volume IX, number LII, page 10

   • Mine host, it seemed, did favors for everybody...

     1930 Winter, Packard Motor Car Company, The Packard Magazine, Volume 9, Number 2, page 6

An excavation from which ore or solid minerals are taken, especially one consisting of underground tunnels.  examples

(figurative) Any source of wealth or resources.  quotations  examples

(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.  quotations

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

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

(computing) A machine or network of machines used to extract units of a cryptocurrency.  examples

(transitive, intransitive) To remove (rock or ore) from the ground.  examples

To dig into, for ore or metal.  quotations  examples

(transitive) To sow mines (the explosive devices) in (an area).  examples

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

(intransitive) To dig a tunnel or hole; to burrow in the earth.  examples

To dig away, or otherwise remove, the substratum or foundation of; to lay a mine under; to sap; to undermine.  quotations  examples

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

(slang) To pick one's nose.

(cryptocurrencies) To earn new units of cryptocurrency by doing certain calculations.  quotations  examples

Alternative form of mien  examples