'Mining' definitions:
Definition of 'mining'
(from WordNet)
noun
The act of extracting ores or coal etc from the earth [syn: mining, excavation]
noun
Laying explosive mines in concealed places to destroy enemy personnel and equipment [syn: mining, minelaying]
Definition of 'Mining'
From: GCIDE
- Mine \Mine\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Mined; p. pr. & vb. n. Mining.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. 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. [1913 Webster]
- They mined the walls. --Hayward. [1913 Webster]
- Too lazy to cut down these immense trees, the spoilers . . . had mined them, and placed a quantity of gunpowder in the cavity. --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To dig into, for ore or metal. [1913 Webster]
- Lead veins have been traced . . . but they have not been mined. --Ure. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To get, as metals, out of the earth by digging. [1913 Webster]
- The principal ore mined there is the bituminous cinnabar. --Ure. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Mining'
From: GCIDE
- Mining \Min"ing\, n. [See Mine, v. i.] The act or business of making mines or of working them. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Mining'
From: GCIDE
- Mining \Min"ing\, a. Of or pertaining to mines; as, mining engineer; mining machinery; a mining region. [1913 Webster]
- Mining engineering. See the Note under Engineering. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'mining'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- architecture,
- assembly,
- avulsion,
- building,
- casting,
- coal mining,
- composition,
- construction,
- conversion,
- crafting,
- craftsmanship,
- creation,
- cultivation,
- cutting out,
- deepening,
- depression,
- deracination,
- devising,
- digging,
- disentanglement,
- drawing,
- drawing out,
- dredging,
- drilling,
- elaboration,
- engraving,
- enucleation,
- eradication,
- erection,
- evolvement,
- evulsion,
- excavation,
- excision,
- expression,
- exsection,
- extirpation,
- extraction,
- extrication,
- fabrication,
- fashioning,
- formation,
- forming,
- formulation,
- framing,
- gold fever,
- gold mining,
- gold rush,
- growing,
- handicraft,
- handiwork,
- harvesting,
- indentation,
- lowering,
- machining,
- making,
- manufacture,
- manufacturing,
- milling,
- molding,
- placer claim,
- placer mining,
- prefabrication,
- preparation,
- pressing out,
- probing,
- processing,
- producing,
- pulling,
- quarrying,
- raising,
- refining,
- removal,
- ripping out,
- shaping,
- sinkage,
- sinking,
- smelting,
- squeezing out,
- strip mining,
- tunneling,
- unrooting,
- uprooting,
- withdrawal,
- workmanship,
- wresting out
Words containing 'Mining'
- Mine,
- Mined,
- Claymore mine,
- Fairy of the mine,
- Gold mine,
- Hydraulic mining,
- Kingston Mines,
- Lucerne Mines,
- Mine dial,
- Mine pig,
- Mining engineering,
- Powder mine,
- Salt mine,
- Submarine mine,
- To salt a mine,
- Undercharged mine,
- coal mine,
- copper mine,
- data mining,
- floating mine,
- land mine,
- magnetic mine,
- marine mine,
- mine detector,
- mine disposal,
- mine field,
- mine run,
- mining bee,
- mining company,
- mining engineer,
- mining geology,
- opencast mining,
- overcharged mine,
- placer mining,
- silver mine,
- strip mine,
- strip mining,
- sulfur mine,
- sulphur mine,
- surface mine,
- underwater mine,
- Kingston Mines, IL,
- Lucerne Mines, PA,
- Red Dog Mine,
- deep-mined,
- magnetic counter mine,
- run-of-the-mine,
- strip-mined,
- surface-mine,
- united mine workers,
- well-mined,
- Red Dog Mine, AK,
- ground-emplaced mine,
- united mine workers of america