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Mine


Definition:

  • (n.) See Mien.
  • (pron. & a.) Belonging to me; my. Used as a pronominal to me; my. Used as a pronominal adjective in the predicate; as, "Vengeance is mine; I will repay." Rom. xii. 19. Also, in the old style, used attributively, instead of my, before a noun beginning with a vowel.
  • (v. i.) To dig a mine or pit in the earth; to get ore, metals, coal, or precious stones, out of the earth; to dig in the earth for minerals; to dig a passage or cavity under anything in order to overthrow it by explosives or otherwise.
  • (v. i.) To form subterraneous tunnel or hole; to form a burrow or lodge in the earth; as, the mining cony.
  • (v. t.) 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.
  • (v. t.) To dig into, for ore or metal.
  • (v. t.) To get, as metals, out of the earth by digging.
  • (v. i.) A subterranean cavity or passage
  • (v. i.) A pit or excavation in the earth, from which metallic ores, precious stones, coal, or other mineral substances are taken by digging; -- distinguished from the pits from which stones for architectural purposes are taken, and which are called quarries.
  • (v. i.) A cavity or tunnel made under a fortification or other work, for the purpose of blowing up the superstructure with some explosive agent.
  • (v. i.) Any place where ore, metals, or precious stones are got by digging or washing the soil; as, a placer mine.
  • (v. i.) Fig.: A rich source of wealth or other good.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We are pursuing legal action because there are still so many unanswered questions about the viability of Shenhua’s proposed koala plan and it seems at this point the plan does not guarantee the survival of the estimated 262 koalas currently living where Shenhua wants to put its mine,” said Ranclaud.
  • (2) If Cory Bernardi wasn’t currently in a period of radio silence as he contemplates his immediate political future he’d be all over this too, mining the Trumpocalypse – or in our domestic context, mining the fertile political fault line where Coalition support intersects with One Nation support.
  • (3) The mining activity does not seem to have contaminated drinking water significantly.
  • (4) I think of tattoos as art, but also, every time I look at mine, I relive the emotions I felt when I had them.
  • (5) Instead the textbook simply reads: "Traditional industries, such as shipbuilding and coal mining, declined ... during her premiership, there were a number of important economic reforms within the UK".
  • (6) I watched as she made the briefest eye contact with me on their way back, the flicker of hurt and sadness in her eyes reflecting mine, before the shutters came down.
  • (7) The story and the characters of Girl Online are mine.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Zoe Sugg, aka Zoella with her debut book ‘Girl Online’.
  • (8) From the large database available, there is no evidence of a consistent association between any particular cell type and specific mining exposure.
  • (9) She consciously destroyed the workforces in places like the railways, for example, and the mines, and the steelworks … so that transition from adolescence to adulthood was destroyed, consciously, and knowingly.
  • (10) Its few remaining mines involve people digging coal out of hillsides.
  • (11) That stake in eight Indonesian coal mines represents 1GT of future carbon dioxide emissions, more than Germany’s annual output.
  • (12) Merrin, 64, worked at the mining group Sherritt for 10 years and rose to be chief operating officer before leaving in 2004.
  • (13) This brings lads like 12-year-old Matthew Mason down from the magnificent studio his father Mark, from a coal-mining town ravaged by pit closures, lovingly built him in the back garden at Gants Hill, north-east London.
  • (14) After allowance for the fact that regression analyses suggested that the proportion of tremolite in dust was probably 2.5 times higher in Thetford Mines, Quebec, than in Charleston, the results from both matched pair and stratification analyses of tremolite fibre concentrations in lung were almost the same as for chrysotile.
  • (15) One hundred and twenty five patients with non-specific lung diseases were exa mined with a view to the relation and interrelations between lung ventilation, acid base equilibrium and lipopectic lung function.
  • (16) An intelligence officer told Associated Press that they were aware of the movement, but that the military is acting with care as many civilians are still trapped in the town and Boko Haram is laying land mines around it.
  • (17) In the southern state of Karnataka, corruption is blamed for uncontrolled mining in vast areas of protected forest.
  • (18) In the still active mine workers, dynamic spirometry results showed no difference between smokers or nonsmokers or between underground and surface workers.
  • (19) Iodine content of iodinated salt intended only for human consumption was eyamined in samples from all domestic manufacturers (salt mines in: Tuzla, Pag, Ulcinj, Ston, Nin, Seca-Portoroz).
  • (20) The ability of these women to tell their stories – and mine to translate them for the authorities in whose hands their fates lie – is intrinsic to their ability to find safety and, hopefully, get justice.

Tubbing


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tub
  • (n.) The forming of a tub; also, collectively, materials for tubs.
  • (n.) A lining of timber or metal around the shaft of a mine; especially, a series of cast-iron cylinders bolted together, used to enable those who sink a shaft to penetrate quicksand, water, etc., with safety.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) As the bath filled up, his siblings were also forced into the tub and Kristy became submerged in the water.
  • (2) To cap it all, the shadow foreign secretary and Unionist tub-thumper Douglas Alexander hijacked the row to berate the independence camp for lowering the debate's tone.
  • (3) The day before he died, he spent the whole day in the hot tub with his family.
  • (4) As the sachets of powder, tubs of lotion, jars of jam, and bottles of juices and liqueurs that line his shelves testify, his hopes – and his money – are on a rather more niche fruit: baobab.
  • (5) Tub-Ag activity associated with a protein of the same molecular size was demonstrated in the serum, as well as in Pronase extracts of all the organs tested, including kidney, liver, lung, spleen, intestine, stomach, and heart.
  • (6) The excessive heat and sweating was related to the use of a hot tub, a hot water bottle, a steam bath, an electric blanket, the prolonged wearing of a polyester suit, and postoperative bed confinement.
  • (7) By Monday lunchtime, we had a hot tub ready to give to Skye.
  • (8) After that, he retrieved a coin from a tub of fermented milk with his teeth.
  • (9) Swimming pools produce 6-20 immersion accidents per year per 100,000 children at risk, and the domestic family bath tub produces 1-78.
  • (10) These plants can grow very large and are often planted in tubs.
  • (11) The pathology of the kidney of the rats with proteinuria was that of a typical membranous glomerulonephritis; thickening of glomerular capillary walls with granular deposits of gamma-globulin and Tub-Ag was observed.
  • (12) Persistent, massive proteinuria appeared still later, more than 30 days after injection, when anti-Tub-Ag disappeared and Tub-Ag reappeared in the serum of some of those rats.
  • (13) According to own examinations of the following things are often contaminated with pathogenic microorganisms: appliances for sucking off, handbrushes, instruments, beds, clinical clothing, washing basins, bath tubs and floor sinks.
  • (14) We report on 108 patients of the literature: 8 (7%) patients were wearing hard contact lenses; 19 (17%) remembered a trauma; 4 (3.7%) had visited a hot tub; 61 (56%) needed penetrating keratoplasty, 11 (10%) rekeratoplasty; 5 (4.6%) eyes were enucleated; in 21 (19%) patients the diagnosis was made on histological grounds.
  • (15) Portland meanwhile had been giving themselves very little margin in some of their victories over rivals (including Seattle) of late, but opened up a tub of I Can't Believe it's Not Goals™ in a 5-0 final day win against Chivas USA, to get their own last nagging doubts out of the way before the playoffs start.
  • (16) *** I sometimes wonder when precisely I stopped thinking of myself as a socialist – as with so much else, I’d like to blame Blair for it; I’d like to tub-thumpingly decry his emasculation of the Labour party; his resistance to true industrial democracy; his personal greed and public duplicity – and, most of all, his enthusiastic participation in the Bush administration’s self-deluding “military interventions”.
  • (17) 18, 6409-6412], unsatisfactory results were obtained with AmpliTaq and native Taq polymerase (poor reproducibility, low product yield, nonspecific products), whereas Tub polymerase completely failed to amplify this fragment.
  • (18) The ratio of the count rate per unit activity for source locations within a 30 x 23-cm water-filled tub phantom to the count rate per unit activity for Tc-99m point sources of known activity imaged in air was used to judge the accuracy of activity determination.
  • (19) Since herpesvirus has been shown to survive in the hot tub environment, herpes simplex should be considered as another potential cause of disease in the spa setting.
  • (20) As an electoral reform campaigner, I'd been invited to speak at a big fringe meeting, and I'd prepared a tub-thumping rabble-rousing speech, guaranteed to instil in the faintest of hearts the passion I felt about the injustices of the current electoral system.

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