Mining
['maɪnɪŋ]
Definition
(noun.) the act of extracting ores or coal etc from the earth.
(noun.) laying explosive mines in concealed places to destroy enemy personnel and equipment.
Editor: Lois--From WordNet
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mine
(v. i.) The act or business of making mines or of working them.
(a.) Of or pertaining to mines; as, mining engineer; mining machinery; a mining region.
Editor: Maris
Definition
n. the art of forming or of working mines: the work of a miner.—adj. of or pertaining to mines: of burrowing habits.
Edited by Clio
Unserious Contents or Definition
To see mining in your dreams, denotes that an enemy is seeking your ruin by bringing up past immoralities in your life. You will be likely to make unpleasant journeys, if you stand near the mine. If you dream of hunting for mines, you will engage in worthless pursuits.
Edited by Bonita
Examples
- As I had had some previous experience with the statements of mining men, I concluded I would just send down a small plant and prospect the field before putting up a large one. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- In mining there are stamp mills, ore crushers, separators, concentrators, and amalgamators. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The first railroads to be built were principally branches of the Liverpool and Manchester one, and chiefly located in the mining and manufacturing county of Lancaster. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- The profits of mining would for some time be very great, and much above their natural rate. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- I shall also do a little in the mining way. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- He found a considerable quantity in the sluice-boxes of the Cherokee Valley Mining Company; but just then he found also that fruit-gardening was the thing, and dropped the subject. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- This ore could be excavated very cheaply by means of improved mining facilities, and transported at low cost to lake ports. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Perhaps quarrying would be a better term than mining in this case, as Edison's plan was to approach the rock and tear it down bodily. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The sense of talk, buzzing, jarring, half-secret, the endless mining and political wrangling, vibrated in the air like discordant machinery. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- For the encouragement of the mining trade, the 5th of William and Mary, chap. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- He kept in mind the practical purposes of mining, and soon people flocked to Freiberg to hear him from all the quarters o f Europe. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- At Newcastle, the centre of the mining country, a dinner was given in his honor, and a service of plate, worth over twelve thousand dollars, was presented to him. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Powell, who was a mining engineer by education, stated that we had uncovered over a million dollars worth of ore in a trifle over three months. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- I walked down to the valley, in order to get my messmates to go on with that mining work in the pass; but I felt a bit headachy and queer. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- He was born in Saxony and came of a family which had engaged for three hundred years in mining and metal working. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
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