Mine | Mean of mine in English Dictionary

/ˈmaɪn/

• that which belongs to me
1. The book is mine. [=it is my book]
2. Those books are mine. [=those are my books]
3. Mine is the book on the left. [=my book is the one on the left]
4. His eyes are blue and mine are brown.
5. a former professor/friend of mine [=one of my former professors/friends]
• my home
1. Let's go back to mine for a drink.
• Noun
• a pit or tunnel from which minerals (such as coal, gold, diamonds, etc.) are taken

• a bomb that is placed in the ground or in water and that explodes when it is touched
• a rich source of something (such as information)
1. He has proven to be a mine [=gold mine] of information. [=he has provided a large amount of information]
• Verb
• to dig a mine in order to find and take away coal, gold, diamonds, etc.
1. The area was soon filled with prospectors who were mining for gold.
2. Prospectors mined the region for diamonds.
• to find and take away (coal, gold, diamonds, etc.) from a mine
1. Local people were hired to mine the gold.
• to search for something valuable in (something)
1. Police have been mining the tapes for information. [=they have been listening to the tapes in order to get information from them]
• to put mines (sense 2) in or under (something)
1. The enemy had mined the harbor.
2. The road was mined.