MINING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mining mean? 

• MINING (noun)
  The noun MINING has 2 senses:

1. the act of extracting ores or coal etc from the earth

2. laying explosive mines in concealed places to destroy enemy personnel and equipment

  Familiarity information: MINING used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MINING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of extracting ores or coal etc from the earth

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

excavation; mining

Hypernyms ("mining" is a kind of...):

production ((economics) manufacturing or mining or growing something (usually in large quantities) for sale)

Domain member category:

bore; bore-hole; drill hole (a hole or passage made by a drill; usually made for exploratory purposes)

drift; gallery; heading (a horizontal (or nearly horizontal) passageway in a mine)

fathom; fthm ((mining) a unit of volume (equal to 6 cubic feet) used in measuring bodies of ore)

rag (break into lumps before sorting)

hush (run water over the ground to erode (soil), revealing the underlying strata and valuable minerals)

hush (wash by removing particles)

mine (get from the earth by excavation)

strip mine; surface-mine; surface mine (extract (ore) from a strip-mine)

drive (excavate horizontally)

extract (separate (a metal) from an ore)

opencast; opencut ((of mines and mining) worked from the exposed surface)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mining"):

placer mining (mining valuable minerals from a placer by washing or dredging)

opencast mining; strip mining (the mining of ore or coal from an open mine)

Derivation:

mine (get from the earth by excavation)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Laying explosive mines in concealed places to destroy enemy personnel and equipment

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

minelaying; mining

Hypernyms ("mining" is a kind of...):

defence; defense; defensive measure ((military) military action or resources protecting a country against potential enemies)

Derivation:

mine (lay mines)

 Context examples 

Processed or unprocessed substances obtained from animal, plant, microorganism and mining source that provide nutrients for living organisms to maintain biological processes or functions.

(Food or Food Product, NCI Thesaurus)

During that time she ran free in a mining camp and wandered through woods or mountains, so that her education has come from Nature rather than from the schoolmaster.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The genome "mining" approach along with metagenomic sequencing gave the scientists a way to connect the natural chemicals produced by organisms back to the enzymes that constructed them.

(Bacteria living in marine sponge produce toxic compounds found in man-made products, NSF)

Much of it comes from human activities such as mining and manufacturing.

(Lead Poisoning, Agency for Toxic Substances Disease Registry)

A year later they were in Colorado, where Hans Nelson saw his first mining and caught the mining- fever himself.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Lead is a naturally occurring toxic metal, but sources of lead exposure are often due to human activities, including burning fossil fuels, mining, and manufacturing.

(Lead in kids’ blood linked with behavioral and emotional problems, NIH)

Others are the result of human activities, like lead poisoning from paint, or exposure to asbestos or mercury from mining or industrial use.

(Environmental Health, NIH: National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences)

It aims to establish the state-of-the-art in microarray data mining, as well as identify progress and highlight the direction for future effort.

(Critical Assessment of Microarray Data Analysis, NCI Thesaurus)

The Resource provides biochemical, hybridization, and scanning services, genome-wide SNP analysis and resequencing analysis, consultation in experimental design and data mining.

(Microarray Shared Resource, NCI Thesaurus)

Plants and soil in the Arctic tundra absorb and store mercury released into the atmosphere by industry and mining in the Earth's temperate regions, leading to soil mercury levels five times higher than in lower latitudes.

(Study finds mercury levels in Arctic soils 5 times higher than temperate regions, National Science Foundation)