Mining

Definition

mine 1 /maÇn / possess pron ကြၽန္ေတာ့္ (ကြၽန္ေတာ္၏)၊ ငါ့ (ငါ၏) ပစၥည္း၊ ဟာ စသည္။ That book is mine. ❍ He's a friend of mine (ie one of my friends). Compare MY. mine 2 /maÇn / n ၁။ သတၱဳတြင္း။ မိုင္း။ a silver mine ❍ go/work down a mine ❍ The hillside is covered in mine workings. Compare PIT 1 ၃ , QUARRY 2 n See also COALMINE ၂။ မိုင္းဗံုး။ မိုင္း။ lay anti-personnel/anti-tank mines ❍ clear the coastal waters of mines. See also LAND-MINE v ၁။ (က) ~ (for sth) (ဓာတ္သတၱဳ) တူးသည္။ mining for gold/diamonds (ခ) ~ A (for B)/ ~ B (from A) (ဓာတ္ သတၱဳ) တူးေဖာ္သည္။ mine the earth for iron ore ❍ Gold is mined from deep underground. ၂။ (က) မိုင္းဗံုးေထာင္ သည္။ မိုင္းေထာင္သည္။ မိုင္းခင္းသည္။ မိုင္းခ်သည္။ mine the entrance to a harbour. (ခ) မိုင္းခြဲသည္။ မိုင္းထိသည္။ The cruiser was mined, and sank in five minutes. ❏ a mine of information (about/ on sb/sth) [ IDM ] (…ႏွင့္ ပတ္သက္၍) ဗဟုသုတဟင္းေလးအိုး။ My grandmother is a mine of information about our family's history. ❏ mining n [U] ဓာတ္သတၱဳ တူးေဖာ္ျခင္း။ သတၱဳတြင္း လုပ္ငန္း။ tin-mining ❍ a mining village/community ❍ mining equipment.

Examples

1. Can I borrow your keys? I can’t find mine.
2. Most people would think a job like mine utterly boring.
3. This must be your T-shirt. Mine has stains on it.
4. [of mine] : I got the idea from a friend of mine.