Meaning of MINING
| Pronunciation: | | 'mIning
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- [n] the act of extracting ores or coal etc from the earth
- [n] laying explosive mines in concealed places to destroy enemy personnel and equipment
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| | Synonyms: | | excavation, minelaying |
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| | See Also: | | defence, defense, defensive measure, opencast mining, placer mining, production, strip mining | |
| Products Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | Mining
The America at Work series introduces young children to the people, machines and environmental concerns involved in two leading resource-based industries. Fishing explains how fish farmers in Maine raise salmon and halibut, and traces the fascinating life journey of a wild salmon in Alaska. In Mining, kids explore an underground mine, a surface coal mine and an oil drilling site. Combining fact and fiction with colorful illustrations, these stories deliver an early lesson in appreciating and protecting our natural resources. more details ... |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\Min"ing\, n. [See {Mine}, v. i.]
The act or business of making mines or of working them.
\Min"ing\, a.
Of or pertaining to mines; as, mining engineer; mining
machinery; a mining region.
{Mining engineering}. See the Note under {Engineering}.
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| | Definition: | | Seeing mining in your dream means that your rivals is seeking your downfall by stirring up your past mistakes. |
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| | Related Terms: | | architecture, assembly, avulsion, building, casting, coal mining, composition, construction, conversion, crafting, craftsmanship, creation, cultivation, cutting out, deepening, depression, deracination, devising, digging, disentanglement, drawing, drawing out, dredging, drilling, elaboration, engraving, enucleation, eradication, erection, evolvement, evulsion, excavation, excision, expression, exsection, extirpation, extraction, extrication, fabrication, fashioning, formation, forming, formulation, framing, gold fever, gold mining, gold rush, growing, handicraft, handiwork, harvesting, indentation, lowering, machining, making, manufacture, manufacturing, milling, molding, placer claim, placer mining, prefabrication, preparation, pressing out, probing, processing, producing, pulling, quarrying, raising, refining, removal, ripping out, shaping, sinkage, sinking, smelting, squeezing out, strip mining, tunneling, unrooting, uprooting, withdrawal, workmanship, wresting out |
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