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mining
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun mining has 2 senses
- mining(n = noun.act) excavation - the act of extracting ores or coal etc from the earth; Array is a kind of production
- mining(n = noun.act) minelaying - laying explosive mines in concealed places to destroy enemy personnel and equipment; Array is a kind of defence, defense, defensive measure
has particulars: placer mining, opencast mining, strip mining
Derived form verb mine1
Derived form verb mine2
CIDE DICTIONARY
The act or business of making mines or of working them. [1913 Webster]
mining, a.
Of or pertaining to mines; as, mining engineer; mining machinery; a mining region. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
mining
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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