mining

See also: Mining

Contents

EnglishEdit

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /ˈmaɪnɪŋ/
• Rhymes: -aɪnɪŋ

NounEdit

mining (countable and uncountable, plural minings)

2. The activity of removing solid valuables from the earth.

   gold mining

3. (figuratively) Any activity that extracts or undermines.

   His extensive mining for apparently statistically significant results made any of his results questionable.

   • Jonathan Swift

     […] the fabrick, however weak by the delicacy of its composition, would not have fallen so soon, if the foundation had not been injured by the slow minings of regret and vexation.

4. (military) The activity of placing explosives underground, rigged to explode
5. (computing) Creation of new units of cryptocurrency by validating transactions and demonstrating proof-of-work

Derived termsEdit

Terms derived from mining

• data mining
• defensive mining

• offensive mining
• open-pit mining

• strip-mining
• surface mining

DescendantsEdit

• → Russian: ма́йнинг (májning)

TranslationsEdit

activity of removing solid valuables from the earth

• Afrikaans: mynbou (af)
• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian: արդյունահանում (ardyunahanum), հանքային գործ (hankʿayin gorc), հանքարդյունաբերություն (hy) (hankʿardyunaberutʿyun)
• Catalan: mineria f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 採礦 (zh), 采矿 (zh) (cǎikuǎng), 礦業 (zh), 矿业 (zh) (kuàngyè)

• Czech: hornictví (cs) n, těžba (cs) f
• Danish: minedrift (da) c
• Finnish: kaivostoiminta (fi)
• French: ^{(please verify)} extraction minière
• Galician: minería f
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Bergbau (de) m
• Gujarati: ખાણકામ (khāṇkām)

• Irish: mianadóireacht f
• Italian: ^{(please verify)} estrazione mineraria f
• Japanese: 採鉱 (ja) (さいこう, saikō), 鉱業 (こうぎょう, kōgyō)
• Korean: 광업 (ko) (gwang-eop)
• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Mongolian: уурхай (mn) (uurhaj)
• Polish: górnictwo (pl) n
• Portuguese: mineração f
• Russian: добы́ча (ru) f (dobýča), го́рное де́ло (ru) n (górnoje délo)
• Serbo-Croatian: rudarstvo (sh) n
• Slovak: baníctvo n
• Spanish: minería (es) f
• Swedish: brytning (sv) c, gruvdrift c
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

figuratively

• Russian: добы́ча (ru) f (dobýča)

military

• Greek: ναρκοθέτηση (el) f (narkothétisi)

• Russian: мини́рование (ru) n (minírovanije)

creation of new units of cryptocurrency

• Russian: ма́йнинг (ru) m (májning)

VerbEdit

mining

1. present participle of mine

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Tok PisinEdit

EtymologyEdit

From English meaning.

NounEdit

mining

1. meaning