mining

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EnglishEdit

PronunciationEdit

• Rhymes: -aɪnɪŋ

NounEdit

mining ‎(countable and uncountable, plural minings)

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

   gold mining

2. (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.

3. (military) The activity of placing explosives underground, rigged to explode

Derived termsEdit

terms derived from mining

defensive mining offensive mining open-pit mining

strip-mining surface mining

TranslationsEdit

activity of removing solid valuables from the earth

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian: արդյունահանում ‎(ardyunahanum), հանքային գործ ‎(hankʿayin gorc), հանքարդյունաբերություն (hy) ‎(hankʿardyunaberutʿyun)
• 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: extraction minière
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Bergbau (de) m
• Irish: mianadóireacht 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)

VerbEdit

mining

1. present participle of mine

TranslationsEdit

present participle of to mine

• Finnish: louhia (fi)

Derived termsEdit

• data mining

Related termsEdit

• mine