Mined vs Extracted - What's the difference?
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(mine)
My; belonging to me; that which belongs to me.
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An excavation from which ore or solid minerals are taken, especially one consisting of underground tunnels.
(military) A passage dug toward or underneath enemy lines, which is then packed with explosives.
(military) A device intended to explode when stepped upon or touched, or when approached by a ship, vehicle, or person.
(pyrotechnics) A type of firework that explodes on the ground, shooting sparks upward.
(entomology) The cavity made by a caterpillar while feeding inside a leaf.
(ambitransitive) To remove (ore) from the ground.
To dig into, for ore or metal.
* Ure
To sow mines (the explosive devices) in (an area).
To damage (a vehicle or ship) with a mine (an explosive device).
To dig a tunnel or hole; to burrow in the earth.
To dig away, or otherwise remove, the substratum or foundation of; to lay a mine under; to sap; to undermine; hence, to ruin or destroy by slow degrees or secret means.
* Hayward
* Sir Walter Scott
(extract)
That which is extracted or drawn out.
A portion of a book or document, incorporated distinctly in another work; a citation; a quotation.
A decoction, solution, or infusion made by drawing out from any substance that which gives it its essential and characteristic virtue; essence; as, extract of beef; extract of dandelion; also, any substance so extracted, and characteristic of that from which it is obtained; as, quinine is the most important extract of Peruvian bark.
A solid preparation obtained by evaporating a solution of a drug, etc., or the fresh juice of a plant; -- distinguished from an abstract.
(obsolete) A peculiar principle (fundamental essence) once erroneously supposed to form the basis of all vegetable extracts; -- called also the extractive principle.
Ancestry; descent.
A draft or copy of writing; a certified copy of the proceedings in an action and the judgment therein, with an order for execution.
To draw out or forth; to pull out; to remove forcibly from a fixed position, as by traction or suction, etc.
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, title= To withdraw by expression, distillation, or other mechanical or chemical process. Compare abstract (transitive verb).
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, title= To take by selection; to choose out; to cite or quote, as a passage from a book.
* Jonathan Swift
(arithmetic) To determine (a root of a number).
As verbs the difference between mined and extracted
is that mined is (mine) while extracted is (extract).mined
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Verb
(head)Anagrams
*mine
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Etymology 1
(etyl) .Pronoun
- Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord: /
Usage notes
* . * Historically, (term) came to be used only before a consonant sound, and later came to be used regardless of the following sound. Nonetheless, (term) still sees archaic pre-vocalic use, as may be seen in the 1862 quotation above.See also
(English personal pronouns)Etymology 2
From (etyl), from (etyl) (m), from .Noun
(en noun) view of an anti-tank landmine- This diamond comes from a mine in South Africa.
- He came out of the coal mine with a face covered in black.
- Most coal and ore comes from open-pit mines nowadays.
- His left leg was blown off after he stepped on a mine .
- The warship was destroyed by floating mines .
Derived terms
* anti-personnel mine * anti-tank mine * coal mine * gold mine, goldmine * land mine, landmine * limpet mine * magnetic mine * minefield * minelayer * mine of information * miner * mineral * mine run * mine shaft, mineshaft * minesweeper * mineworker * naval mine * open-pit mine * proximity mine * proxy mine * salt mine * strip-mine, strip mineVerb
(min)- Crater of Diamonds State Park is the only place in the world where visitors can mine their own diamonds.
- Lead veins have been traced but they have not been mined .
- We had to slow our advance after the enemy mined the road ahead of us.
- the mining cony
- They mined the walls.
- Too lazy to cut down these immense trees, the spoilers had mined them, and placed a quantity of gunpowder in the cavity.
Derived terms
* miner * miningEtymology 3
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* ----extracted
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Verb
(head)extract
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(wikipedia extract)Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (that which is extracted) extraction * origin, extractionDerived terms
* yeast extractSee also
* tinctureVerb
(en verb)- to extract a tooth from its socket, a stump from the earth, or a splinter from the finger
- The bee / Sits on the bloom extracting liquid sweet.
Yesterday’s fuel, passage=The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania. The first barrels of crude fetched $18 (around $450 at today’s prices).}}
- to extract an essential oil from a plant
A punch in the gut, passage=Mostly, the microbiome is beneficial. It helps with digestion and enables people to extract a lot more calories from their food than would otherwise be possible. Research over the past few years, however, has implicated it in diseases from atherosclerosis to asthma to autism.}}
- I have extracted out of that pamphlet a few notorious falsehoods.