Meaning

(obsolete) To intersect or penetrate with minerals..

Definitions by Sense

1. (obsolete) To intersect or penetrate with minerals.
2. (by extension) Intermix; intersperse.
3. Between mines.

Example Sentences

Her earth with Allome veines most richly intermin'd.

The soil is porous; the surface from a few inches to about a foot and a half consisting of earth more or less intermined with sand , below this is laterite, and underlying this is sand and disintegrated green stone.

These are preore faults intermined by intrusion.

After supper were brought in upon the place the fair wooden gospels—that is to say, many pairs of tables and cards—with little small banquets, intermined with collations and reer-suppers.

Open violence produced little effect on so patient a people, and although the Mahomedans subsequently lived for centuries, intermined with the Hindus, no radical change was produced in the manners or tenets of the latter; on the contrary, for almost a century past, the Mahomedans have evinced much deference to the prejudices of their Hindu neighbours, and a strong predelection towards many of their ceremonies.

Typical field exercises will involve leap-frogging and short runs of high speed and agility intermined with periods of slower movement or stopping.

Previous researchers (for example, Grobbelaar, 2001), have investigated intermine flow.

In a rather more complex case, the concession offering in Zambia, which has extensive intermine operations in the Copper Belt, allowed bidders to choose to include any combination of Zambia's three railways: mainline operations, intermine operations, and passenger services.

Word Forms

• intermines
• intermining
• intermined

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When Should You Use Intermine?

Use intermine when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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