Mined
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /maɪnd/ · Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Mined is an adjective meaning That has been mined (in various senses).
Meaning
That has been mined (in various senses).
More Meanings
- simple past and past participle of mine
Example Sentences
The mined block is added to the "blockchain", a big, unbreakable ledger that lives on the bitcoin network and serves as a record of all transactions.
Some diamond industry analysts believe artificial diamonds are about to become their own market, separate from that for the traditional – and more exclusive – one for mined diamonds.
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ruled in 2018 that lab-grown diamonds are included in the same definitional universe as mined diamonds but warned against the use of terms like "natural" in marketing that confused the two categories.
Fifteen years after the end of one of Africa's longest wars, Angola remains one of the world's most heavily mined countries. Swaths of Angola are still littered with land mines, some produced decades ago in countries that no longer exist.
Synonyms for mined
Depending on context, synonyms include strip-mined.
Antonyms for mined
Common opposites include unmined.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include strip-mined, affected, bomb, booby-trapped, clip, contaminated.
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