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Cave vs. Mine — What's the Difference?

Cave vs. Mine — What's the Difference?

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Cave

A cave or cavern is a natural void in the ground, specifically a space large enough for a human to enter. Caves often form by the weathering of rock and often extend deep underground.

Mine

A hole or tunnel dug into the earth from which ore or minerals are extracted.

Cave

A natural underground chamber in a hillside or cliff
The narrow gorge contains a series of prehistoric caves

Mine

A surface excavation where the topmost or exposed layer of earth is removed for extracting its ore or minerals.

Cave

Explore caves as a sport
They say they cave for the adventure, challenge, and physical exercise
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Mine

The site of such a hole, tunnel, or excavation, including its surface buildings and equipment.

Cave

Capitulate or submit under pressure; cave in
He caved because his position had become untenable
She finally caved in the face of his persistence

Mine

A deposit of ore or minerals in the earth or on its surface.

Cave

(among children) look out!

Mine

An abundant supply or source of something valuable
This guidebook is a mine of information.

Cave

A hollow or natural passage under or into the earth, especially one with an opening to the surface.

Mine

A tunnel dug under an enemy emplacement to destroy it by explosives, cause it to collapse, or gain access to it for an attack.

Cave

A storage cellar, especially for wine.

Mine

An explosive device used to destroy enemy personnel, shipping, fortifications, or equipment, often placed in a concealed position and designed to be detonated by contact, proximity, or a time fuse.

Cave

To dig or hollow out.

Mine

A burrow or tunnel made by an insect, especially one made in a leaf by a leaf miner.

Cave

To cause to collapse or fall in. Often used with in
The impact caved in the roof of the car.

Mine

To extract (ore or minerals) from the earth.

Cave

To fall in; collapse. Often used with in
The walls caved in during the earthquake.

Mine

To dig a mine in (the earth) to obtain ore or minerals.

Cave

To give up all opposition; yield. Often used with in
The school committee caved in to the demands of parents.

Mine

To tunnel under (the earth or a surface feature).

Cave

To explore caves.

Mine

To make (a tunnel) by digging.

Cave

A large, naturally-occurring cavity formed underground or in the face of a cliff or a hillside.
We found a cave on the mountainside where we could take shelter.

Mine

To lay explosive mines in or under.

Cave

A hole, depression, or gap in earth or rock, whether natural or man-made.

Mine

To attack, damage, or destroy by underhand means; subvert.

Cave

A storage cellar, especially for wine or cheese.
This wine has been aged in our cave for thirty years.

Mine

To delve into and make use of; exploit
Mine the archives for detailed information.

Cave

A place of retreat, such as a man cave.
My room was a cozy cave where I could escape from my family.

Mine

To excavate the earth for the purpose of extracting ore or minerals.

Cave

(caving) A naturally-occurring cavity in bedrock which is large enough to be entered by an adult.
It was not strictly a cave, but a narrow fissure in the rock.

Mine

To work in a mine.

Cave

(nuclear physics) A shielded area where nuclear experiments can be carried out.

Mine

To dig a tunnel under the earth, especially under an enemy emplacement or fortification.

Cave

Debris, particularly broken rock, which falls into a drill hole and interferes with drilling.

Mine

To lay explosive mines.

Cave

(mining) A collapse or cave-in.

Mine

Used instead of my before an initial vowel or the letter h.

Cave

The vagina.

Mine

That which belongs to me.

Cave

A group that breaks from a larger political party or faction on a particular issue.

Mine

Used predicatively.
The house itself is mine, but the land is not.

Cave

(obsolete) Any hollow place, or part; a cavity.

Mine

Used substantively, with an implied noun.
Mine has been a long journey.

Cave

(programming) A code cave.

Mine

Used absolutely, set off from the sentence.
Mine for only a week so far, it already feels like an old friend.

Cave

To surrender.
He caved under pressure.

Mine

Used otherwise not directly before the possessed noun. en

Cave

To collapse.
First the braces buckled, then the roof began to cave, then we ran.

Mine

My; belonging to me.

Cave

To hollow out or undermine.
The levee has been severely caved by the river current.

Mine

(archaic) Used attributively after the noun it modifies.

Cave

To engage in the recreational exploration of caves.
I have caved from Yugoslavia to Kentucky.
Let's go caving this weekend.

Mine

(archaic) Used attributively before a vowel.

Cave

(mining) In room-and-pillar mining, to extract a deposit of rock by breaking down a pillar which had been holding it in place.
The deposit is caved by knocking out the posts.

Mine

An excavation from which ore or solid minerals are taken, especially one consisting of underground tunnels.
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.

Cave

To work over tailings to dress small pieces of marketable ore.

Mine

(figurative) Any source of wealth or resources.
She's a mine of information.

Cave

(obsolete) To dwell in a cave.

Mine

(military) A passage dug toward or underneath enemy lines, which is then packed with explosives.

Cave

Look out!; beware!

Mine

(military) A device intended to explode when stepped upon or touched, or when approached by a ship, vehicle, or person.
His left leg was blown off after he stepped on a mine.
The warship was destroyed by floating mines.

Cave

A hollow place in the earth, either natural or artificial; a subterraneous cavity; a cavern; a den.

Mine

(pyrotechnics) A type of firework that explodes on the ground, shooting sparks upward.

Cave

Any hollow place, or part; a cavity.

Mine

(entomology) The cavity made by a caterpillar while feeding inside a leaf.

Cave

A coalition or group of seceders from a political party, as from the Liberal party in England in 1866. See Adullam, Cave of, in the Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction.

Mine

(computing) A machine or network of machines used to extract units of a cryptocurrency.

Cave

To make hollow; to scoop out.
The mouldred earth cav'd the banke.

Mine

Alternative form of mien

Cave

To dwell in a cave.

Mine

(ambitransitive) To remove (rock or ore) from the ground.

Cave

To fall in or down; as, the sand bank caved. Hence (Slang), to retreat from a position; to give way; to yield in a disputed matter.

Mine

To dig into, for ore or metal.

Cave

An underground enclosure with access from the surface of the ground or from the sea

Mine

(transitive) To sow mines (the explosive devices) in (an area).
We had to slow our advance after the enemy mined the road ahead of us.

Cave

Hollow out as if making a cave or opening;
The river was caving the banks

Mine

(transitive) To damage (a vehicle or ship) with a mine (an explosive device).

Cave

Explore natural caves

Mine

(intransitive) To dig a tunnel or hole; to burrow in the earth.
The mining cony

Mine

To dig away, or otherwise remove, the substratum or foundation of; to lay a mine under; to sap; to undermine.

Mine

To ruin or destroy by slow degrees or secret means.

Mine

(slang) To pick one's nose.

Mine

(cryptocurrencies) To earn new units of cryptocurrency by doing certain calculations.

Mine

See Mien.

Mine

A subterranean cavity or passage

Mine

Any place where ore, metals, or precious stones are got by digging or washing the soil; as, a placer mine.

Mine

A rich source of wealth or other good.

Mine

An explosive device placed concealed in a location, on land or at sea, where an enemy vehicle or enemy personnel may pass through, having a triggering mechanism which detects people or vehicles, and which will explode and kill or maim personnel or destroy or damage vehicles. A mine placed at sea (formerly called a torpedo, see torpedo{2} (a)) is also called an marine mine and underwater mine and sometimes called a floating mine, even though it may be anchored to the floor of the sea and not actually float freely. A mine placed on land (formerly called a torpedo, see torpedo{3}), usually buried, is called a land mine.

Mine

Belonging to me; my. Used as a pronominal to me; my. Used as a pronominal adjective in the predicate; as, "Vengeance is mine; I will repay." Rom. xii. 19. Also, in the old style, used attributively, instead of my, before a noun beginning with a vowel.
I kept myself from mine iniquity.
When a man deceives me once, says the Italian proverb, it is his fault; when twice, it is mine.
This title honors me and mine.
She shall have me and mine.

Mine

To dig a mine or pit in the earth; to get ore, metals, coal, or precious stones, out of the earth; to dig in the earth for minerals; to dig a passage or cavity under anything in order to overthrow it by explosives or otherwise.

Mine

To form subterraneous tunnel or hole; to form a burrow or lodge in the earth; as, the mining cony.

Mine

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.
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.

Mine

To dig into, for ore or metal.
Lead veins have been traced . . . but they have not been mined.

Mine

To get, as metals, out of the earth by digging.
The principal ore mined there is the bituminous cinnabar.

Mine

Excavation in the earth from which ores and minerals are extracted

Mine

Explosive device that explodes on contact; designed to destroy vehicles or ships or to kill or maim personnel

Mine

Get from the earth by excavation;
Mine ores and metals

Mine

Lay mines;
The Vietnamese mined Cambodia

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