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Fougasse vs. Mine — What's the Difference?

Fougasse vs. Mine — What's the Difference?

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Fougasse

A flat, often leaf-shaped bread from Provence flavored with olive oil and topped with herbs, olives, or other items.

Mine

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

Fougasse

A type of lattice-shaped bread associated with the area of Provence.

Mine

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

Fougasse

An old-fashioned type of land mine, in the form of a foxhole filled with explosives or projectiles.
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Mine

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

Mine

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

Mine

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

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.

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.

Mine

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

Mine

To extract (ore or minerals) from the earth.

Mine

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

Mine

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

Mine

To make (a tunnel) by digging.

Mine

To lay explosive mines in or under.

Mine

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

Mine

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

Mine

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

Mine

To work in a mine.

Mine

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

Mine

To lay explosive mines.

Mine

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

Mine

That which belongs to me.

Mine

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

Mine

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

Mine

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

Mine

Used otherwise not directly before the possessed noun. en

Mine

My; belonging to me.

Mine

(archaic) Used attributively after the noun it modifies.

Mine

(archaic) Used attributively before a vowel.

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.

Mine

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

Mine

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

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.

Mine

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

Mine

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

Mine

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

Mine

Alternative form of mien

Mine

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

Mine

To dig into, for ore or metal.

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.

Mine

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

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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