mined

5 definitions • 7 examples

past simple and past participle of

to dig coal or another substance out of the ground:

mine for The company is mining for gold and diamonds.

They mine a lot of copper around these parts.

to place or hide mines in an area of land or sea:

be heavily mined The desert was heavily mined.

to use special software to look at large amounts of computer data in order to find out useful information:

There is a lot of banking data just waiting to be mined.

The program mines text using a variety of Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques.

The software mines companies' databases for sales opportunities.

to use special software to try to obtain new cryptocurrency (= digital currency produced by a public network rather than by a government):

Since 2009, the number of bitcoins mined has skyrocketed.