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Definition: Strip Mine |
Strip MineNoun1. An open mine (usually for coal) where the seams run close to the surface. Verb1. Extract (ore) from a strip-mine. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Mining | A stripping; an opencut mine in which the overburden is removed from a coalbed before the coal is taken out. See also:opencast; opencut;openpit mine. (references) |
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Synonym: Strip MineSynonym: surface mine (v). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: strip-mined (mining). |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Concavity | Noun: concavity, depression, dip; hollow, hollowness; indentation, intaglio, cavity, dent, dint, dimple, follicle, pit, sinus, alveolus, lacuna; excavation, strip mine; trough; (furrow); honeycomb. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Strip Mine |
| English words defined with "strip mine": deep-mined. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "strip mine": coal stripper ♦ explosive stripping ♦ horseback excavator ♦ LOADING-SHOVEL OILER ♦ pit foreman, punch mining ♦ SPOIL PILES, STRIPPING-SHOVEL OPERATOR. (references) |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
strip mine | 9 |
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| Language | Translations for "strip mine"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Hungarian | külszíni bánya (outcrop mine, surface mine), külfejtésű bánya. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | ipstray inemay открытая шахта. (various references) | ||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-i-i-m-n-p-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: imprints, interims, minister, misinter, misprint, primines, pristine. | |
-2 letters: emptins, imprest, imprint, inspire, interim, minster, minters, mintier, miriest, mistier, permits, pietism, piniest, pinites, pismire, pitiers, primine, primsie, pterins, remints, rimiest, spinier, termini, tiepins, tipsier. | |
-3 letters: esprit, estrin, imines, inerts, insert, instep, inters, intime, merits, miners, minter, mispen, mister, miters, mitier, mitres, niters, nitres, permit. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-i-i-m-n-p-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: imprinters, misprinted, springtime. | |
+2 letters: impairments, patrimonies, springtimes, temporising. | |
+3 letters: aminopterins, distempering, imperilments, impetrations, importancies, imprecations, imprisonment, meanspirited, mifepristone, misinterpret, misreporting, operationism, premonitions, premunitions, reimposition, sempiternity, xiphisternum. | |
+4 letters: anisometropia, anisometropic, chemisorption, computerising, extemporising, imperfections, impersonality, impersonating, impersonation, impertinences, importunities, impregnations, impressionist, imprisonments, mifepristones, minicomputers, misanthropies, misinterprets, misperception, operationisms, pedestrianism, perfectionism, premoistening, pretermission, primitiveness, primogenitors, protectionism, recomposition, reimpositions, slipstreaming, supermilitant, superminister. | |
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