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acquaintance
Noun
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An acquaitance is someone you know slightly but not well.
He's an old acquaintance of mine.
of
Preposition
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Made using.
It is a house of cards.
mine
Pronoun
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If something is mine, it belongs to me.
Give that back to me! It's mine!
mine
Noun
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A mine is a large hole in the ground from which rocks and minerals are taken.
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A mine is a device that explodes when it is touched, or when a ship, vehicle, or person comes close to it.
mine
Verb
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If you mine rocks or minerals, you dig them out of the ground.
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If you mine an area, you dig a mine there.
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If you mine an area, you put exploding mines there.
The soldiers mined the field to help kill their enemies.