What does surface-mine mean?

surface-mine means "extract (ore) from a strip-mine".

How many syllables are in surface-mine?

surface-mine has 4 syllables and divides as sur-fa-ce--mine under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for surface-mine?

Close synonyms include strip mine, surface mine. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is surface-mine a common word?

surface-mine is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Surface-mine — meaning and 2 synonyms

verb

1 senseAn action, occurrence or state of being.

1.
extract (ore) from a strip-mine
Synonymsstrip mine surface mine
Broadermine
mining

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What does surface-mine mean?: surface-mine means "extract (ore) from a strip-mine".
How many syllables are in surface-mine?: surface-mine has 4 syllables and divides as sur-fa-ce--mine under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

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