intermine

present singular third person intermines · participle present intermining · participle past intermined · past intermined

1. obsoleteTo intersect or penetrate with minerals.

   These are preore faults intermined by intrusion.

   2018, Vladimir Litvinenko, Geomechanics and Geodynamics of Rock Masses, page 25

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   Her earth with Allome veines most richly intermin'd.

   1622, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, song 28 p. 146

   The soil is porous; the surface from a few inches to about a foot and a half consisting of earth more or less intermined with sand , below this is laterite, and underlying this is sand and disintegrated green stone.

   1878, Medical and Sanitary Report of the Native Army of Madras, page 23

2. broadlyIntermix; intersperse.

   Typical field exercises will involve leap-frogging and short runs of high speed and agility intermined with periods of slower movement or stopping.

   1982, Hearings On Military Posture And H.R. 5968, page 690

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   After supper were brought in upon the place the fair wooden gospels—that is to say, many pairs of tables and cards—with little small banquets, intermined with collations and reer-suppers.

   1534, François Rabelais, Gargantua

   Open violence produced little effect on so patient a people, and although the Mahomedans subsequently lived for centuries, intermined with the Hindus, no radical change was produced in the manners or tenets of the latter; on the contrary, for almost a century past, the Mahomedans have evinced much deference to the prejudices of their Hindu neighbours, and a strong predelection towards many of their ceremonies.

   1908 June, “Swadeshi Notes: Social”, in The Dawn and Dawn Society's Magazine, volume 11, number 8, page 127

1. not comparableBetween mines.

   Previous researchers (for example, Grobbelaar, 2001), have investigated intermine flow.

   2004, B.H. Usher & F.D.I. Hodgson, “Turning a liabiliity into an asset: the case for South African coalmine waters”, in D. Stephenson, E.M. Shemang, T.R. Chaoka, editor, Water Resources of Arid Areas

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   In a rather more complex case, the concession offering in Zambia, which has extensive intermine operations in the Copper Belt, allowed bidders to choose to include any combination of Zambia's three railways: mainline operations, intermine operations, and passenger services.

   2011, Heinrich Bofinger, Africa's Transport Infrastructure

   Moreover, the concessionaire faced capacity constraints in terms of rolling stock which caused "deliberate withdrawal from local intermine traffic ”, as the concessionaire "gave priority to longer-distance traffic from the Copperbelt to South Africa at the expense of local intermine movement of bulk minerals and feeder traffic to Tazara ” ( Bullock 2009: 29, 49, n. 57; also interview Musonda, C).

   2023, Tim Zajontz, The Political Economy of China’s Infrastructure Development in Africa, page 139