Word Confusion: Mind versus Mined

Plural for the noun: minds
Gerund: minding

Third person present verb: minds
Past tense or past participle: minded
Present participle: minding

Plural for the noun: mines
Gerund: mining

Third person present verb: mines
Past tense or past participle: mined
Present participle: mining

• The faculty of consciousness and thought
• A person’s mental processes contrasted with physical action

Intellect or understanding, as distinguished from the faculties of feeling and willing

• A person’s memory, ability, or intellect
• A person identified with their intellectual faculties
• Intelligence

[Psychology] The totality of conscious and unconscious mental processes and activities

A person’s attention

• The will or determination to achieve something

A particular instance of the intellect or intelligence, as in a person

Reason, sanity, or sound mental condition

A way of thinking and feeling

• Disposition
• Temper

A state of awareness or remembrance

Opinion, view, or sentiments

Inclination or desire

Purpose, intention, or will

Psychic or spiritual being, as opposed to matter

A conscious or intelligent agency or being

Remembrance or recollection

• Memory

Attention

• Thoughts

[Chiefly South Midland and Southern US] Notice

• Attention

[Roman Catholic Church] A commemoration of a person’s death, especially by a Requiem Mass

[Initial capital letter] Mind

• Also called Divine Mind
• [Christian Science] God
• The incorporeal source of life, substance, and intelligence

Verb, intransitive:
Feel concern about

• [In imperative; informal] Used to make a command more insistent or to draw attention to a statement
• [In imperative; also mind you] Used to introduce a qualification to a previous statement

To pay attention

To obey

[Used chiefly in the imperative] To take notice, observe, or understand

To be careful or wary

[Often used in negative or interrogative constructions] To care, feel concern, or object

To regard a thing as concerning oneself or as mattering

Verb, transitive:
[Often with negative] Be distressed, annoyed, or worried by

• [Usually used in negative or interrogative constructions] Have an objection to
• To feel disturbed or inconvenienced by
• [With negative or in questions; mind doing something] Be reluctant to do something (often used in polite requests)
• [Informal; would not mind something] Used to express one’s strong enthusiasm for something

[Often with negative] Regard as important

• Feel concern about or at
• Care about

[With clause, in imperative] Used to urge someone to remember or take care to bring about something

• [In imperative] Used to warn someone to avoid injury or damage from a hazard
• [In imperative] Be careful about the quality or nature of
• To look after
• Take care of
• Tend
• To be careful, cautious, or wary about
• [North American & Irish] Be obedient to
• To heed or obey a person, advice, instructions, etc.
• [Scottish] Remember

Take care of temporarily

[With infinitive; be minded] Be inclined or disposed to do a particular thing

To regard as concerning oneself or as mattering

To pay attention to

To apply oneself or attend to

[Dialect] To perceive or notice

[Dialect] To remember

[Dialect] To remind

• [In singular noun] An abundant source of something

A type of bomb placed on or just below the surface of the ground or in the water that detonates when disturbed by a person, vehicle, or ship

• [Historical] A subterranean passage under the wall of a besieged fortress, especially one in which explosives are put to blow up fortifications

Verb, intransitive:
Dig in the earth for coal or other minerals

Verb, transitive:
Obtain coal or other minerals from a mine

• Dig in the earth for coal or other minerals
• Delve into (an abundant source) to extract something of value, especially information or skill
• Obtain units of (a cryptocurrency) by running a computer process to solve specific mathematical problems

Lay explosive mines on or just below the surface of (the ground or water)

• Destroy by means of an explosive mine

It’s hard to fathom the processes of the human mind.

People have the price they are prepared to pay settled in their minds.

I wrote a letter in my mind.

He had a keen mind.

The company’s name slips my mind.

He was one of the greatest minds of his time.

I expect my employees to keep their minds on the job.

Anyone can lose weight if they set their mind to it.

Paul is going to lose his mind.

She has a liberal mind.

The poem puts me in mind of experiences both new and forgotten.

I reserve the right to change my mind.

She’d have to be of a mind to listen.

Let me know your mind on this matter before Tuesday.

Former days were called to mind.

He can’t keep his mind on his studies.

When he’s like that, just pay him no mind.

He had an awareness of a mind ordering the universe.

Verb, intransitive:
Why should she mind about a few snubs from people she didn’t care for?

We’ve got some decorations up — not a lot, mind you.

Be early to bed tonight, mind.

Mind now, I want you home by twelve.

“Mind if I go?” “Don’t mind if you do.”

You mustn’t mind about their gossiping.

Verb, transitive:
I don’t mind the rain.

What does that mean, if you don’t mind my asking?

Do you mind if I have a cigarette?

I don’t mind admitting I was worried.

I wouldn’t mind some coaching from him!

Never mind the opinion polls.

Mind you look after the children.

Mind your head on that cupboard!

Mind the gap!

You think about how much Cal does for you, and you mind her, you hear?

I mind the time when he lost his false teeth.

We left our husbands to mind the children while we went out.

He was minded to reject the application.

The Board was given leave to object if it was so minded.

Mind what you say.

Would you mind handing me that book?

I’d like to remind you to mind your own business.

Don’t mind his bluntness.

The book contains a mine of information.

Be careful, this field is laced with land mines.

Military mines were used as early as 334 B.C. at the siege of Halicarnassus and in 332 B.C. at Gaza.

Verb, intransitive:
Many financiers managed to obtain concessions and mined for silver.

As children, we mined for China.

The area was heavily mined.

The entrance to the harbor had been mined.

Verb, transitive:
Jamie has mined coal, kitty litter, and rutile.

The hills were mined for copper oxide.

How do they manage to mine such a rich vein of talent?

If you mined bitcoin, you had to do it faster than anyone else.

We heavily mined the area.

They tunneled under and mined the castle wall.

Compare with the Welsh mwyn meaning ore.