intermine

English

Etymology

inter- +‎ mine

Verb

intermine (third-person singular simple present intermines, present participle intermining, simple past and past participle intermined)

1. (obsolete) To intersect or penetrate with minerals.
   • 1622, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, song 28 p. 146:

     Her earth with Allome veines most richly intermin'd.

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

     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.

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

     These are preore faults intermined by intrusion.

2. (by extension) Intermix; intersperse.
   • 1534, François Rabelais, Gargantua:

     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.

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

     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.

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

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

Adjective

intermine (not comparable)

1. Between mines.
   • 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:

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

   • 2011, Heinrich Bofinger, Africa's Transport Infrastructure:

     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.

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

     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).

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