(music) Any diatonic scale whose first, third, and fifth scale degrees form a minor triad. / (music) The natural minor scale.

Willing to consider new and different ideas or opinions.

(informal) An instant; an extremely short time.

A large peninsula, mostly coterminous with Anatolia, between the Mediterranean Sea, the Aegean Sea and the Black Sea; it makes up the Asian part of Turkey.

One who minds, tends, or watches something such as a child, a machine, or cattle; a keeper. / (Britain) A personal bodyguard.

The tall slender tower of an Islamic mosque, from which the muezzin recites the adhan (call to prayer).

(idiomatic) To be very careful to behave correctly.

The activity of removing solid valuables from the earth. / (figuratively) Any activity that extracts or undermines. / (military) The activity of placing mines (the explosive devices).

present participle of mine

Threatening, menacing.