Miner vs Minor - What's the difference?
miner | minor |
A person who works in a mine.
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A bird of one of four species of Australian endemic honeyeaters in the genus Manorina .
Of little significance or importance.
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(music) Of a scale which has lowered scale degrees three, six, and seven relative to major, but with the sixth and seventh not always lowered
(music) being the smaller of the two intervals denoted by the same ordinal number
A person who is below the legal age of majority, consent, criminal responsibility or other adult responsibilities and accountabilities.
A subject area of secondary concentration of a student at a college or university, or the student who has chosen such a secondary concentration.
* I had so many credit hours of English, it became my minor .
* I became an English minor .
(mathematics) determinant of a square submatrix
To choose or have an area of secondary concentration as a student in a college or university.
* I had so many credit hours of English, I decided to minor in it.
As nouns the difference between miner and minor
is that miner is a person who works in a mine while minor is a person who is below the legal age of majority, consent, criminal responsibility or other adult responsibilities and accountabilities.As an adjective minor is
of little significance or importance.As a verb minor is
to choose or have an area of secondary concentration as a student in a college or university.As a proper noun Minor is
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English
(wikipedia miner) (Manorina)Noun
(en noun)Subtle effects, passage=Manganism has been known about since the 19th century, when miners exposed to ores containing manganese, a silvery metal, began to totter, slur their speech and behave like someone inebriated.}}
Derived terms
* bell miner * black-eared miner * leaf miner * miner's lettuce * noisy miner * yellow-throated minerAnagrams
* ----minor
English
Alternative forms
* minour (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- The physical appearance of a candidate is a minor factor in recruitment.
- There is now such an immense "microliterature" on hepatics that, beyond a certain point I have given up trying to integrate (and evaluate) every minor paper published—especially narrowly floristic papers.
- a minor scale.
Synonyms
* See also * See alsoAntonyms
* majorNoun
(en noun)- It is illegal to sell weapons to minors under the age of eighteen.
