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Miner vs. Minor

Miner and Minor Definitions

Miner

One whose work or business it is to extract ore or minerals from the earth.

Minor

Lesser or smaller in amount, extent, or size.

Miner

A machine for the automatic extraction of minerals, especially of coal.

Minor

Lesser in importance, rank, or stature
A minor politician.

Miner

A soldier, often a specialist, engaged in mining operations.

Minor

Lesser in seriousness or danger
A minor injury.
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Miner

(Zoology) A leaf miner.

Minor

(Law) Not having reached legal adulthood.

Miner

A person who works in a mine.

Minor

Chiefly British Relating to or being the younger or junior of two pupils with the same surname.

Miner

An operator of ordnance mines and similar explosives.

Minor

Of or relating to a secondary area of academic specialization.
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Miner

Any bird of one of four species of Australian endemic honeyeaters in the genus Manorina.

Minor

(Logic) Dealing with a more restricted category.

Miner

Any bird of one of several species of South American ovenbirds in the genus Geositta.

Minor

Relating to or being a minor scale.

Miner

(cryptocurrency) Software or hardware that mines, or creates new units of cryptocurrency; someone engaged in mining.

Minor

Less in distance by a half step than the corresponding major interval.
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Miner

One who mines; a digger for metals, etc.; one engaged in the business of getting ore, coal, or precious stones, out of the earth; one who digs military mines; as, armies have sappers and miners.

Minor

Based on a minor scale
A minor key.

Miner

Any of numerous insects which, in the larval state, excavate galleries in the parenchyma of leaves. They are mostly minute moths and dipterous flies.

Minor

One that is lesser in comparison with others of the same class.

Miner

Laborer who works in a mine

Minor

(Law) One who has not reached legal adulthood.

Minor

A secondary area of specialized academic study, requiring fewer courses or credits than a major.

Minor

One studying in a secondary area of specialization
She is a physics minor.

Minor

A minor premise.

Minor

A minor term.

Minor

(Music) A minor key, scale, or interval.

Minor

Minors(Sports) The minor leagues of a sport, especially baseball.

Minor

To pursue academic studies in a minor field
Minored in music.

Minor

Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option, particularly:
Of minor importance

Minor

(law) Underage, not having reached legal majority.
The defendant resides at 123 Fake Street with his partner and two minor children.

Minor

Not serious, not involving risk of death, permanent injury, dangerous surgery, or extended hospitalization.
She suffered a minor injury... There was minor bruising... He has a minor case of puppy love...

Minor

(music) Smaller by a diatonic semitone than the equivalent major interval.
The interval between minor third while C to E is a major third.

Minor

(music) Incorporating a minor third interval above the (in scales) tonic or (in chords) root note, tending to produce a dark, discordant, sad, or pensive effect.

Minor

Of or related to a minor, a secondary area of undergraduate study.
The minor requirements only involve about 20 hours of classes.

Minor

(mathematics) Of or related to a minor, a determinate obtained by deleting one or more rows and columns from a matrix.

Minor

(logic) Acting as the subject of the second premise of a categorical syllogism, which then also acts as the subject of its conclusion.

Minor

The younger of two pupils with the same surname.

Minor

Of or related to the relationship between the longa and the breve in a score.

Minor

Having semibreves twice as long as a minim.

Minor

Of or related to a minority party.

Minor

(law) A child, a person who has not reached the age of majority, consent, etc. and is legally subject to fewer responsibilities and less accountability and entitled to fewer legal rights and privileges.
No, he can't get a mortgage or sell the house. He's still a minor. For the most part, he can't sign a legally binding contract.

Minor

A lesser person or thing, a person, group, or thing of minor rank or in the minor leagues.
He plays in the minors... She hasn't won a minor since the Sichuan Open... The play is considered one of his minors...

Minor

(music) minor interval, etc.

Minor

A formally recognized secondary area of undergraduate study, requiring fewer course credits than the equivalent major.
I got a minor in English Lit.

Minor

A person who is completing or has completed such a course of study.
I became an English minor.

Minor

(mathematics) A determinant of a square matrix obtained by deleting one or more rows and columns.

Minor

(Catholicism) Minor: a Franciscan friar, a Clarist nun.

Minor

(logic) minor term.

Minor

(baseball) minor league: the lower level of teams.

Minor

(ice hockey) minor penalty: a penalty requiring a player to leave the ice for 2 minutes unless the opposing team scores.

Minor

(Australian football) behind: a one-point kick.

Minor

Ellipsis of minor point: a lesser score formerly gained by certain actions.

Minor

(bridge) minor suit; a card of a minor suit.

Minor

(entomology) Any of various noctuid moths in Europe and Asia, chiefly in the Oligia and Mesoligia genera.

Minor

(entomology) A leaf-cutter worker ant intermediate in size between a minim and a media.

Minor

(campanology) Changes rung on six bells.

Minor

An adolescent, a person above the legal age of puberty but below the age of majority.

Minor

Synonym of subtrahend, the amount subtracted from a number.

Minor

The younger brother of a pupil.

Minor

Inferior in bulk, degree, importance, etc.; less; smaller; of little account; as, minor divisions of a body.

Minor

Less by a semitone in interval or difference of pitch; as, a minor third.

Minor

A person of either sex who has not attained the age at which full civil rights are accorded; an infant; in England and the United States, one under twenty-one years of age.

Minor

The minor term, that is, the subject of the conclusion; also, the minor premise, that is, that premise which contains the minor term; in hypothetical syllogisms, the categorical premise. It is the second proposition of a regular syllogism, as in the following: Every act of injustice partakes of meanness; to take money from another by gaming is an act of injustice; therefore, the taking of money from another by gaming partakes of meanness.

Minor

A Minorite; a Franciscan friar.

Minor

A young person of either sex;
She writes books for children
They're just kids
`tiddler' is a British term for youngsters

Minor

Of lesser importance or stature or rank;
A minor poet
Had a minor part in the play
A minor official
Many of these hardy adventurers were minor noblemen
Minor back roads

Minor

Lesser in scope or effect;
Had minor differences
A minor disturbance

Minor

Inferior in number or size or amount;
A minor share of the profits
Ursa Minor

Minor

Of a scale or mode;
The minor keys
In B flat minor

Minor

Not of legal age;
Minor children

Minor

Of lesser seriousness or danger;
Suffered only minor injuries
Some minor flooding
A minor tropical disturbance

Minor

Of your secondary field of academic concentration or specialization

Minor

Of the younger of two boys with the same family name;
Jones minor

Minor

Warranting only temporal punishment;
Venial sin

Minor

Limited in size or scope;
A small business
A newspaper with a modest circulation
Small-scale plans
A pocket-size country

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