Miner vs. Minor

Miner vs. Minor — Is There a Difference?
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Difference Between Miner and Minor

Minernoun

A person who works in a mine.

Minoradjective

Of little significance or importance.

The physical appearance of a candidate is a minor factor in recruitment.

Minernoun

An operator of ordnance mines and similar explosives.

Minoradjective

(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

a minor scale

Minernoun

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

Minoradjective

(music) being the smaller of the two intervals denoted by the same ordinal number

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Minernoun

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

Minornoun

A person who is below the legal age of majority, consent, criminal responsibility or other adult responsibilities and accountabilities.

It is illegal to sell weapons to minors under the age of eighteen.

Minernoun

(computing) Software that mines, or creates new units of cryptocurrency.

Minornoun

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.

Minernoun

laborer who works in a mine

Minornoun

(mathematics) determinant of a square submatrix

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Minornoun

A younger brother (especially at a public school).

Minornoun

(zoology) A small worker in a leaf-cutter ant colony, sized between a minim and a media.

Minornoun

(logic) The term of a syllogism which forms the subject of the conclusion.

Minorverb

To choose or have an area of secondary concentration as a student in a college or university.

Minornoun

a young person of either sex;

she writes books for childrenthey're just kids`tiddler' is a British term for youngsters

Minoradjective

of lesser importance or stature or rank;

a minor poethad a minor part in the playa minor officialmany of these hardy adventurers were minor noblemenminor back roads

Minoradjective

lesser in scope or effect;

had minor differencesa minor disturbance

Minoradjective

inferior in number or size or amount;

a minor share of the profitsUrsa Minor

Minoradjective

of a scale or mode;

the minor keysin B flat minor

Minoradjective

not of legal age;

minor children

Minoradjective

of lesser seriousness or danger;

suffered only minor injuriessome minor floodinga minor tropical disturbance

Minoradjective

of your secondary field of academic concentration or specialization

Minoradjective

of the younger of two boys with the same family name;

Jones minor

Minoradjective

warranting only temporal punishment;

venial sin

Minoradjective

limited in size or scope;

a small businessa newspaper with a modest circulationsmall-scale plansa pocket-size country