Miner vs. Minor
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 scaleMinernoun
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
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
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 youngstersMinoradjective
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 roadsMinoradjective
lesser in scope or effect;
had minor differencesa minor disturbanceMinoradjective
inferior in number or size or amount;
a minor share of the profitsUrsa MinorMinoradjective
of a scale or mode;
the minor keysin B flat minorMinoradjective
not of legal age;
minor childrenMinoradjective
of lesser seriousness or danger;
suffered only minor injuriessome minor floodinga minor tropical disturbanceMinoradjective
of your secondary field of academic concentration or specialization
Minoradjective
of the younger of two boys with the same family name;
Jones minorMinoradjective
warranting only temporal punishment;
venial sinMinoradjective
limited in size or scope;
a small businessa newspaper with a modest circulationsmall-scale plansa pocket-size country
