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# miner

noun (miner, miners)

«miner» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A miner is a person who digs under the ground to get coal, gold, metal or stones. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/miner/#m1)
2. In old stories miners used picks, lamps and carts in dark tunnels. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/miner/#m2)

### In the lessons

a person in the story; miners can be counted, or they dig or find amounts of gold, coal or rock; in history and science miners get minerals and fuel from the earth; phrases «coal miner», «gold miner», «gold rush»

### Examples

- There are 12 miners in the mine. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/miner/#x1)
- Each miner digs 3 tons of coal a day. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/miner/#x2)
- A miner found 8 gold nuggets. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/miner/#x3)
- The miners shared the gold equally. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/miner/#x4)
- Miners wear helmets with lamps on them. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/miner/#x5)
- During the gold rush, many miners came to the river. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/miner/#x6)
- The canary warned the miners about bad air. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/miner/#x7)
- The miner pushed the cart out of the tunnel. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/miner/#x8)

### Note

A thing counted (people) or the one who acts. «Each miner» with an amount gives a rate, total = rate × miners. Trap: do not mix up miner (a digger) and minor (small, or a child under the law).

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «miner» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/miner/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«miner» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/miner.html) on Mova free.