[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/miner.html)

[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [dictionaries](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/) / [The school dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/) / miner

[← M](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/M/)

# miner

«miner» in Mova's school dictionary: **a person who digs under the ground to get coal, gold…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (miner, miners)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A miner is a person who digs under the ground to get coal, gold, metal or stones. [tree →](https://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/miner/#m2)

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

### In the corpora

- [A sieve lets fine flour through and keeps lumps; long ago gold miners used pans and sieves to wash gold from river gravel.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/8-separating-mixtures/6/)
- [But the story of gems and metals also has a dark side: slaves, forced miners and wars paid for with stones.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/51-gemstones-and-precious-metals/8/)
- [Coal mining was dangerous: explosions, roof falls and lung disease killed many miners.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/59-coal-oil-and-gas/12/)
- [Metal rivets on jeans were patented (registered as an invention) in 1873 to stop pockets tearing on miners' work trousers.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/5-clothes-t-shirts-jeans-and-trainers/8/)
- [Tunnel-boring machines are often given women's names, from an old tradition linked to Saint Barbara, the saint of miners.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/29-tunnels-and-under-the-street/8/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «miner» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/miner/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.