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 →

2) In old stories miners used picks, lamps and carts in dark tunnels. tree →

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 →
• Each miner digs 3 tons of coal a day. tree →
• A miner found 8 gold nuggets. tree →
• The miners shared the gold equally. tree →
• Miners wear helmets with lamps on them. tree →
• During the gold rush, many miners came to the river. tree →
• The canary warned the miners about bad air. tree →
• The miner pushed the cart out of the tunnel. tree →

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.
• But the story of gems and metals also has a dark side: slaves, forced miners and wars paid for with stones.
• Coal mining was dangerous: explosions, roof falls and lung disease killed many miners.
• Metal rivets on jeans were patented (registered as an invention) in 1873 to stop pockets tearing on miners' work trousers.
• Tunnel-boring machines are often given women's names, from an old tradition linked to Saint Barbara, the saint of miners.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «miner» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.