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Definition: Miner |
MinerNoun1. Laborer who works in a mine. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "miner" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
Etymology: Miner \Min"er\, noun. [Compare to the French expression mineur.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Mining | A. In anthracite and bituminous coal mining, one who performs the complete set of duties involved in driving underground openings to extract coal, slate, and rock, with a hand or machine drill, into which explosives are charged and set off to break up the mass. Also called coal digger; coal getter; coal hewer; digger; faceman b. In nonmetal mining, such as limestone, one who drills holes in working face of a limestone mine, and inserts and sets off charges of explosives in holes. May be designated as development miner when working in new areas to drive drifts, shafts, sumps, and entry areas into stopes; high-raise miner when working in vertical areas to gain access into new development areas; or stope miner when working in horizontal openings in limestone strata. Syn:stope miner c. In mining, one who performs the complete set of duties involved in driving underground openings to extract ore or rock: drills holes in working face of ore or rock, with a hand or machine drill; inserts explosives in drill holes and sets them off to break up the mass; shovels ore or rock into mine cars or onto a conveyor, and pushes mine cars to haulageways, where they are hauled by draft animals, mine locomotive (motor), or haulage cable to the surface, or to the shaft bottom for hoisting; and installs timbering to support the walls and roof, or for chutes or staging. Due to standardization of mining methods and development of mining machinery, these jobs may be performed by several workers. Where conditions are favorable, loading is done by machine d. One who mines; such as (1) a person engaged in the business or occupation of getting ore, coal, precious substances, or other natural substances out of the earth; (2) a machine for automatic mining (as of coal); and (3) a worker on the construction of underground tunnels and shafts (as for roads, railways, waterways) e. A worker in a coal mine who is paid a certain price for each ton of coal he or she digs or blasts from the solid seam, as distinguished from the laborer who loads the cars, etc. The miner's helpers load the coal; they are also called laborers f. Includes all laborers who work in a mine, whether digging coal, timbering, or making places safe g. Loosely used to designate all underground employees; technically, and in many cases legally, only those who have served an apprenticeship as helpers or those who are State licensed as miners h. A worker who cuts coal in a breast or chamber by contract; the highest-skilled worker of a colliery i. One who mines; a digger for metals and other minerals; is not necessarily a mechanic, handcraftsman, or artisan, and the term imports neither learning nor skill. (references) |
Occupations | Drills and blasts earth and rock excavations to construct underground shafts and tunnels for projects, such as roads, railways, and waterways: Sets up pneumatic drilling machinery and moves lever controlling drilling action to drill blastholes in $T3tunnel heading$T1 according to spacing, angle, and depth of hole specified by SUPERVISOR, TUNNEL HEADING (construction). Loads blastholes and fires powder charges to loosen earth and rock [BLASTER (any industry)]. Wedges, nails, or bolts timber or steel retaining structures to prevent cave-ins. May work in caissons. When concerned with erection of breast boards (timber bracing) to shore tunnel heading, may be designated Breast Worker (construction). (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Miner is a city located in Missouri. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 1,056.Geography
Miner is located at 36°53'31" North, 89°32'9" West (36.892082, -89.535861)1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 10.6 km² (4.1 mi²). None of the area is covered with water.Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there are 1,056 people, 408 households, and 290 families residing in the city. The population density is 99.4/km² (257.5/mi²). There are 442 housing units at an average density of 41.6/km² (107.8/mi²). The racial makeup of the city is 92.90% White, 2.18% African American, 0.57% Native American, 0.95% Asian, 0.28% Pacific Islander, 1.14% from other races, and 1.99% from two or more races. 2.27% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 408 households out of which 31.9% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 57.4% are married couples living together, 9.6% have a female householder with no husband present, and 28.7% are non-families. 25.2% of all households are made up of individuals and 12.3% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.48 and the average family size is 2.92. In the city the population is spread out with 24.0% under the age of 18, 8.0% from 18 to 24, 26.7% from 25 to 44, 26.0% from 45 to 64, and 15.2% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 38 years. For every 100 females there are 92.0 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 89.4 males. The median income for a household in the city is $30,750, and the median income for a family is $35,132. Males have a median income of $28,611 versus $18,487 for females. The per capita income for the city is $17,409. 18.6% of the population and 16.3% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 21.7% are under the age of 18 and 29.2% are 65 or older.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Miner, Missouri."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Mining is the extraction of valuable minerals from the ground, usually from an ore body or vein.
History
The first mining operation on Earth may have been the turquoise mine operated by the ancient Egyptians at Wady Maghareh on the Sinai Peninsula. Turquoise was also mined in pre-Columbian America in the Cerillos Mining District in New Mexico where a mass of rock 200 feet in depth and 300 feet in width was removed with stone tools; the mine dump covers 20 acres.
Mining techniques
Bioleaching is the application of naturally available bacteria to extract metals from their ore.
- Deep mining
- Drift mining
- Hard rock mining
- Open pit mining
- Quarrying
- Strip mining
- Tunnel mining
- Placer mining, which was important in the recovery of alluvial deposits of gold and continues to be used in the mining of gems in Myanamar and Sri Lanka
See also: Coal mining
Materials commonly recovered by mining
- bauxite (for aluminum)
- coal,
- copper,
- diamonds,
- iron (from the ores haematite and limonite),
- gold,
- nickel,
- salt,
- silver,
- tin,
- uranium.
Further reading
- Hardrock Gold: A Miner's Tale, Tom Morrison, illustrated by Cherry Hunter, University of Oklahoma Press, 1992, hardcover, ISBN 0806124423
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Mining."
Synonym: MinerSynonym: mineworker (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Combatant | Gunner, cannoneer, bombardier, artilleryman, matross; sapper, sapper and miner; engineer; light infantry, rifles,chasseur, zouave; military train, coolie. |
Concavity | Excavator, sapper, miner. |
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Lyrics | I've been a miner for a heart of gold ("Heart of Gold"; performing artist: Neil Young) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Miner (1965) A Miner Affair (1945) Toby the Miner (1930) The Blind Miner (1912) | |
Song Titles | Blackleg Miner (performing artist: Steeleye Span) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | A miner doing some rockhounding. Credit: Lori Cook. |  | Silicosis followed by tuberculosis is the typical story of this miner now pensioned. / WHO p. Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by Jean Mohr.. |
 | Daughter of migrant Tennessee coal miner ... / [P. Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by Dorothea Lange].. |  | Miner Normal--1st grade. Ada Hand, teacher. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | George Kleine presents, The Last Days of Pompeii, a spectacular photo-drama / The H.C. Miner Litho. Co., N.Y. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Miner washing gold. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Miner panning gold. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Miner at gold mine, Mogollon, New Mexico. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Miner at Calumet, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | The Navy needs you! Don't read American history - make it! / James Montgomery Flagg ; The H.C. Miner Litho. Co. N.Y. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Zimchrome" by Kevin Walsh Commentary: "A chrome miner in a small-scale underground mine, the Great Dyke, Zimbabwe." |
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Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | The soil where this dark miner was working had perchance shown indications that encouraged him. |
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| "Miner" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Miner" is used about 366 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 366 | 14,782 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "miner" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Miner | Last name | 9,000 | 1,395 |
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| Country | Name |
| France | Ste Com Eaux Miner Bassin Vichy St-Yorre |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
1. Miner, MO (city, FIPS 48656) |
Expressions using "miner": birch leaf miner ♦ coal miner ♦ diamond miner ♦ gold miner ♦ leaf miner ♦ Miner County ♦ mole miner ♦ ponderosa pine needle miner ♦ strip miner. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "miner": coal-miner, ex-miner. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
fairbanks daily news miner | 334 | manic miner | 23 |
miner | 225 | harold miner | 22 |
rachel miner | 118 | intelligent miner for text | 16 |
auto miner runescape | 107 | continuous miner | 16 |
kingman daily miner | 102 | daily fairbanks miner | 16 |
data miner | 75 | knowledge miner text | 15 |
fairbanks miner news | 70 | soul miner daughter | 15 |
daily miner news | 68 | fairbanks miner | 15 |
media miner | 59 | ibm intelligent miner | 15 |
coal miner daughter | 53 | miner part | 15 |
coal miner | 52 | mat miner su | 14 |
kenora miner news | 42 | kenora daily miner | 14 |
miner northern | 40 | inc miner | 14 |
kenora daily miner and news | 37 | miner lamp | 14 |
auto miner | 34 | eckley miner village | 14 |
opal miner | 33 | miner nude rachel | 13 |
file miner | 32 | miner rocket | 13 |
leaf miner | 30 | coal daughter lyrics miner | 13 |
gold miner | 28 | miner picture | 13 |
miner news | 25 | daily miner | 12 |
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| Language | Translations for "miner"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | minavënës (minelayer), minator (coal miner, Collier, digger). (various references) | |
Arabic | زارع الألغام (mine layer), عامل منجم. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | сапьор (engineer, pioneer), ровещо животно, миньор (holer, mine worker, pitman). (various references) | |
Chinese | 矿工 (mineworker), 礦工 . (various references) | |
Czech | horník (coal miner, Collier, digger). (various references) | |
Danish | grubearbejder. (various references) | |
Dutch | mijnwerker, mijnwerker, mýnwerker, steenhouwer (stone-cutter, stonemason), steenganghouwer (ripper), reparatiestutter (ripper). (various references) | |
Esperanto | ministo. (various references) | |
Finnish | kaivosmies (collier). (various references) | |
French | mineur (minor). (various references) | |
Frisian | mynwurker, mynarbeider. (various references) | |
German | Bergmann (collier, pitman), Kumpel (buddy, chum, cobber, Collier, fellow, mate, Matey, pal, pitman, wack), Bergarbeiter. (various references) | |
Greek | ναρκοθετώ (lay mines, mine), μεταλλωρύχοσ, μεταλλευτήσ (prospector), πιστολαδόρος-ξεσκαρωτής-ξυλοδέτης (ripper), υπονομευτήσ (underminer), ανθρακωρύχος (collier). (various references) | |
Hebrew | כורה (digger). (various references) | |
Hungarian | bányász (cutter, mineworker, pitman), aknász (boss, captain). (various references) | |
Indonesian | buruh tambang. (various references) | |
Italian | minatore (Collier), perforatore in roccia (ripper), armatore di miniera (ripper). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 坑夫 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | こうふ (announcement, delivering, delivery, furnishing, grant, handingto, labourer, official proclamation, tribute and taxation, worker). (various references) | |
Korean | 광부 (mineworker). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | inermay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | mineiro (collier, hewer, mine worker, pitman, tinner). (various references) | |
Romanian | miner (bail, digger, pitman). (various references) | |
Russian | шахтер (coal miner, collier, pitman), горняк (mine worker), горнорабочий. (various references) | |
Scottish | mèinneadair. (various references) | |
Sepedi | moepi. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | miner (sapper), rudar (coal miner, coalman, sinker). (various references) | |
Spanish | minero (Collier, mine worker, pitman). (various references) | |
Swedish | gruvarbetare (Hewer, pitman). (various references) | |
Turkish | mayıncı, madenci (coal miner, Collier, pitman), lâğımcı, delik açan kurtçuk. (various references) | |
Turkmen | юahtяor (r). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | шахтар (pitman), гірник (digger), мінер. (various references) | |
Welsh | mwynwr. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | minutor. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "miner": mineral, mineralise, mineralised, mineralises, mineralising, mineralizable, mineralization, mineralizations, mineralize, mineralized, mineralizer, mineralizers, mineralizes, mineralizing, mineralocorticoid, mineralocorticoids, mineralogic, mineralogical, mineralogically, mineralogies, mineralogist, mineralogists, mineralogy, minerals, miners. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "miner": determiner, examiner, gewurztraminer, predeterminer. (additional references) | |
Words containing "miner": catecholaminergic, demineralization, demineralizations, demineralize, demineralized, demineralizer, demineralizers, demineralizes, demineralizing, determiners, dopaminergic, examiners, gewurztraminers, histaminergic, monoaminergic, predeterminers. (additional references) | |
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"Miner" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: imne, inerr, kiner, mainier, mancer, maner, manera, manere, Manzer, Mcinery, meidner, meinem, meiner, Meisner, Meixner, menar, menear, Menerbi, menuer, Meysner, miaer, micer, mier, miger, Mignard, Mihnea, miker, minar, minceur, minea, minear, Mineiro, minere, Minet, minew, minex, miney, Minheer, Miniere, minior, minne, minnet, Minney, minoe, minora, Minori, minwet, miren, mirer, Misner, mizer, mnie, Monaru, Moncer, Monera, monref, mosner, Muinzer, mujer, Muneeb, munera, Munier, Munir, myer, mynheer, Nimeiri, ominer. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "miner" (pronounced mī"ner) |
| 4 | m ī" n er | minor. |
| 3 | -ī" n er | briner, decliner, designer, diner, finer, liner, recliner, refiner, shiner, signer, Weiner, whiner. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-i-m-n-r" | |
-1 letter: emir, mien, mine, mire, rein, rime. | |
-2 letters: ern, ire, men, mir, nim, rei, rem, rim, rin. | |
-3 letters: em, en, er, in, me, mi, ne, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-i-m-n-r" | |
+1 letter: airmen, ermine, limner, marine, menhir, merino, merlin, mincer, minder, miners, minter, murein, murine, remain, remind, remint, vermin. | |
+2 letters: birdmen, bromine, carmine, ermined, ermines, fermion, fireman, firemen, germina, gremlin, gripmen, harmine, impregn, inarmed, incomer, inhumer, interim, ionomer, kirkmen, kremlin, limners, mangier, manlier, mariner, marines, marline, menhirs, merging, merinos, merlins, metring, minaret, mincers, mincier, minders, mineral, mingier, mingler, miniver, minored, minster, minters, mintier, minuter, moniker, moonier, moraine, mureins, murines, murrine, nimbler, numeric, perming, primine, promine, raiment, ramekin, reaming, regimen, remains, reminds, remints, rhenium, romaine, seminar, terming, termini, unmiter, unmitre, unrimed, vermian, wireman, wiremen. | |
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