Miner vs. Miser
Difference Between Miner and Miser
Miner➦
A miner is a person who extracts ore, coal, chalk, clay, or other minerals from the earth through mining. There are two senses in which the term is used.
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Miser➦
A miser is a person who is reluctant to spend, sometimes to the point of forgoing even basic comforts and some necessities, in order to hoard money or other possessions. Although the word is sometimes used loosely to characterise anyone who is mean with their money, if such behaviour is not accompanied by taking delight in what is saved, it is not properly miserly.
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Miner➦
a person who works in a mine
he worked as a miner at Wearmouth Colliery for 27 years
the miners were freed after spending four days trapped underground
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Miser➦
One who lives very meagerly in order to hoard money.
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Miner➦
a person who dug tunnels in order to destroy an enemy position with explosives.
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Miser➦
A greedy or avaricious person.
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Miner➦
a small South American bird of the ovenbird family, which excavates a long burrow for breeding.
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Miser➦
(pejorative) A person who hoards money rather than spending it; one who is cheap or extremely parsimonious.
Ebenezer Scrooge was a stereotypical miser: he spent nothing he could save, neither giving to charity nor enjoying his wealth.
Mr. Krabs, Plankton, Dr. Eggman, Mr. Burns, Bugsy Siegel, Benny Goodman, Katharine Hepburn, and Howard Hughes were all famous examples of misers.
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Miner➦
short for leaf miner
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Miser➦
A kind of earth auger, typically large-bored and often hand-operated.
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Miner➦
an Australian bird of the honeyeater family, having a loud call.
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Miser➦
A wretched person; a person afflicted by any great misfortune.
The woeful words of a miser now despairing.
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Miner➦
One whose work or business it is to extract ore or minerals from the earth.
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Miser➦
A despicable person; a wretch.
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Miner➦
A machine for the automatic extraction of minerals, especially of coal.
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Miser➦
A covetous, grasping, mean person; esp., one having wealth, who lives miserably for the sake of saving and increasing his hoard.
As some lone miser, visiting his store,Bends at his treasure, counts, recounts it o'er.
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Miner➦
A soldier, often a specialist, engaged in mining operations.
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Miser➦
A stingy person; one very reluctant to spend money.
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Miner➦
(Zoology) A leaf miner.
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Miser➦
A kind of large earth auger.
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Miner➦
A person who works in a mine.
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Miser➦
a stingy hoarder of money and possessions (often living miserably)
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Miner➦
An operator of ordnance mines and similar explosives.
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Miner➦
Any bird of one of four species of Australian endemic honeyeaters in the genus Manorina.
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Miner➦
Any bird of one of several species of South American ovenbirds in the genus Geositta.
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Miner➦
(cryptocurrency) Software or hardware that mines, or creates new units of cryptocurrency; someone engaged in mining.
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Miner➦
One who mines; a digger for metals, etc.; one engaged in the business of getting ore, coal, or precious stones, out of the earth; one who digs military mines; as, armies have sappers and miners.
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Miner➦
Any of numerous insects which, in the larval state, excavate galleries in the parenchyma of leaves. They are mostly minute moths and dipterous flies.
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Miner➦
laborer who works in a mine
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