What's the difference between diner and miner?

Diner


Definition:

  • (n.) One who dines.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In the interim, Phil cut the solo albums Star Spangled Springer (1973), Phil's Diner (1974) and Mystic Line (1975), and appeared on Roy Wood's album Mustard and on Zevon's debut album in 1976.
  • (2) "I have a gas stove, so with a little bit of a flame the gas worked, and we are, we had dinner, we had our coffee, so we were ok." Adam Gabbatt Horizon Diner in Manahawkin, west of Long Beach Island, serving customers displaced by Sandy.
  • (3) Shark finning, to serve Chinese diners, has also been a scourge.
  • (4) James Franco plays a small-town teacher who walks through a temporal portal in the back of a diner that whisks him from the present day and deposits him in the early-60s, where he makes it his mission to stop Lee Harvey Oswald pulling the trigger.
  • (5) The types were labeled: "finicky eaters," "health-conscious dieters," "diverse diners," and "high-calorie traditionalists."
  • (6) They did, however, let the dog diner sit on the banquette to eat his lunch – quite possibly a first – and swiftly perked up when the owner came out to greet him.
  • (7) He told the story on Tuesday how he had tried to sneak into a Cleveland restaurant for dinner, but found instead a crowd of diners cheering him on.
  • (8) Pictures of the president are everywhere – barbershops, diners, nail salons and bodegas.
  • (9) He often was to be seen at the Metro Diner on Broadway at 100th Street.
  • (10) Diners at the Laconda restaurant were enjoying their meals when the gang tried to break the reinforced windows.
  • (11) Apps like PayPal, Prezzo or Tab allow diners in restaurants to see what they’ve ordered, find out how much the bill comes to and pay it on their mobile at the table.
  • (12) As we puff our napkins I ask him what effect she had on other diners when she ate here.
  • (13) It's a slightly different approach than Rio's ubiquitous "kilo" joints, where diners fill up their plates and pay by weight.
  • (14) We’re seeing restaurants push the boundaries and, for the first time, PE is experiencing a foodie culture of food trucks, pop-up diners and local markets, such as the monthly Valley Market : an alfresco celebration of food, artisanal crafts and a great place to meet genuine PE people.
  • (15) JJ Route 100, Vermont All your picture-postcard impressions of rural New England – village greens, white-steepled wooden church spires and roadside diners – can be enjoyed along Vermont's Route 100, which runs the length of the Green Mountains.
  • (16) • Four locations, Downtown diner at 825 North First Street, mattsbigbreakfast.com .
  • (17) I get to walk to Pete’s Diner and back, by myself.” Ryan discussed moving into an office formerly used by Boehner, who smokes cigarettes.
  • (18) Guzmán went underground as Mexico descended into the abyss, boasting that he paid out $5m a month to corrupt officials, and making sudden, brazen appearances such as that in May 2005 at a restaurant in Nuevo Laredo, his enemy’s doorstep, when 40 diners found the doors suddenly locked by his gunmen to be told: “Don’t be alarmed, order whatever you want, and we’ll pay.” Another of his banquets in Mexico City was raided by the army – but too late, finding only four hapless members of the band paid to entertain Guzmán, who were arrested for possession of firearms.
  • (19) In one video, the attackers – named by Palestinian media as Muhammad and Khalid Muhamra – can be seeing sitting in dark suits and white shirts at a table in the popular Max Brenner restaurant, where they had reportedly ordered drinks and chocolate brownies, before standing up suddenly and firing at close range at fellow diners.
  • (20) Across from my hotel, the Fun City complex contained an imitation midway, a bowling alley, a couple of bars, a replica diner and, tucked in between a hotel and a spa, the Catfish Bend Casino.

Miner


Definition:

  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) Any of numerous insects which, in the larval state, excavate galleries in the parenchyma of leaves. They are mostly minute moths and dipterous flies.
  • (n.) The chattering, or garrulous, honey eater of Australia (Myzantha garrula).

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It is suggested that the Japanese may have lower trabecular bone mineral density than Caucasians but may also have a lower threshold for fracture of the vertebrae.
  • (2) The absorption of ingested Pb is modified by its chemical and physical form, by interaction with dietary minerals and lipids and by the nutritional status of the individual.
  • (3) There will be no statutory inquiry or independent review into the notorious clash between police and miners at Orgreave on 18 June 1984 , the home secretary, Amber Rudd, has announced.
  • (4) There was however no difference in the cross-sectional studies and no significant deleterious effect detected of tobacco use on forearm bone mineral content.
  • (5) From these results, it was suggested that the inhibitory effect of Cd on in vitro calcification of MC3T3-E1 cells may be due to both a depression of cell-mediated calcification and a decrease in physiochemical mineral deposition.
  • (6) The effect of dietary fibre digestion in the human gut on its ability to alter bowel habit and impair mineral absorption has been investigated using the technique of metablic balance.
  • (7) The greatest advantages of spinal QCT for noninvasive bone mineral measurement lie in the high precision of the technique, the high sensitivity of the vertebral trabecular measurement site, and the potential for widespread application.
  • (8) The model has been used to evaluate mineral changes from the use of fluoride dentifrices and rinses, chewing gum, and food sequencing.
  • (9) These data indicate improved bone mineralization as compared with previously reported data from very-low-birth-weight neonates.
  • (10) Gladstone's speech was not made in Parliament, but to a crowd of landless agricultural workers and miners in Scotland's central belt, Gove pointed out.
  • (11) Artificially produced mineral waters which are identical to natural ones are also applied.
  • (12) The method of mineral estimation using phalanges is described and its reproducibility was tested on 17 parameters.
  • (13) Secondary structural features of bovine amelogenin, a hydrophobic protein of developing enamel implicated in ename mineralization, are derived using 2D NMR spectroscopy in solution and molecular mechanics-dynamics studies.
  • (14) Reduced mineral absorption is fairly well documented and has sound theoretical support from basic chemistry.
  • (15) Microbiological analyses of sediments located near a point source for petrogenic chemicals resulted in the isolation of a pyrene-mineralizing bacterium.
  • (16) Years of education completed and poverty status did not significantly affect folate concentrations; however, the prevalence of low folate concentrations among users of vitamin or mineral supplements was significantly lower than it was among nonusers in selected subgroups.
  • (17) Unsupplemented human breast milk may not provide sufficient calcium and phosphorus for the rapidly growing preterm infant to match the accumulation that should have taken place in utero and to permit normal bone mineralization.
  • (18) In some areas of the ligament, extracellular plasma membrane-invested matrix vesicles and thick wall-bound matrix giant bodies with or without mineralized deposits were present.
  • (19) My grandfather was a coal miner and Nana was rather plump and bossy.
  • (20) These diets were: diet C consisting of commercial Rat Chow: diet CG, the same diet diluted with 70% glucose calories, diet A, a simulated "American" diet made up of 25 widely used foods, diet AS, the same diet supplemented with small amounts of 25 vitamins and minerals.