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Webster 1913 Edition
Ore
Ore
(ōr)
, Noun.
[AS.
ār
.] Honor; grace; favor; mercy; clemency; happy augury.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.
Ore
,Noun.
1.
The native form of a metal, whether free and uncombined, as gold, copper, etc., or combined, as iron, lead, etc. Usually the ores contain the metals combined with oxygen, sulphur, arsenic, etc. (called mineralizers).
2.
(Mining)
A native metal or its compound with the rock in which it occurs, after it has been picked over to throw out what is worthless.
3.
Metal;
as, the liquid
. ore
[R.]
Milton.
Ore hearth
, a low furnace in which rich lead ore is reduced; – also called
Scotch hearth
. Raymond.
Webster 1828 Edition
Ore
ORE
,Noun.
1.
The compound of a metal and some other substance, as oxygen, sulphur or carbon, called its mineralizer, by which its properties are disguised or lost. Metals found free from such combination and exhibiting naturally their appropriate character, are not called ores, but native metals.2.
Metal; as the liquid ore.Definition 2024
Ore
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English
Noun
ore (countable and uncountable, plural ores)
- Rock that contains utilitarian materials; primarily a rock containing metals or gems which—at the time of the rock's evaluation and proposal for extraction—are able to be separated from its neighboring minerals and processed at a cost that does not exceed those materials' present-day economic values.
- 2014 April 21, “Subtle effects”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8884:
- Manganism has been known about since the 19th century, when miners exposed to ores containing manganese, a silvery metal, began to totter, slur their speech and behave like someone inebriated.
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Translations
rock that contains materials that can be economically extracted and processed
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Anagrams
Galician
Verb
ore
Guaraní
Pronoun
ore
See also
Guaraní personal pronouns
Latin
Noun
ōre (n)
- ablative singular of ōs
References
- ore in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
Middle Dutch
Etymology
From Old Dutch ōra, from Proto-Germanic *ausô.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈoːrə/
Noun
ôre n
Descendants
- Dutch: oor
Middle French
Etymology
Adverb
ore
- now
- 15th century, Rustichello da Pisa (original author), Mazarine Master (scribe), The Travels of Marco Polo, page 4, line 2:
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des choses lesquelles nous ne conterons pas ore
- of things we will not speak of now
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des choses lesquelles nous ne conterons pas ore
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Descendants
- French: or
Middle High German
Etymology
From Old High German ōra, from Proto-Germanic *ausô.
Noun
ore n
Descendants
- German: Ohr
Middle Low German
Pronunciation
- Stem vowel: ô²
- (originally) IPA(key): /ɔːrə/
Etymology
From Old Saxon ōra, from Proto-Germanic *ausô.
Noun
ôre n
Old French
Etymology 1
Alternative forms
Adverb
ore
Descendants
- French: or (archaic)
Etymology 2
From Ancient Greek ὥρα (hṓra), from Latin hōra
Alternative forms
Noun
ore f (oblique plural ores, nominative singular ore, nominative plural ores)
- hour; time, period of the day (period of time)
- circa 1170, Chrétien de Troyes, Érec et Énide:
- quel haste avez,
Qui a tel ore vos levez?- What haste do you have
- That wakes up at this time of day?
- quel haste avez,
- circa 1170, Chrétien de Troyes, Érec et Énide:
Descendants
- English: hour
- French: heure
- Norman: heure, houre (continental Norman), heuthe (Jersey), haeure (Guernsey)
Portuguese
Verb
ore
- First-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of orar
- Third-person singular (ele, ela, also used with tu and você?) present subjunctive of orar
- Third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of orar
- Third-person singular (você) negative imperative of orar
Spanish
Verb
ore
- Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of orar.
- First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of orar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of orar.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of orar.