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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
orë
orë
Albanian
Noun
orë f (indefinite plural orë, definite singular ora, definite plural orët)
Declension
declension of orë
| indefinite forms (trajta të pashquara) |
definite forms (trajta të shquara) |
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| singular (numri njëjës) |
plural (numri shumës) |
singular (numri njëjës) |
plural (numri shumës) |
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| nominative (emërore) |
orë | orë | ora | orët | |
| accusative (kallëzore) |
orë | orë | orën | orët | |
| genitive (gjinore) (i/e/të/së) |
ore | orëve | orës | orëve | |
| dative (dhanore) |
ore | orëve | orës | orëve | |
| ablative (rrjedhore) |
ore | orësh | orës | orëve | |
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Etymology 2
From Proto-Indo-European *er-, *or- 'to move, stir, animate, fight, struggle, rise; to spring up, be born'. Cognate to Ancient Greek ὄρνῡμι (órnūmi, “urge on, incite, make to arise, call forth, move, stir oneself”), Latin orior (“to rise; to spring up, be born”), Old Norse iara (“fight”).
Noun
orë f