ore
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- United Kingdom//ɔː//
- United States//oɹ//
- //o(ː)ɹ//
- //oə//
Rock or other material that contains valuable or utilitarian materials; primarily a rock containing metals or gems for which it is typically mined and processed.
noun
- 1
Rock or other material that contains valuable or utilitarian materials; primarily a rock containing metals or gems for which it is typically mined and processed.
They generally occur in the earth in what are called veins, and are seldom found in the pure metallic state, but generally in combination with some other substance, in which state they are called ores.
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.
Stepnohirsk grew into a town from the village of Sukhoivanivka in the 1980s after vast deposits of manganese ore nearby were discovered.
Etymology
From Middle English or, oor, blend of Old English ōra (“ore, unwrought metal”) and ār (“brass, copper, bronze”), the first a derivate of ear (“earth”), the second from Proto-West Germanic *aiʀ, from Proto-Germanic *aiz, from Proto-Indo-European *áyos, h₂éyos. Compare Old Norse eir (“brass, copper”), German ehern (“of metal, of iron”), Gothic 𐌰𐌹𐌶 (aiz, “ore”); also Dutch oer (“ferrous hardpan; bog iron ore”). Compare Latin aes (“bronze, copper”), Avestan 𐬀𐬌𐬌𐬀𐬵 (aiiah), Sanskrit अयस् (áyas, “copper, iron”).
noun
- 1
A unit of currency used in England around the 10th to 12th centuries.
In the time of Æthelred the Unready when the pound contained 240 pence, the ore was reckoned at 16 pence, but in earlier times there was probably much variation.
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin ora.
noun
- 1
archaicSeaweed, especially that which is washed up ashore.
Etymology
A southern variant of ware (“seaweed”).
noun
- 1
historicalA type of fine wool, especially of the type historically produced in the market town of Leominster, Herefordshire.
But then the ore of Lempſter / By Got is never a Sempſter; / That when he is ſpun, ore did, / Yet match him with hir thrid
Etymology
Possibly originating as a figurative use of Etymology 1, with Leominster's "ore" representing the wealth of the town.
preposition
- 1
Variant of overobsoleteObsolete form of over.
When I behold the violet paſt prime, / And ſable curls or ſiluer'd ore with white: […]
noun
- 1
Variant of öreAlternative form of öre.
Forms
- plural
- ores
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