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ore

  [awr, ohr]
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–noun
1. a metal-bearing mineral or rock, or a native metal, that can be mined at a profit.
2. a mineral or natural product serving as a source of some nonmetallic substance, as sulfur.
Origin:
bef. 900; conflation of ME ore, OE ōra ore, unreduced metal; and ME or(e) ore, metal, OE ār brass, c. OS, OHG ēr, ON eir, Goth aiz; cf. L aes bronze, coin, money

ö⋅re

  [œ-ruh]
–noun, plural ö⋅re.
1. a bronze coin of Norway, the 100th part of a krone.
2. a zinc or bronze coin of Denmark, the 100th part of a krone.
3. a bronze coin of Sweden, the 100th part of a krona.
4. a fractional currency of the Faeroe Islands, the 100th part of a krona.
Also, ø⋅re [œ-ruh] (for defs. 1, 2).

Origin:
1600–10; < < L aureus a gold coin

Ore.

 
Oregon.
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ore   (ôr, ōr)   
n.  A mineral or an aggregate of minerals from which a valuable constituent, especially a metal, can be profitably mined or extracted.

[Middle English, from Old English ōra and from Old English ār, brass, copper, bronze.]
ö·re   (ɶ'rə)   
n.  See Table at currency.

[Swedish, from Old Norse eyrir, from Latin aureus, gold coin, from aurum, gold.]
ø·re   (ɶ'rə)   
n.  See Table at currency.

[Danish and Norwegian, both from Old Norse eyrir; see öre.]
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Ore

Ore\ ([=o]r), n. [AS. [=a]r.] Honor; grace; favor; mercy; clemency; happy augry. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

Ore

Ore\, n. [AS. [=a]ra; cf. [=a]r brass, bronze, akin to OHG. [=e]r, G. ehern brazen, Icel. eir brass, Goth. ais, L. aes, Skr. ayas iron. [root]210. Cf. Ora, Era.]

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.
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Language Translation for : ore
Spanish: mineral, mena,
German: das Organ,
Japanese: 鉱石
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ore

In geology, a mineral that contains a commercially useful material, such as gold or uranium.

Note: Ore deposits are generally mined, and the ore is processed to recover the material.
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ore 
12c., merger of O.E. ora "ore, unworked metal" (related to ear "earth"); and O.E. ar "brass, copper, bronze," from P.Gmc. *ajiz- (cf. O.N. eir "brass, copper," Ger. ehern "brazen," Goth. aiz "bronze"), from PIE *aus- "gold" (cf. Skt. ayah "metal," Avestan ayo, L. aes "brass"). The two words were not fully assimilated till 17c.; what emerged has the form of ar but the meaning of ora.
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ore   (ôr)  Pronunciation Key 
A naturally occurring mineral or rock from which a valuable or useful substance, especially a metal, can be extracted at a reasonable cost.
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