ore — English Dictionary

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.

   Usage

   • Countable
   • Uncountable

   Examples

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   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.

Noun

1. A unit of currency used in England around the 10th to 12th centuries.

   Synonyms

   ora

   Examples

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   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.

Noun

1. Seaweed, especially that which is washed up ashore.

   Usage

   • Archaic
   • dialectal
   • Uncountable

Noun

1. A type of fine wool, especially of the type historically produced in the market town of Leominster, Herefordshire.

   Usage

   • Historical
   • Uncountable

   Examples

   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

Noun

1. a mineral that contains metal that is valuable enough to be mined

   Broader terms

   mineral

2. a monetary subunit in Denmark and Norway and Sweden; 100 ore equal 1 krona

   Broader terms

   fractional monetary unitsubunit