ore
pronunciation
How to pronounce ore in British English:
UK [ɔː(r)]
How to pronounce ore in American English:
US [ɔːr]
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- Noun:
- a metal-bearing mineral valuable enough to be mined
- a monetary subunit in Denmark and Norway and Sweden; 100 ore equal 1 krona
Word Origin
- ore
- ore: see era
- ore (n.)
- 12c., a merger of Old English ora "ore, unworked metal" (related to eorþe "earth," see earth; and cognate with Low German ur "iron-containing ore," Dutch oer, Old Norse aurr "gravel"); and Old English ar "brass, copper, bronze," from Proto-Germanic *ajiz- (cognates: Old Norse eir "brass, copper," German ehern "brazen," Gothic aiz "bronze"), from PIE root *aus- (2) "gold" (see aureate). The two words were not fully assimilated till 17c.; what emerged has the form of ar but the meaning of ora.
Example
- 1. Occasionally he uses it to process uranium ore into yellowcake .
- 2. Gold miners are not . Many produce copper , too , since it often sits in the same ore bodies as gold .
- 3. In addition to imports from both of those , it also buys ore on the international market .
- 4. As older mines get deeper , ore grades decline and extraction becomes more expensive .
- 5. Its state-owned companies often sell oil and ore on spot markets .