ore

[awr, ohr] /ɔr, oʊr/
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
before 900; conflation of Middle English ore, Old English ōra ore, unreduced metal; and Middle English or(e) ore, metal, Old English ār brass, cognate with Old Saxon, Old High German ēr, Old Norse eir, Gothic aiz; compare Latin aes bronze, coin, money
Can be confused
oar, o'er, or, ore.

öre

[œ-ruh] /ˈœ rə/
noun, plural öre.
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, øre [œ-ruh] /ˈœ rə/ (Show IPA), (for defs 1, 2).
Origin
1600-10; ≪ Latin aureus a gold coin

Ore.

1.
Oregon.
Examples from the web for ore
  • Big government-owned steel makers used their import licenses to buy more iron ore than they needed.
  • Congested railways and ports have also been a problem, especially for coal and iron ore.
  • The rest emits as much radiation as high grade ore in around a thousand years.
  • For more than a century, workers pulled ore from the ground here.
  • The companies have spent the past six years working to secure permits to begin mining the ore.
  • Acid leaching of ores in ground ore bodies is worse.
  • Many ore deposits are formed from submarine volcanoes.
  • He gathered the deposits and smelted the iron ore himself.
  • Iron ore and coal often are found in plateau outliers.
  • The limited supply of uranium ore could pose a problem too.
British Dictionary definitions for ore

ore

/ɔː/
noun
1.
any naturally occurring mineral or aggregate of minerals from which economically important constituents, esp metals, can be extracted
Word Origin
Old English ār, ōra; related to Gothic aiz, Latin aes, Dutch oer

öre

/ˈørə/
noun (pl) öre
1.
a Scandinavian monetary unit worth one hundredth of a Swedish krona and (øre) one hundredth of a Danish and Norwegian krone
Word Origin and History for ore
n.

12c., merger of Old English ora "ore, unworked metal" (related to ear "earth," 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- (cf. Old Norse eir "brass, copper," German ehern "brazen," Gothic aiz "bronze"), from PIE *aus- "gold" (see aureate). The two words were not fully assimilated till 17c.; what emerged has the form of ar but the meaning of ora.

ore in Science
ore
  (ôr)   
A naturally occurring mineral or rock from which a valuable or useful substance, especially a metal, can be extracted at a reasonable cost.
ore in Culture

ore definition


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.
Related Abbreviations for ore

Ore.

Oregon