See also oré, orë, öre, and øre

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English

Etymology

Old English ār / āra (“‘unwrought metal’”). MORPHOLOGY: (The O.E. word,āra, dropped the initial ā-sound, and the remainder, -ra, evolved into a word whose sound [in its past participle form with "-ed"] approached the modern English, "ROT."

Due to the fact that weapons and shallow-hulled water-craft were integral for antiquated, Germanic tribes (Jutes, Angles, Saxons, ...) to defend, and further expand, their territories. Metals also enabled thse tribes to fashion banding and structural reinforcements for their river-penetrating boats, as well as fish hooks, whose designs are unique to each tribe, and thereby enable archaeologists to assign probable, tribal affiliations. Each of these tribes were cognately-named (i.e., ANGLES < "angle [of hook]" + JUTES < "jut (the 'pointing out'...) [of hook]" + SAXONS < Olde English: seax "[sword]."

As of recent times, usage within geologic and -- more saliently -- economic senses, an "ore" is a rock whose intrinsic mineral, or element-al, composition would yield a monetary, or material, value that would exceed those costs accumulated by its evaluation and testing, extraction, and subsequent processing.

Pronunciation

Noun

Singular ore

Plural countable and uncountable; plural ores

ore (countable and uncountable; plural ores)

  1. Rock that contains utilitarian materials; primarily a rock containing metals or gems which -- at the time of the rock's evaluation and proposal for extraction -- are able to be separated from its neighboring minerals and processed at a cost that does not exceed those materials' present-day economic values.

See also

Afrikaans

Noun

ore

  1. Plural form of oor.

Basque

Noun

ore

  1. dough

Galician

Verb

ore

  1. first-person singular present subjunctive of orar.
  2. third-person singular present subjunctive of orar.

Guaraní

Pronoun

ore

  1. us
  2. our

Italian

Noun

ore

  1. Plural form of ora. (hours)

Latin

Noun

ōre (n)

  1. ablative singular of ōs

Romanian

Noun

ore f. pl.

  1. Plural form of oră. hours

 

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