ore
Other forms: ores
Ore is a rock that contains minerals like iron, gold, or lead. The seven dwarfs in the movie "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" worked mining ore.
Another meaning of ore is a Swedish unit of money. The krona is made up of 100 ore. In this use, ore is usually spelled with an umlaut over the o — öre. In English, ore is most commonly used to mean a material from which valuable metals or gems can be extracted. In Old English, ora means unwrought metal and ar means bronze. Both root words are thought to have influenced this sense of ore.
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a mineral that contains metal that is valuable enough to be minedtypes:concentrate, dressed orethe desired mineral that is left after impurities have been removed from mined oreiron orean ore from which iron can be extractedlead oreore containing leadpay dirtore that yields a substantial profit to the mineruranium oreany ore from which uranium can be extractedcarnotitea yellow radioactive mineral; an ore of uranium and radium and vanadiumgoethite, gothitea red or yellow or brown mineral; an oxide of iron that is a common constituent of rustchamositea greenish grey or black silicate of iron and aluminumtaconitea variety of chert containing magnetite and hematite; mined as a low-grade iron orehaematite, hematitethe principal form of iron ore; consists of ferric oxide in crystalline form; occurs in a red earthy formmassicot, massicotitethe mineral form of lead monoxide; in the form of yellow powder it is used as a pigmentlepidocrocitea red to reddish brown mineral consisting of iron oxide hydroxide; often found in iron ores together with goethitelimonitea widely occurring iron oxide ore; a mixture of goethite and hematite and lepidocrocitepitchblende, uraninitea mineral consisting of uranium oxide and trace amounts of radium and thorium and polonium and lead and helium; uraninite in massive form is called pitchblende which is the chief uranium oretype of:mineralsolid homogeneous inorganic substances occurring in nature having a definite chemical composition
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a monetary subunit in Denmark and Norway and Sweden; 100 ore equal 1 kronatype of:fractional monetary unit, subunita monetary unit that is valued at a fraction (usually one hundredth) of the basic monetary unit
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