Definitions for Ore

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Ore ore

Spelling: [awr, ohr]

IPA: /ɔr, oʊr/

Ore is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 3 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 3 points.

You can make 11 anagrams from letters in Ore (eor).

Definitions for Ore

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.
3. a bronze coin of Norway, the 100th part of a krone.
4. a zinc or bronze coin of Denmark, the 100th part of a krone.
5. a bronze coin of Sweden, the 100th part of a krona.
6. a fractional currency of the Faeroe Islands, the 100th part of a krona.

Origin of Ore

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

Examples for Ore

In China, for example, tungsten, tantalum, tin and gold are mined and ore is imported from other countries.

I say that it's a most astonishing thing if the ore suddenly stops there.

But this little they must have, and it seems that the supply of ore was failing.

Goldfields in Nevada that had been neglected because the ore was just too expensive to extract were now attractive properties.

The Foreign Ministry makes clear that its focus is not only (ore even primarily) seeking justice for Jews from Arab countries.

But with ore prices up nearly 50 percent in value over the last 12 months, gold fever has swept the rainforest again.

The veins of this ore in Tuscarawas are from five to fifteen feet thick.

With it went a sample of the ore and the bullet that had killed Pete.

Then when all had been approved the test lot of ore was run.

By way of answer I explained that I knew the source of the ore but not the route of its coming.