Ore
Pronunciation: ōr
| n. | 1. | Honor; grace; favor; mercy; clemency; happy augury. | |||
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| 1. | The native form of a metal, whether free and uncombined, as gold, copper, etc., or combined, as iron, lead, etc. Usually the ores contain the metals combined with oxygen, sulphur, arsenic, etc. (called mineralizers). | ||||
| 2. | (Mining) A native metal or its compound with the rock in which it occurs, after it has been picked over to throw out what is worthless. | ||||
| 3. | Metal;
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| Noun | 1. |  ore - a metal-bearing mineral valuable enough to be mined |
| 2. | ore - a monetary subunit in Denmark and Norway and Sweden; 100 ore equal 1 krona |