ore - Dictionary Definition : Vocabulary.com

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.

PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: ore

1	n	a mineral that contains metal that is valuable enough to be mined
2	n	a monetary subunit in Denmark and Norway and Sweden; 100 ore equal 1 krona

FULL DEFINITIONS OF: ore

1

n a mineral that contains metal that is valuable enough to be mined

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the desired mineral that is left after impurities have been removed from mined ore; iron ore
an ore from which iron can be extracted; lead ore
ore containing lead; pay dirt
ore that yields a substantial profit to the miner; uranium ore
any ore from which uranium can be extracted; carnotite
a yellow radioactive mineral; an ore of uranium and radium and vanadium; goethite, gothite
a red or yellow or brown mineral; an oxide of iron that is a common constituent of rust; chamosite
a greenish grey or black silicate of iron and aluminum; taconite
a variety of chert containing magnetite and hematite; mined as a low-grade iron ore; haematite, hematite
the principal form of iron ore; consists of ferric oxide in crystalline form; occurs in a red earthy form; massicot, massicotite
the mineral form of lead monoxide; in the form of yellow powder it is used as a pigment; lepidocrocite
a red to reddish brown mineral consisting of iron oxide hydroxide; often found in iron ores together with goethite; limonite
a widely occurring iron oxide ore; a mixture of goethite and hematite and lepidocrocite; magnetic iron-ore, magnetite
an oxide of iron that is strongly attracted by magnets; raddle, reddle, ruddle
a red iron ore used in dyeing and marking; chalybite, siderite
iron ore in the form of ferrous carbonate; pitchblende, uraninite
a 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 ore

Type of:: mineral
solid homogeneous inorganic substances occurring in nature having a definite chemical composition

2

n a monetary subunit in Denmark and Norway and Sweden; 100 ore equal 1 krona

Type of:: fractional monetary unit, subunit
a monetary unit that is valued at a fraction (usually one hundredth) of the basic monetary unit