| 单词 | ore |
| 释义 | ore (once / 459 pages) 1n 2n 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. WORD FAMILYore: ores USAGE EXAMPLESDuring the month of January, Mr. Ore is a Canada Dry kind of guy. New York Times(Dec 31, 2016) It also includes 1 million acres rich in uranium ore where new mining claims are banned through 2032. Washington Times(Dec 30, 2016) He then fled to Eugene, Ore., intending to steal his twin brother’s identity, before deciding to return to Bellingham and surrender. Seattle Times(Dec 26, 2016) 1 n a mineral that contains metal that is valuable enough to be mined 2Hypo|Hyper concentrate, dressed ore the desired mineral that is left after impurities have been removed from mined ore iron orean ore from which iron can be extracted lead oreore containing lead pay dirtore that yields a substantial profit to the miner uranium oreany ore from which uranium can be extracted carnotitea yellow radioactive mineral; an ore of uranium and radium and vanadium goethite, gothitea red or yellow or brown mineral; an oxide of iron that is a common constituent of rust chamositea greenish grey or black silicate of iron and aluminum taconitea variety of chert containing magnetite and hematite; mined as a low-grade iron ore haematite, hematitethe principal form of iron ore; consists of ferric oxide in crystalline form; occurs in a red earthy form massicot, massicotitethe mineral form of lead monoxide; in the form of yellow powder it is used as a pigment lepidocrocitea red to reddish brown mineral consisting of iron oxide hydroxide; often found in iron ores together with goethite limonitea widely occurring iron oxide ore; a mixture of goethite and hematite and lepidocrocite magnetic iron-ore, magnetitean oxide of iron that is strongly attracted by magnets raddle, reddle, ruddlea red iron ore used in dyeing and marking chalybite, sideriteiron ore in the form of ferrous carbonate pitchblende, 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 ore mineral solid homogeneous inorganic substances occurring in nature having a definite chemical composition n a monetary subunit in Denmark and Norway and Sweden; 100 ore equal 1 krona Hyper fractional monetary unit, subunit a monetary unit that is valued at a fraction (usually one hundredth) of the basic monetary unit |
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