Definition of Ore

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Definition of Ore

Ore

Honor; grace; favor; mercy; clemency; happy augry.

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).

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.

Metal; as, the liquid ore.

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Ore Quotations

Everything has its limit - iron ore cannot be educated into gold.
Mark Twain

When I say artist I mean the man who is building things - creating molding the earth - whether it be the plains of the west - or the iron ore of Penn. It's all a big game of construction - some with a brush - some with a shovel - some choose a pen.
Jackson Pollock

Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
Charles Caleb Colton

Encouraging underground uranium mining on the Colorado Plateau um, the federal government was the only purchaser of uranium ore to try to manufacture uh, atomic bombs.
Tom Udall

We are not in the business of iron ore. Whatever captive iron ore sources we have, we use it to make steel.
Lakshmi Mittal

Ore Translations

ore in French is fini
ore in German is Erz
ore in Italian is minerale
ore in Spanish is mena
ore in Swedish is malm

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