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A lode is a band of rock that holds metal — gold, silver, copper — sitting in a layer between other stone. Miners follow a lode through the ground. Vein is the other everyday word for that band. Though actually lode and load began as the same old English word, about a way or a course. Load went off to mean something you carry. Lode kept a narrower life: mining, an old dialect sense “watercourse,” and the compounds and lodestar. The famous stretch is mother lode: the main rich vein, and then, loosely, a great source of something. In a geography or history text, stay with the metal in the rock.
組成Doublet of load. Continues Old English lād (“way, course, journey”); by the 19th century it survived mainly as a mining term, dialect “watercourse,” and in lodestone and lodestar.
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
lodenoun/ləʊd/
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obsoleteA way or path; a road.
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dialectalA watercourse.
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businessminingA vein of metallic ore that lies within definite boundaries, or within a fissure.
- The metals traditionally sought in the Bristol Bay region have been gold and copper, mostly in deposits near Lake Iliamna. An exception is a gold lode discovered about 1930 near Sleitat Mountain (4), where about $200 in gold was recovered from small quartz veins near the periphery of a small granitic intrusive body.
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A rich source of supply.
- In recent years, Jack Grieve of the department of English and linguistics at the University of Birmingham in England has embraced Twitter as a bountiful lode for looking at language-use patterns.
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