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Ore is rock or earth that has metal in it, enough that people dig it up to get the metal out — iron ore, copper ore, gold ore. Miners look for ore; works heat it to pull the metal free. It is a plain school-and-work word, not a fancy one. Though actually, not every rock with a little metal in it is called ore. People keep the word for rock that is worth working. A pretty stone in your hand is not ore.
礦石
組成From Middle English or, oor, a blend of Old English ōra (unwrought metal), related to ear “earth”, and Old English ār (brass, copper, bronze).
原始詞典資料10 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,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。
Orename
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A suburban area, formerly a village, in Hastings borough, East Sussex, England (OS grid ref TQ8311).
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A river in Suffolk, England, in two sections; a non-tidal section that joins the River Alde, and a tidal section, a renaming of the Alde parallel to the coast south of Aldeburgh, passing Orford before entering the North Sea.
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A tributary of the River Leven, Fife council area, Scotland.
orenoun詞源 1/oɹ/
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Rock or other material that contains valuable or utilitarian materials; primarily a rock containing metals or gems for which it is typically mined and processed.
- They generally occur in the earth in what are called veins, and are seldom found in the pure metallic state, but generally in combination with some other substance, in which state they are called ores.
- Manganism has been known about since the 19th century, when miners exposed to ores containing manganese, a silvery metal, began to totter, slur their speech and behave like someone inebriated.
orenoun詞源 2/oɹ/
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A unit of currency used in England around the 10th to 12th centuries.
- In the time of Æthelred the Unready when the pound contained 240 pence, the ore was reckoned at 16 pence, but in earlier times there was probably much variation.
orenoun詞源 3/oɹ/
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archaicdialectalSeaweed, especially that which is washed up ashore.
orenoun詞源 4/oɹ/
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historicalA type of fine wool, especially of the type historically produced in the market town of Leominster, Herefordshire.
- But then the ore of Lempſter / By Got is never a Sempſter; / That when he is ſpun, ore did, / Yet match him with hir thrid
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。