ore

«ore» in Mova's school dictionary: rock or earth that has a useful metal in it, like iron or… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (ore, ores)

meaning for a pupil

Ore is rock or earth that has a useful metal in it, like iron or copper, which people dig up and take the metal out of. tree →

sense in the lessons

Used in science and history lessons about rocks, mining and materials: iron ore is heated in a furnace to make iron. In geography: countries that mine ore. Phrases: "iron ore", "copper ore", "gold ore".

examples

• Iron ore is dug out of the ground. tree →
• The miners loaded the ore into carts. tree →
• Australia sends a lot of iron ore to other countries. tree →
• The ore is heated to get the metal out. tree →
• This rock is ore because it has copper in it. tree →
• Trains carry ore from the mine to the port. tree →

note

Usually uncountable (some ore), but "ores" is used for different kinds. Homophones: "oar" (for rowing a boat) and "or" (this or that) sound the same in many accents.

In the corpora

• Recycling metals uses far less energy than mining new ore.
• Metals usually come from ores, rocks containing enough metal to be worth mining.
• Smelting heats ore with fuel such as charcoal or coke (a fuel made from coal) to free the metal.
• Recycling metals uses much less energy than mining new ore, and aluminium can be recycled again and again.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «ore» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.