different between ore vs coltan

English

Etymology

From Middle English or, oor, blend of Old English ?ra (“ore, unwrought metal”) and ?r (“brass, copper, bronze”), the first a derivate of ear (“earth”), the second from Proto-Germanic *aiz (cognates Old Norse eir (“brass, copper”), German ehern (“of metal, of iron”), Gothic ???????????? (aiz, “ore”)), from Proto-Indo-European *áyos, h?éyos. Compare Dutch oer (“ferrous hardpan; bog iron ore”). Compare Latin aes (“bronze, copper”), Avestan ????????????????????? (aiiah), Sanskrit ???? (áyas, “copper, iron”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) enPR: ôr, IPA^(key): /??/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: ?r, IPA^(key): /o(?)?/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /o?/
• Rhymes: -??(?)
• Homophones: oar, o'er; or (in accents with the horse-hoarse merger); aw, awe (in non-rhotic accents with the horse–hoarse merger)

Noun

ore (countable and uncountable, plural ores)

1. 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.

Derived terms

• iron ore
• orefield

Translations

See also

• ore on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• EOR, REO, ROE, Roe, o'er, roe

Afrikaans

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [u????]

Noun

ore

1. plural of oor

Aromanian

Alternative forms

• oarã

Etymology

From Latin h?ra. Compare Romanian oar?.

Noun

ore f (plural or, definite articulation ora)

1. a time, instance

Basque

Noun

ore inan

1. dough

Borôro

Noun

ore

1. child

Galician

Verb

ore

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of orar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of orar

Guaraní

Pronoun

ore

1. us
2. our

See also

Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ore

Noun

ore f

1. plural of ora

Anagrams

• ero, Ero, reo

Japanese

Romanization

ore

1. R?maji transcription of ??

Latin

Noun

?re n

1. ablative singular of ?s

References

• ore in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch ?ra, from Proto-Germanic *ausô.

Noun

ôre n

1. ear

Descendants

• Dutch: oor
  • Afrikaans: oor
• Limburgish: oear

Further reading

• “ore”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “ore (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN, page I

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

ore

1. Alternative form of oure (“aurochs”)

Etymology 2

Determiner

ore

1. Alternative form of oure (“our”)

Etymology 3

Determiner

ore

1. Alternative form of youre

Etymology 4

Determiner

ore

1. (chiefly Early Middle English and West Midlands) Alternative form of here (“their”)

Etymology 5

Noun

ore

1. Alternative form of hore (“muck”)

Middle French

Etymology

Old French ore.

Adverb

ore

1. now

Descendants

• French: or

Middle High German

Etymology

From Old High German ?ra, from Proto-Germanic *ausô.

Noun

ore n

1. ear

Descendants

• Alemannic German: Oor
• Bavarian: Oar
• Central Franconian: Uhr, Ohr
  • Hunsrik: Oher
  • Luxembourgish: Ouer
• German: Ohr
• Rhine Franconian:

  Pennsylvania German: Ohr

• Vilamovian: ür
• Yiddish: ?????? (oyer)

Middle Low German

Etymology

From Old Saxon ?ra, from Proto-Germanic *ausô.

Pronunciation

• Stem vowel: ô²
  • (originally) IPA^(key): /??r?/

Noun

ôre n

1. ear

Descendants

• Low German: Ohr
  • Dutch Low Saxon: oor
  • German Low German: Or, Ur

    Plautdietsch: Oa, Ua

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?o.re/

Noun

ore f

1. A mine, place in which ore is dug

Declension

Derived terms

• ?sern?re (“iron mine”)

Related terms

• ?ra (“ore”)
• gyldenwe?? (“gold mine”)

Old French

Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Alternative forms

• or, ores

Adverb

ore

1. now

Descendants

• French: or (archaic)

Etymology 2

From Latin h?ra, from Ancient Greek ??? (h?ra).

Alternative forms

• hore, eure, heure, eur, heur

Noun

ore f (oblique plural ores, nominative singular ore, nominative plural ores)

1. hour; time, period of the day (period of time)
   • circa 1170, Chrétien de Troyes, Érec et Énide:

     quel haste avez,
     Qui a tel ore vos levez?

     What haste do you have

     That wakes up at this time of day?

Descendants

• English: hour
• French: heure
• Norman: heure, houre (continental Norman), heuthe (Jersey), haeure (Guernsey)

Portuguese

Verb

ore

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of orar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of orar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of orar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of orar

Romanian

Noun

ore f pl

1. plural of or?

Serbo-Croatian

Verb

ore (Cyrillic spelling ???)

1. third-person singular present of orati

Spanish

Verb

ore

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of orar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of orar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of orar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of orar.

Tarantino

Noun

ore

1. gold

English

Etymology

Blend of columbite +? tantalite.

Noun

coltan (plural coltans)

1. A metallic ore, (Fe,Mn)(Ta,Nb)₂O₆, from which the elements niobium and tantalum are extracted.

   Synonym: columbite-tantalite

   • 2007, Elizabeth Grossman, High Tech Trash, Island Press (?ISBN), page 46:

     […] as of 2003 over one billion cell phones were in use worldwide, so by the time the high-tech bubble approached its bursting point in 2000 and 2001, coltan had become an extremely hot commodity.

   • 2014, Adam Schatz, ‘Ça va un peu’, London Review of Books, vol. 36 no. 20:

     Consider your mobile phone. Before it was assembled in a Chinese factory, the coltan in its capacitors may have been dug by miners in the Eastern Congo, where millions have died in a series of wars over ‘conflict minerals’, though we give this no more thought than previous generations of Westerners gave to the Congolese origins of the ivory in their piano keys, the rubber in their tyres, the copper in their bullet casings or the uranium in their bombs.

Translations

Further reading

• David Barthelmy (1997–2021) , “Coltan”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database
• coltan on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Calton, locant

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: col?tan

Noun

coltan m (uncountable)

1. coltan

French

Noun

coltan m (uncountable)

1. coltan

Spanish

Noun

coltan m (uncountable)

1. coltan