What is the name meaning of ORE. Phrases containing ORE
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English
English : variant spelling of Ore.
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English
English : habitational name from any of the places called Oare in Berkshire, Kent, and Wiltshire, or Ore in East Sussex, all named with Old English Åra ‘shore’, ‘hill-slope’, ‘flat-topped ridge’. It may also be a topographic name from the same element, though Reaney and Wilson consider that in general this would have had an initial N-. Compare Noah 2.Scottish : possibly from the Sussex place name.
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Greek
From the mountain.
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Greek
From the mountain.
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Russian Slavic
Eagle.
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English
English : occupational name for someone who built mines, either for the excavation of coal and other minerals, or as a technique in the medieval art of siege warfare. The word represents an agent derivative of Middle English, Old French mine ‘mine’ (a word of Celtic origin, cognate with Gaelic mein ‘ore’, ‘mine’).
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Native American
Native American Iroquois name ORENDA means "magic power."
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Greek
(ὈÏÎστης) Greek name derived from the word orestias, ORESTES means "of the mountains." In mythology, this is the name of the son of Agamemnon.
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Russian Slavic English
Eagle.
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English
English : unexplained.Belgian : habitational name from a place called Oreye or Oerle in Liège province.
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Greek
From the mountain.
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English
English : of uncertain origin. A certain William de Orenge mentioned in Domesday Book probably derives his name from Orange in Mayenne. Later medieval examples probably come from a female personal , Orenge, of obscure derivation.French : habitational name from a place in Vaucluse.
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Biblical
A raven.
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Northern English, Scottish, and northern Irish
Northern English, Scottish, and northern Irish : from the Old Norse byname Orri ‘blackcock’ (the male black grouse).Scottish : nickname for someone with a sallow complexion, from Gaelic odhar ‘pale’, ‘dun’.English : topographic name for someone who lived on a shore or ridge, from Old English Åra ‘shore’, ‘hill-slope’, ‘flat-topped ridge’, or a habitational name from a place named with this word (see Ore).
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Greek
Friend of Orestes.
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British, English, German, Slavic, Swiss
Ore Hill; Both a Surname and a Place Name
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English
English : habitational name from places called Harwell in south Oxfordshire (formerly part of Berkshire) and Nottinghamshire. The former was named in Old English as ‘spring or stream by or from the gray one’, from HÄra ‘the gray’ (here referring to a certain hill) + wella; while the latter was named from Old English hÄ“ore, hÌ„re ‘pleasant’ + wella ‘stream’.
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English, German, and Jewish (Sephardic and Israeli)
English, German, and Jewish (Sephardic and Israeli) : from the Biblical personal name Noah (see Noe).English : probably a variant spelling of Noar, a topographic name derived from misdivision of the Middle English phrase atten ore ‘at the bank or steep slope’ (Old English Åra).
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Gaelic American Hebrew
Pale.
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English (Lancashire)
English (Lancashire) : habitational name from either of two minor places in Lancashire called Orell, from Old English Åra ‘ore’ + hyll ‘hill’, probably denoting a hill with deposits of iron ore. Reaney and Wilson also mention a medieval female personal name, Orella, but there is no evidence of a link with the surname.Swedish : unexplained.
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n.
A square, hollow place on the back of a calcining furnace, where tin ore is laid to dry.
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A shovel used in cleansing ore.
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The nonmetalliferous mineral or rock material which accompanies the ores in a vein, as quartz, calcite, barite, fluor spar, etc.; -- called also veinstuff.
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The edible tuber of a species of arrowhead (Sagittaria variabilis); -- so called by the Indians of Oregon.
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A process by which ores are washed on a shovel, or in a vanner.
v. t.
To treat with forcible means; to take severe or violent measures with; as, to urge an ore with intense heat.
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A machine for concentrating ore. See Frue vanner.
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The act or process of washing ores in a buddle.
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A wooden tub for washing ores and mineral substances in.
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Of or pertaining to oreography.
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A white crystalline substance which is obtained indirectly from the root of an umbelliferous plant (Imperatoria Oreoselinum), and yields resorcin on decomposition.
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A trough for washing ores.
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A narrow mass of rock intersecting other rocks, and filling inclined or vertical fissures not corresponding with the stratification; a lode; a dike; -- often limited, in the language of miners, to a mineral vein or lode, that is, to a vein which contains useful minerals or ores.
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The vagus, ore pneumogastric, nerve.
a.
Resembling, or allied to, the genus Oreodon.
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Metal; as, the liquid ore.
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The operation of expelling one substance from another by heat, as sulphur or arsenic from ores, in a muffle.
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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).
v. t.
To wash or cleanse, as a small portion of ore, on a shovel.