Ora vs Orc - What's the difference?
ora | orc |
; mouths or openings, especially of the cervix.
(fantasy, mythology) A mythical evil monstrous humanoid creature, usually quite aggressive.
* 1656 , Samuel Holland, Don Zara del Fogo , I.1:
* 1834 , "The National Fairy Mythology of England" in Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country, Vol. 10, p. 53:
* 1954 , (JRR Tolkien), The Fellowship of the Ring :
As nouns the difference between ora and orc
is that ora is plural of lang=en; mouths or openings, especially of the cervix while orc is any of several large, ferocious sea creatures, now especially the killer whale.As a proper noun Ora
is {{given name|female|from=Latin}}. Mainly used in the U.S.A. in the latter half of the 19th century.As an initialism ORC is
orange River Colony, a name given to the Orange Free State when annexed by Britain in 1900.ora
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Etymology 1
Noun
(head)Etymology 2
Anglo-Saxon.orc
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(wikipedia orc)Etymology 1
From (etyl) orque, (etyl) orca, and their source, (etyl) .Etymology 2
Probably from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- Who at one stroke didst pare away three heads from off the shoulders of an Orke , begotten by an Incubus.
- The chief exploit of the hero, Beowulf the Great, is the destruction of the two monsters Grendel and his mother; both like most of the evil beings in the old times, dwellers in the fens and the waters; and both, moreover, as some Christian bard has taken care to inform us, of "Cain's kin," as were also the eotens, and the elves, and the orcs (eótenas, and ylfe, and orcneas).
- There was a flash like flame and the helm burst asunder. The orc fell with cloven head.