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Ore vs Copper - What's the difference?

ore | copper |

As nouns the difference between ore and copper

is that ore is rock that contains utilitarian materials; primarily a rock containing metals or gems which—at the time of the rock's evaluation and proposal for extraction—are able to be separated from its neighboring minerals and processed at a cost that does not exceed those materials' present-day economic values while copper is a reddish-brown, malleable, ductile metallic element with high electrical and thermal conductivity, symbol Cu, and atomic number 29.

As an adjective copper is

made of copper.

As a verb copper is

to sheathe or coat with copper.

ore

English

(wikipedia ore)

Noun

  • Rock that contains utilitarian materials; primarily a rock containing metals or gems which—at the time of the rock's evaluation and proposal for extraction—are able to be separated from its neighboring minerals and processed at a cost that does not exceed those materials' present-day economic values.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2014-04-21, volume=411, issue=8884, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= Subtle effects , passage=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.}}

    See also

    * (wikipedia "ore")

    Anagrams

    * * ----

    copper

    English

    (wikipedia copper)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) coper, from (etyl) coper, .

    Noun

  • (lb) a reddish-brown, malleable, ductile metallic element with high electrical and thermal conductivity, symbol Cu, and atomic number 29.
  • (lb) Something made of copper.
  • The reddish-brown colour/color of copper.
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  • (lb) A copper coin.
  • *(Benjamin Franklin) (1706-1790)
  • *:My friends filled my pockets with coppers .
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  • *:"I don't want to spoil any comparison you are going to make," said Jim, "but I was at Winchester and New College." ¶ "That will do," said Mackenzie. "I was dragged up at the workhouse school till I was twelve. Then I ran away and sold papers in the streets, and anything else that I could pick up a few coppers by—except steal.."
  • A large pot, often used for heating water or washing clothes over a fire. In Australasia at least, it could also be a fixed installation made of copper, with a fire underneath and its own chimney. Generally made redundant by the advent of the washing machine.
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  • *1797 , Dyeing'', article in Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig (editors), ''Encyclopædia Britannica: or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature , Volume 6, Part 1 p.207:
  • *:When the water in the copper boils, the arsenic and tartar, well pounded, is put into it, and kept boiling till the liquor is reduced to about half.
  • Synonyms
    * (colour) chestnut, russet
    Derived terms
    * antimonial copper * arsenical copper * barium copper oxide * black copper * black copper ore * blister copper, blistered copper * blanched copper * blue copper * Bungtown copper * Chessy copper * chromated copper arsenate * clear one's coppers * cool one's coppers * copper acetate * copper age * copper arsenate * copper-arsenide * copper-arsenite * copper-beech * copper-bellied snake * copper-belly * Copper Belt * copperbelt * copper belt * copper-bit * copper-blende * copper-bloom * copper-bottom * copper-bottomed * copper-bound * copper-butterfly * copper-cap * copper-captain * copper carbonate * copper chloride * copper-colic * copper-colored * copper-coloured * copper-cut * copper dichloride * coppered * copper-emerald * copperer * Copper Eskimo * copper-faced * copper-fasten * copper-fastened * copper-finch * copper-foil * copper-glance * copper-green * copperhead * copper-head * copper-headed * copper-hells * copper-hops * copper-Indian * coppering * copper-iron * copperise * copperize * copperish * copper-knob * copper loss * copper-man * copper-manganese * copper-mica * copper-nickel * copper nitrate * coppernob * copper-nose * copper ore * copper oxide * copper phosphide * copper-place * copperplate * copper-powder * copper pyrites * copper-rain * copper schist * copperskin * copper-skinned * copper-slate * coppersmith * copper-smoke * copper-snake * copper-spot * copper sulfate * copper sulphate * copper sulfide * copper sulphide * copper-top * copper-topped * copper uranite * copper-vitriol * copperware * copper-wing * copper-work * copper-works * coppery * copper-zinc * disulfide of copper * disulphide of copper * dry copper * emerald copper * emerald copper ore * enamelers' copper * enamellers' copper * gold-copper ore * grey copper * grey copper ore * hot coppers * indigo copper * japan copper * large copper * manganese copper * octahedral copper * octahedral copper ore * phosphor copper * purple copper * purple copper ore * pyritous copper * red copper * scarce copper * silver-copper nitrate * sulfate of copper * sulphate of copper * variegated copper * variegated copper ore * velvet copper * velvet copper ore * white copper * yellow copper * yellow copper ore

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Made of copper.
  • Having the reddish-brown colour/color of copper.
  • * Coleridge
  • All in a hot and copper sky,
    The bloody Sun, at noon,
    Right up above the mast did stand,
    No bigger than the Moon.
    Synonyms
    * (made of copper) * (having the colour/color of copper ): coppery

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To sheathe or coat with copper.
  • See also

    * anna * azurite * bell metal * bluestone * blue vitriol * Bordeaux mixture * bornite * brass * bronze * Caboclo * chalcid * chalcanthite * chalcocite * chalcopyrite * chalcosis * chessylite * chrysocolla * covellite * ferrous sulphate * kipper * lentigohepatic degeneration * malachite * Monel * olivenite * ormolu * patina * peacock ore * soldo * speculum metal * tombac * verd antique * verdigris * * Wilson's disease *

    Etymology 2

    From

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (slang, law enforcement) A police officer.
  • Synonyms
    * (policeman) police officer, constable, cop, see also