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Ore vs Ere - What's the difference?

ore | ere |

As nouns the difference between ore and ere

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minerals and processed at a cost that does not exceed those materials' present-day economic values while ere is obsolete form of lang=en.

As an adverb ere is

at an earlier time.

As a preposition ere is

before; sooner than.

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

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    ere

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) ere, from (etyl) .

    Alternative forms

    * yer

    Adverb

    (-)
  • (obsolete) At an earlier time.
  • * 1526 , William Tyndale, trans. Bible , John I:
  • Thys is he of whome I spake, he that commeth after me, was before me be cause he was yer than I.

    Preposition

    (English prepositions)
  • (poetic, archaic) Before; sooner than.
  • * Bible, John iv. 49
  • Sir, come down ere my child die.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Stirring ere the break of day.
  • * Dryden
  • Ere sails were spread new oceans to explore.

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • * 1533, R. Saltwood:
  • As plesaunt to the ere as the blacke sanctus Of a sad sorte vpon a mery pyn.

    Anagrams

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