Ore vs Ere - What's the difference?
ore | ere |
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= (obsolete) At an earlier time.
* 1526 , William Tyndale, trans. Bible , John I:
(poetic, archaic) Before; sooner than.
* Bible, John iv. 49
* Shakespeare
* Dryden
* 1533, R. Saltwood:
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minerals and processed at a cost that does not exceed those materials' present-day economic values while ere is obsolete form of lang=en.As an adverb ere is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
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
* * ----ere
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) ere, from (etyl) .Alternative forms
* yerAdverb
(-)- 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)- Sir, come down ere my child die.
- Stirring ere the break of day.
- Ere sails were spread new oceans to explore.
Quotations
* (English Citations of "ere")Etymology 2
Noun
(en noun)- As plesaunt to the ere as the blacke sanctus Of a sad sorte vpon a mery pyn.