Ore vs Fore - What's the difference?
ore | fore |
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.
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, title= (obsolete) Former; occurring earlier (in some order); previous.
Forward; situated towards the front (of something).
* 1969 , Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor , Penguin 2011, p. 23:
(golf) An exclamation yelled to inform players a ball is moving in their direction.
The front; the forward part of something; the foreground.
* 2002 , Mark Bevir, The Logic of the History of Ideas :
In the part that precedes or goes first; opposed to aft, after, back, behind, etc.
(obsolete) Formerly; previously; afore.
* Shakespeare
(nautical) In or towards the bows of a ship.
(fare)
As a verb ore
is to hear.As a noun fore is
forest .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
* * ----fore
English
Etymology 1
A development of the prefix .Adjective
- the fore part of the day
- the fore end of a wagon
- Crystal vases with crimson roses and golden-brown asters were set here and there in the fore part of the shop [...].
Antonyms
* (order) latter * (location) aftInterjection
(en interjection)Noun
(-)- The fore was painted white.
- People face a dilemma whenever they bring to the fore an understanding that appears inadequate in the light of the other beliefs they bring to bear on it.
Adverb
(-)- The eyes, fore duteous, now converted are.