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Ore vs Vein - What's the difference?

ore | vein |

As nouns the difference between ore and vein

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 vein is a blood vessel that transports blood from the capillaries back to the heart.

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

    * * ----

    vein

    English

    (wikipedia vein)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (anatomy) A blood vessel that transports blood from the capillaries back to the heart
  • (used in plural veins ) The entrails of a shrimp
  • (botany) In leaves, a thickened portion of the leaf containing the vascular bundle
  • (zoology) The nervure of an insect’s wing
  • A stripe or streak of a different colour or composition in materials such as wood, cheese, marble or other rocks
  • A topic of discussion; a train of association, thoughts, emotions, etc.
  • ...in the same vein ...
  • * Jonathan Swift
  • He can open a vein of true and noble thinking.
  • A style, tendency, or quality.
  • The play is in a satirical vein .
  • * Francis Bacon
  • certain discoursing wits which are of the same veins
  • * Waller
  • Invoke the Muses, and improve my vein .
  • A fissure, cleft, or cavity, as in the earth or other substance.
  • * Milton
  • down to the veins of earth
  • * Isaac Newton
  • Let the glass of the prisms be free from veins .

    See also

    * artery * blood vessel * capillary * circulatory system * phlebitis * vena cava