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ure

ure noun: use, practise, exercise. Also the abbreviation of you're.

Noun (1)

ure (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) Use, practise, exercise.
    • I cannot vtter any more, for words waxe out of vre1567, Ovid, “The Seconde Booke”, in Arthur Golding, transl., The XV. Bookes of P. Ouidius Naso, Entytuled Metamorphosis, […], London: […] Willyam Seres […], →OCLC
    • But come, let vs be sure of this, to put the best in vre
      That lies in vs;c. 1611, George Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer, London: Nathaniell Butter, Book 17, p. 248

Verb

ure (third-person singular simple present ures, present participle uring, simple past and past participle ured)

  1. (ambitransitive, obsolete) To use; to exercise; to inure; to accustom by practice.
    • […] the French soldiers […] from their youth have been practised and ured in feats of arms […]1551, Ralph Robinson (translator), Utopia (1516) by Thomas More, edited by William Dallam Armes, New York: Macmillan, 1912, Book 1, p. 37

Noun (2)

ure (plural ures)

  1. (rare) Synonym of aurochs.
    • The Vre therefoꝛe ryſeth in the fardeſt partes of all Richmondeſhyꝛe, among the Coterine hilles, in a moſſe, towarde the weſt fourtéene myles beyonde Mydleham.1577, William Harrison, “[An Historicall Description of the Islande of Britayne, […].] Of such Riuers as fall into the Sea, betweene Humber to the Thames.”, in The Firste Volume of the Chronicles of...
    • The Auer or Ure ox or European Bison, (bos urus, bonasus, bison,) is one of the largest oxen, and distinguished by a curly manelike product about the head and neck, by a very broad, arched forehead, and by moderate horns situated far apart, and being curved inward and upward in the shape of a...1864, “Species of Cattle, and Origin of the Domesticated Cattle”, in Eighteenth Annual Report of the Ohio State Board of Agriculture, with an Abstract of the Proceedings of the County Agricultural...
    Synonyms:
    aurochs

Proper noun capitalized: Ure

Ure

  1. A river in North Yorkshire, England, which flows through Wensleydale
  2. A surname.

Also used as

ure is also the abbreviation of you're.

Examples of ure in a sentence

  • ...it maketh him practise simulation in other things, lest his hand should be out of ure1597-1625, Essays (Francis Bacon) of Francis Bacon, On Simulation and Dissimulation, Random House 1955: Hugh G. Dick, p. 19 _Volume_1.djvu)
  • Formerly the ure was considered the parent of the same, but this is improbable on account of the anatomical differences between the ure and the common cattle.1864, “Species of Cattle, and Origin of the Domesticated Cattle”, in Eighteenth Annual Report of the Ohio State Board of Agriculture, with...
  • To have killed an ure is held in highest honour among the Germans, and its horns, set in silver, serve as drinking vessels at their carouses.”1911, S. Baring-Gould, “Chapter VIII. The Fils Thal”, in The Land of Teck and Its Neighbourhood; […], London: John Lane, The Bodley Head...

Synonyms of ure

Forms of ure

Verb
third-person singular presentures
present participleuring
past participleured
pastured
Noun
pluralures

Origin of ure

From Middle English ure, from Anglo-Norman *ure, Old French uevre (modern French œuvre), from Latin opera (“work, labor”). Doublet of oeuvre, opera, and opus.

From Middle French ure or its etymon Latin ūrus. Doublet of urus.

From Middle English Yore, Jor, from Old English Earp, corrupted from *Ear + ƿ (abbreviation for ƿæter (“water”)); first element from Brythonic *Isurā with loss of intervocalic s, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *isərós (“vigorous, quick”), from *eis(ə, related to Sanskrit इषिरम् (iṣiram, “fast, quick”). Compare the Gaulish river Isara.

Words formed from ure

Phrases with ure

Questions about ure

What does ure mean?
Ure means use, practise, exercise.
How do you use ure in a sentence?
...it maketh him practise simulation in other things, lest his hand should be out of ure
What part of speech is ure?
Ure can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
What is the plural of ure?
The plural of ure is ures.

Words near ure in the dictionary

  1. Urduphone
  2. Urduwood
  3. urdy
  4. urdé
  5. urdée
  6. ure
  7. urea
  8. urea cycle
  9. urea-formaldehyde
  10. urea-formaldehydes
  11. ureaform

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