pore
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: pô, IPA(key): /pɔː(ɹ)/Category:English 1-syllable words#PORECategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#PORE
- (General American) enPR: pôr, IPA(key): /poɹ/Category:English 1-syllable words#PORECategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#PORE
- (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: pōr, IPA(key): /po(ː)ɹ/Category:English 1-syllable words#PORECategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#PORE
- (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /poə/Category:English 2-syllable words#PORECategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#PORE
Category:English terms with audio pronunciation#POREAudio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)Category:Rhymes:English/ɔː(ɹ)#PORECategory:Rhymes:English/ɔː(ɹ)/1 syllable#PORE
- Homophones: pour; poor (pour–poor merger); paw (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger)Category:English terms with homophones#PORE
Etymology 1
Category:English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#PORECategory:English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *per-#POREFrom Middle EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Middle English#PORECategory:English terms derived from Middle English#PORE pore, from Old FrenchCategory:English terms derived from Old French#PORE pore, from LatinCategory:English terms derived from Latin#PORE porus, from Ancient GreekCategory:English terms derived from Ancient Greek#PORE πόρος (póros, “passage”). Displaced native English sweat hole from Middle English swet hole, which might have been a reformation of Old English swātþȳrel (literally “sweat hole”), which competed with līcþēote (literally “body pipe”).
Noun
pore (plural pores)Category:English lemmas#PORECategory:English nouns#PORECategory:English countable nouns#PORECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#PORECategory:Pages with entries#PORECategory:Pages with 11 entries#PORE
- A tiny opening in the skin.
- Synonym: sweat hole
- I could sense the sweat dripping out of all my pores.Category:English terms with usage examples#PORE
- By extension any small opening or interstice, especially one of many, or one allowing the passage of a fluid.
- the pores of a rock.Category:English terms with usage examples#PORE
- 1903, Ray Smith Bassler, The Structural Features of the Bryozoan Genus Homotrypa, with Descriptions of Species from the Cincinnatian Group, page 570:
- Under certain conditions tangential sections indicate that the zoœcial walls and the intermural space are seemingly pierced by communication pores or connecting foramina.Category:English terms with quotations#PORE
- 1947, Walter Johnson, “The Rebirth of the Progressive Movement”, in William Allen White’s America, New York, N.Y.: Henry Holt and Company, →OCLC, part IV (Normalcy and Reform), page 436:
- After reading White’s vitriolic language, The New York Times facetiously remarked that “Kansas is bleeding from every pore of her vocabularium. Sharp’s rifles are discharging from the well-known Emporium of White & Son, unlimited, and Bibles are closed until after election.”Category:English terms with quotations#PORE
Derived terms
- abdominal pore
- acidopore
- anal pore
- apical germ pore
- aporetic
- aporia
- aporic
- biopore
- blastopore
- colporate
- cryptopore
- dactylopore
- electropore
- gastropore
- germ pore
- gonopore
- haematomyelopore
- hemipore
- interpore
- intrapore
- isopore
- macropore
- mesopore
- micropore
- millipore
- nanopore
- nephridiopore
- nephropore
- neuropore
- nuclear pore complex
- nucleopore
- parapore
- polypore
- poration
- porefield
- poreless
- porelike
- pore space
- pore strip
- porewater
- pore water pressure
- poriferous
- porin
- porite
- poroid
- poroma
- pory
- prepore
- protopore
- sweat pore
- taste pore
Related terms
Translations
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Etymology 2
From Middle EnglishCategory:English terms derived from Middle English#PORE poren, pouren, puren (“to gaze intently, look closely”), from Old EnglishCategory:English terms derived from Old English#PORE *pūrian, from Proto-West GermanicCategory:English terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic#PORECategory:English terms derived from Proto-West Germanic#PORE *pūrōn, suggested by Old English spyrian (“to investigate, examine”). Akin to Saterland Frisian puurje (“to question, investigate; pry, prod”), West Frisian poarje (“to poke, prod”), Middle Dutch poren (“to pore, look”), Dutch porren (“to poke, prod, stir, encourage, endeavour, attempt”), Low German purren (“to poke, stir”), Danish purre (“to poke, stir, rouse”), dialectal Swedish pora, pura, påra (“to work slowly and gradually, work deliberately”), Old English spor (“track, trace, vestige”). Compare also Middle English puren, piren (“to look, peer”). See peer.
Verb
pore (third-person singular simple present pores, present participle poring, simple past and past participle pored)Category:English lemmas#PORECategory:English verbs#PORECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#PORECategory:Pages with entries#PORECategory:Pages with 11 entries#PORE
- To study meticulously; to go over again and again.
- 1826, [Mary Shelley], chapter X, in The Last Man. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC:
- Yet each foreign post day she watched for the arrival of letters - knew the postmark, and watched me as I read. I found her often poring over the articles of Greek intelligence in the newspaper.Category:English terms with quotations#PORE
- To meditate or reflect in a steady way.
Derived terms
Translations
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Anagrams
Cornish
Noun
poreCategory:Cornish non-lemma forms#PORECategory:Cornish mutated nouns#PORECategory:Cornish entries with incorrect language header#PORECategory:Pages with entries#PORECategory:Pages with 11 entries#PORE
- hard mutation of boreCategory:Cornish hard-mutation forms#BORE
Danish
Etymology
From LatinCategory:Danish terms derived from Latin#PORE porus, from Ancient GreekCategory:Danish terms derived from Ancient Greek#PORE πόρος (póros).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /poːrə/, [ˈpʰoːɐ]Category:Danish terms with IPA pronunciation#PORE
Noun
pore c (singular definite poren, plural indefinite porer)Category:Danish lemmas#PORECategory:Danish nouns#PORECategory:Danish entries with incorrect language header#PORECategory:Danish common-gender nouns#PORECategory:Pages with entries#PORECategory:Pages with 11 entries#PORE
- pore (a tiny opening in the skin)
Inflection
Finnish
Etymology
From Proto-FinnicCategory:Finnish terms inherited from Proto-Finnic#PORECategory:Finnish terms derived from Proto-Finnic#PORE *porëk, equivalent to por- + -eCategory:Finnish terms suffixed with -e#PORE.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈporeˣ/, [ˈpo̞re̞(ʔ)]Category:Finnish 2-syllable words#PORECategory:Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation#PORE
- Rhymes: -oreCategory:Rhymes:Finnish/ore#PORECategory:Rhymes:Finnish/ore/2 syllables#PORE
- Syllabification(key): po‧re
- Hyphenation(key): po‧re
Noun
poreCategory:Finnish lemmas#PORECategory:Finnish nouns#PORECategory:Finnish entries with incorrect language header#PORECategory:Pages with entries#PORECategory:Pages with 11 entries#PORE
- bubble (gas bubble in water)
- Synonym: kupla
- area of molten water near the edge of ice in a melting lake
- (slangCategory:Finnish slang#PORE) speed (recreational amphetamine drug)
Declension
| Inflection of pore (Kotus type 48/hame, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | pore | poreet | |
| genitive | poreen | poreiden poreitten | |
| partitive | poretta | poreita | |
| illative | poreeseen | poreisiin poreihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | pore | poreet | |
| accusative | nom. | pore | poreet |
| gen. | poreen | ||
| genitive | poreen | poreiden poreitten | |
| partitive | poretta | poreita | |
| inessive | poreessa | poreissa | |
| elative | poreesta | poreista | |
| illative | poreeseen | poreisiin poreihin | |
| adessive | poreella | poreilla | |
| ablative | poreelta | poreilta | |
| allative | poreelle | poreille | |
| essive | poreena | poreina | |
| translative | poreeksi | poreiksi | |
| abessive | poreetta | poreitta | |
| instructive | — | porein | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
Derived terms
Further reading
- “pore”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 3 July 2023
Anagrams
French
Etymology
From Old FrenchCategory:French terms derived from Old French#PORE pore, from LatinCategory:French terms derived from Latin#PORE porus, from Ancient GreekCategory:French terms derived from Ancient Greek#PORE πόρος (póros, “passage”).
Pronunciation
Noun
pore m (plural pores)Category:French lemmas#PORECategory:French nouns#PORECategory:French countable nouns#PORECategory:French entries with incorrect language header#PORECategory:French masculine nouns#PORECategory:Pages with entries#PORECategory:Pages with 11 entries#PORE
Derived terms
Further reading
- “pore”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
Middle English
Adjective
poreCategory:Middle English lemmas#PORECategory:Middle English adjectives#PORECategory:Middle English entries with incorrect language header#PORECategory:Pages with entries#PORECategory:Pages with 11 entries#PORE
- alternative form of pure
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Ancient GreekCategory:Norwegian Bokmål terms derived from Ancient Greek#PORE πόρος (póros, “passage”).
Noun
pore f or m (definite singular pora or poren, indefinite plural porer, definite plural porene)Category:Norwegian Bokmål lemmas#PORECategory:Norwegian Bokmål nouns#PORECategory:Norwegian Bokmål entries with incorrect language header#PORECategory:Norwegian Bokmål feminine nouns#PORECategory:Norwegian Bokmål masculine nouns#PORECategory:Norwegian Bokmål nouns with multiple genders#PORECategory:Pages with entries#PORECategory:Pages with 11 entries#PORE
- a pore (e.g. in the skin)
Related terms
References
- “pore” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Ancient GreekCategory:Norwegian Nynorsk terms derived from Ancient Greek#PORE πόρος (póros, “passage”).
Noun
pore f (definite singular pora, indefinite plural porer, definite plural porene)Category:Norwegian Nynorsk lemmas#PORECategory:Norwegian Nynorsk nouns#PORECategory:Norwegian Nynorsk entries with incorrect language header#PORECategory:Norwegian Nynorsk feminine nouns#PORECategory:Pages with entries#PORECategory:Pages with 11 entries#PORE
- a pore (e.g. in the skin)
Related terms
References
- “pore” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old French
Etymology
Borrowed from LatinCategory:Old French terms derived from Latin#PORE porus, from Ancient GreekCategory:Old French terms derived from Ancient Greek#PORE πόρος (póros, “passage”).
Noun
pore oblique singular, m (oblique plural pores, nominative singular pores, nominative plural pore)Category:Old French lemmas#PORECategory:Old French nouns#PORECategory:Old French masculine nouns#PORECategory:Old French entries with incorrect language header#PORECategory:Old French masculine nouns#PORECategory:Pages with entries#PORECategory:Pages with 11 entries#PORE
- pore (small opening in skin)
Venetan
Adjective
pore fCategory:Venetan non-lemma forms#PORECategory:Venetan adjective forms#PORECategory:Venetan entries with incorrect language header#PORECategory:Pages with entries#PORECategory:Pages with 11 entries#PORE
Yanomamö
Noun
poreCategory:Yanomamö lemmas#PORECategory:Yanomamö nouns#PORECategory:Yanomamö entries with incorrect language header#PORECategory:Pages with entries#PORECategory:Pages with 11 entries#PORE
- a type of ghost, apparition with glowing red eyes which wanders through jungles or villages
References
- Lizot, Jacques (2004), Diccionario enciclopédico de la lengua yãnomãmɨ (in Spanish), Vicariato apostólico de Puerto Ayacucho, →ISBN