Definition/Meaning of pore

• English - Noun: pore (plural pores) A tiny opening in the skin . I could sense the sweat dripping out of all my pores . By extension any small opening or interstice , especially one of many, or one allowing the passage of a fluid . the pores of a rock. 1903, Ray Smith Bassler, The Structural Features of the Bryozoan Genus Homotrypa, with Descriptions of Species from the Cincinnatian Group, page 570: Under…
• English - Verb: pore (third-person singular simple present pores, present participle poring, simple past and past participle pored) To study meticulous ly; 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…
• English - Anagrams: repo rope
• English - Etymology: Etymology 1. From Middle English pore , from Old French pore, from Latin porus , from Ancient Greek 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”). Etymology 2. From Middle English poren , pouren , puren (“to…
• English - Pronunciation: (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /pɔː(ɹ)/ (General American) IPA: /poɹ/ IPA: /po(ː)ɹ/ , /poə/ Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ) Homophone: pour Homophone: poor (pour–poor merger) Homophone: paw (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger) Homophone: pour Homophone: poor (pour–poor merger)