Definitions for pore
pɔr, poʊrpore

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. porenoun

   any tiny hole admitting passage of a liquid (fluid or gas)

2. porenoun

   any small opening in the skin or outer surface of an animal

3. stoma, stomate, poreverb

   a minute epidermal pore in a leaf or stem through which gases and water vapor can pass

4. concentrate, focus, center, centre, pore, rivetverb

   direct one's attention on something

   "Please focus on your studies and not on your hobbies"

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. POREnoun

   Etymology: pore, Fr. πόϱος.

   1. Spiracle of the skin; passage of perspiration.

   Witches, carrying in the air, and transforming themselves into other bodies, by ointments and anointing themselves all over, may justly move a man to think, that these fables are the effects of imagination; for it is certain, that ointments do all, if laid on any thing thick, by stopping of the pores, shut in the vapours, and send them to the head extremely. Francis Bacon.

   Why was the sight
   To such a tender ball as th’ eye confin’d?
   So obvious and so easy to be quench’d,
   And not, as feeling through all parts diffus’d,
   That she might look at will through every pore. John Milton.

   2. Any narrow spiracle or passage.

   Pores are small interstices between the particles of matter which constitute every body, or between certain aggregates or combinations of them. John Quincy.

   From veins of vallies milk and nectar broke,
   And honey sweating through the pores of oak. Dryden.

2. To Poreverb

   To look with great intenseness and care; to examine with great attention.

   Etymology: ποϱος is the optick nerve; but I imagine pore to come by corruption from some English word.

   All delights are vain; but that most vain,
   Which with pain purchas’d, doth inherit pain;
   As painfully to pore upon a book,
   To seek the light of truth, while truth the while
   Doth falsely blind the eyesight, William Shakespeare.

   A book was writ, called Tetrachordon,
   The subject new: it walk’d the town a while,
   Numb’ring good intellects; now seldom por’d on. John Milton.

   The eye grows weary, with poring perpetually on the same thing. John Dryden, Dufresnoy.

   Let him with pedants hunt for praise in books,
   Pore out his life amongst the lazy gownmen,
   Grow old and vainly proud in fancy’d knowledge. Nicholas Rowe.

   With sharpen’d sight pale antiquaries pore,
   Th’ inscription value, but the rust adore. Alexander Pope.

   He hath been poring so long upon Fox’s Martyrs, that he imagines himself living in the reign of queen Mary. Jonathan Swift.

   The design is to avoid the imputation of pedantry, to shew that they understand men and manners, and have not been poring upon old unfashionable books. Jonathan Swift.

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1. pore

   A pore is a tiny opening or hole in a surface that allows substances to pass through. These tiny spaces can be found in various materials and organisms, such as the skin, plants, rocks, or even certain types of ceramics. Depending on where it is located, a pore could serve different functions such as the absorption of nutrients, the release of gases, or the transport of fluids.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. Pore

   one of the minute orifices in an animal or vegetable membrane, for transpiration, absorption, etc

2. Pore

   a minute opening or passageway; an interstice between the constituent particles or molecules of a body; as, the pores of stones

3. Poreverb

   to look or gaze steadily in reading or studying; to fix the attention; to be absorbed; -- often with on or upon, and now usually with over

4. Etymology: [OE. poren, of uncertain origin; cf. D. porren to poke, thrust, Gael. purr.]

WikidataRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Pore

   Pore is a town and municipality in the Department of Casanare, Colombia.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Pore

   pōr, n. a minute passage in the skin for the perspiration: an opening between the molecules of a body.—adjs. Pō′ral, of or pertaining to pores; Pō′riform, in the form of a pore.—ns. Pō′riness, Poros′ity, Pō′rousness, quality of being porous—opp. to Density.—adjs. Pō′rose, containing pores; Pō′rous, Pō′ry, having pores: that can be penetrated by fluid.—adv. Pō′rously. [Fr.,—L. porus—Gr. poros, a passage.]

2. Pore

   pōr, v.i. to look with steady attention on: to study closely.—n. Pō′rer. [Peer, to peep.]

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1. PORE

   What does PORE stand for? -- Explore the various meanings for the PORE acronym on the Abbreviations.com website.

EntomologyRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Pore

   any small, round opening on the surface.

Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. PORE

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Pore is ranked #30339 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Pore surname appeared 771 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Pore.
   
   57% or 440 total occurrences were White.
   30.6% or 236 total occurrences were Black.
   5.9% or 46 total occurrences were Asian.
   3.5% or 27 total occurrences were of two or more races.
   2.2% or 17 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   0.6% or 5 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.

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Anagrams for pore »

1. rope

How to pronounce pore?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

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   Mark

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   Daniel

   British

   Libby

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   Mia

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   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

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   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

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   Neerja

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   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

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   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of pore in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of pore in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of pore in a Sentence

1. Dylan Thomas:

   From my point of view the worst thing would be for it to end up in the hands of a private collector who locks it up in a bank vault for 50 years, it was hard to keep my hands off it -- I just want to pore through it, to be able to read every word in his crabbed, backwards-sloping hand -- it is such a covetable object.

2. William Wycherley:

   Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

3. Caitlyn Milton at Tomnod:

   Using high-resolution satellite imagery, we can engage a global community of online volunteers to pore over the imagery pixel by pixel.

4. Ken Paxton:

   This case is about abusing the power of the subpoena to force Exxon to turn over many decades’ worth of records, so an attorney general with an agenda can pore over them in hopes of finding something incriminating, [It] ... represents an effort to punish Exxon for daring to hold an opinion on climate change that differs from that of radical environmentalists.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=pore
2. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=pore
3. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
4. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pore
5. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=pore
6. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=pore
7. ^ Entomology
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/22748/22748-h/22748-h.htm#:~:text=pore
8. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html