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pore
1[ pawr, pohr ]
verb (used without object)
- to read or study with steady attention or application:
a scholar poring over a rare old manuscript.
- to gaze earnestly or steadily:
to pore over a painting.
- to meditate or ponder intently (usually followed by over, on, or upon ):
He pored over the strange events of the preceding evening.
Synonyms: examine, peruse, scrutinize, ponder
pore
2[ pawr, pohr ]
noun
- a minute opening or orifice, as in the skin or a leaf, for perspiration, absorption, etc.
- a minute interstice, as in a rock.
pore
1/ pɔː /
verb
- foll by over to make a close intent examination or study (of a book, map, etc)
he pored over the documents for several hours
- foll byover, on, or upon to think deeply (about)
he pored on the question of their future
- rare.foll byover, on, or upon to look earnestly or intently (at); gaze fixedly (upon)
pore
2/ pɔː /
noun
- anatomy zoology any small opening in the skin or outer surface of an animal
- botany any small aperture, esp that of a stoma through which water vapour and gases pass
- any other small hole, such as a space in a rock, soil, etc
pore
/ pôr /
- A tiny opening, as one in an animal's skin or on the surface of a plant leaf or stem, through which liquids or gases may pass.
- A space in soil, rock, or loose sediment that is not occupied by mineral matter and allows the passage or absorption of fluids, such as water, petroleum, or air.
Usage
Other Words From
- porelike adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of pore1
Word History and Origins
Origin of pore1
Origin of pore2
Example Sentences
Had there not been photographs and memorabilia to pore over, dancing would have been the only sensible option.
It gave me license to pore over raw tape, again and again, to absorb the subtle clues of human behavior.
It is great fun to pore over clues and tunnel into a tree trunk like termites, and I am not apologizing for a guilty pleasure.
It is advice to sift, pore over, and weigh up, with a view to us deciding for ourselves.
The paranoia he unleashed was so overwhelming that it seeped into every pore of society, including the Pendle witch trials.
When I shifted my position, he turned the other way quick, and coughed–that pore little gone-in cough of hisn.
He bowed and sat down, white and perspiring at every pore, and hardly knowing to what he had committed himself.
He read the document again, and felt the perspiration oozing out of every pore.
"Hit's the pore house fer a cow hand," was his terse aphorism on the subject, and Landy had never seen a "fitten" poor house.
The pore little man was a thought too fond of wine and spirits; and many and many's the night that I've had to support him home.
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