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Gore

//ɡɔː// name, noun, verb

Definitions

Proper Noun

1
A surname.
"Al Gore was the 45th Vice-President of the United States."
2
A male given name transferred from the surname.
3
A place name:; A town in eastern Southland, New Zealand, situated on the Mataura River and named after Thomas Gore Browne.
4
A place name:; A town in eastern Southland, New Zealand, situated on the Mataura River and named after Thomas Gore Browne.; A territorial authority in Southland, New Zealand, that includes the town; in full, Gore District.
5
A place name:; A small town in Goondiwindi Region, Queensland, Australia, named after St George Richard Gore.

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A place name:; Gore Water, a minor tributary in Scotland which flows through Gorebridge to the River South Esk.
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A place name:; A rural community in Hants County, Nova Scotia, Canada, named after Charles Stephen Gore.
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A place name:; A township municipality in Argenteuil Regional County Municipality, Quebec, Canada, named after Francis Gore.
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A place name:; A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Chattooga County, Georgia.
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A place name:; A number of places in the United States:; A township in Huron County, Michigan.
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A place name:; A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Warren County, Missouri.
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A place name:; A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Hocking County, Ohio.
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A place name:; A number of places in the United States:; A town in Sequoyah County, Oklahoma, named after Thomas Gore.
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A place name:; A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Frederick County, Virginia.

Noun

1
Blood, especially that from a wound when thickened due to exposure to the air. uncountable, usually
2
A triangular piece of land where roads meet.
"I have a number of these, but this gentleman up in the gore just below the arrow was traveling in the fast lane of 495."
3
the shedding of blood resulting in murder wordnet
4
A gout or mass of such blood. countable, obsolete, usually
"And I beheld the roof and the walls one gore of blood."
5
A triangular strip of land left over at the end of a not-fully-rectangular field. archaic, dialectal

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a piece of cloth that is generally triangular or tapering; used in making garments or umbrellas or sails wordnet
7
Carnage, bloodshed, murder, violence. uncountable, usually
"The zombie scenes are reminiscent of what you might see on a show like The Walking Dead, short bursts of extreme violence and gore punctuating expository dialogue scenes where the survivors try to figure out how they’re going to get from point A to point B."
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A small piece of land left unincorporated due to competing surveys or a surveying error. US
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coagulated blood from a wound wordnet
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Dirt, filth, often dung or mud. uncountable, usually
"As a sowe waloweth in the stynkynge gore pytte, or in the puddell."
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The curved surface that lies between two close lines of longitude on a globe, or an equivalent section of a spherical or dome-shaped object in general.ᵂᵖ
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A triangular or rhomboid piece of fabric, especially one forming part of a three-dimensional surface such as a sail or a skirt.
"Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days. […] Frills, ruffles, flounces, lace, complicated seams and gores: not only did they sweep the ground and have to be held up in one hand elegantly as you walked along, but they had little capes or coats or feather boas."
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An elastic gusset for providing a snug fit in a shoe.
14
A projecting point.
15
A charge, delineated by two inwardly curved lines, starting respectively from the middle base corner and one of the two chief corners and meeting in the fess point.
16
A sign immediately adjacent to an exit from a roadway identifying it as an exit, optionally with the exit's identification number.

Verb

1
To cover or smear with blood. obsolete, transitive
2
To pierce with a horn or tusk. transitive
"The bull gored the matador."
3
To cut into a triangular form.
4
wound by piercing with a sharp or penetrating object or instrument wordnet
5
To pierce with anything pointed, such as a spear. obsolete, transitive

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To provide with a gore.
"to gore an apron"
7
cut into gores wordnet
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To needle or wound the feelings of. figuratively, intransitive, obsolete, transitive

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English gore, gor, gorre (“mud, muck”), from Old English gor (“manure, dung, filth, muck, dirt”), from Proto-West Germanic *gor, from Proto-Germanic *gurą (“half-digested stomach contents; faeces; manure”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰer- (“hot; warm”). Cognate to Old Norse gorr, gor (“intestines, (half-digested) intestinal contents, filth, dung; peat, silt-esc earth”).

Etymology 2

Etymology 3

From Middle English goren, from gore (“gore”), ultimately from Old English gār (“spear”), from Proto-West Germanic *gaiʀ, from Proto-Germanic *gaizaz, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰoysós. Related to gar and gore (“a projecting point”).

Etymology 4

From Middle English gore (“patch (of land, fabric), clothes”), from Old English gāra, from Proto-West Germanic *gaiʀō, from Proto-Germanic *gaizô.

Etymology 5

From Middle English gore (“patch (of land, fabric), clothes”), from Old English gāra, from Proto-West Germanic *gaiʀō, from Proto-Germanic *gaizô.

Etymology 6

From any of various places named Gore, from gore (“a triangular piece of land where roads meet”).

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