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Pore
Definitions
- 1 A tiny opening in the skin.
"I could sense the sweat dripping out of all my pores."
- 2 any small opening in the skin or outer surface of an animal wordnet
- 3 By extension any small opening or interstice, especially one of many, or one allowing the passage of a fluid.
"the pores of a rock."
- 4 a minute epidermal pore in a leaf or stem through which gases and water vapor can pass wordnet
- 5 any tiny hole admitting passage of a liquid (fluid or gas) wordnet
- 1 To study meticulously; to go over again and again.
"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."
- 2 direct one's attention on something wordnet
- 3 To meditate or reflect in a steady way.
Etymology
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”).
From Middle English poren, pouren, puren (“to gaze intently, look closely”), from Old English *pūrian, from Proto-West Germanic *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.
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