pore

CEFRB2

/pɔː(ɹ)/

noun · verb

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A very small opening in the skin or a surface.

  2. 02

    verb

    To study or read something carefully.

Examples

  • Experts will now pore over the fine print of the contract.

  • In lab experiments, when researchers blocked that pore the parasite stopped growing and eventually died.

At a glance

Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
2
Citations
3
Synonyms
1

Also pronounced

  • /poɹ/

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. By extension any small opening or interstice, especially one of many, or one allowing the passage of a fluid.

  2. To study meticulously; to go over again and again.

  3. A tiny opening in the skin.

More examples

In context

  • I could sense the sweat dripping out of all my pores.

  • the pores of a rock.

  • Under certain conditions tangential sections indicate that the zoœcial walls and the intermural space are seemingly pierced by communication pores or connecting foramina.

Synonyms

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Origin

noun

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”).