pore

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Pronunciation

• (America) enPR: pôr, IPA: /pɔɹ/
• (RP) enPR: pô, IPA: /pɔː/
• (rhotic, horse-hoarse) enPR: pōr, IPA: /po(ː)ɹ/
• (nonrhotic, horse-hoarse) IPA: /poə/

Noun

pore (plural pores)

1. A tiny opening in the skin.
2. By extension any small opening or interstice, especially one of many, or one allowing the passage of a fluid.

Related terms

• porous

Translations

• French: pore
• German: Pore
• Italian: poro
• Portuguese: poro
• Russian: по́ра
• Spanish: poro

Translations

• French: pore
• Portuguese: poro
• Russian: по́ра

Verb

pore (pores, present participle poring; past and past participle pored)

1. to study meticulously; to go over again and again.
   • 1826, Mary Shelley, The Last Man, part 1, chapter 10

     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. to meditate or reflect in a steady way.

Translations

• Russian: тща́тельно изуча́ть

Translations

• Russian: размышля́ть

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