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What (who) is Pore - definition
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Pores; Pore control; Pore (disambiguation)
pore
(pores, poring, pored)
1.
Your pores are the tiny holes in your skin.
The size of your pores is determined by the amount of oil they produce.
N-COUNT: usu pl
2.
The pores of a plant are the tiny holes on its surface.
A plant's lungs are the microscopic pores in its leaves.
N-COUNT: usu pl
3.
If you pore over or through information, you look at it and study it very carefully.
We spent hours poring over travel brochures...
VERB: V over/through n
4.
You can say that someone has a certain quality or emotion coming from every pore to emphasize the strength of that quality or emotion.
She oozes sexuality from every pore...
PHRASE [emphasis]
pore
I. n.
Orifice, spiracle, small opening.
II. v. n.
Brood, dwell, look steadily, fix the attention, give one's mind, read steadily, examine diligently.
Pore
·v One of the minute orifices in an animal or vegetable membrane, for transpiration, absorption, ·etc.
II. Pore ·v A minute opening or passageway; an interstice between the constituent particles or molecules of a body; as, the pores of stones.
III. Pore ·vi To look or gaze steadily in reading or studying; to fix the attention; to be absorbed;
- often with on or upon, and now usually with over.
Examples of use of Pore
1. It just emanated from every pore of his body." Mr.
2. The volunteers pore over their rolls to update the picture.
3. Dozens of scientists pore over computers to test uranium enrichment.
4. "In office that long you‘re going to have a lot of decisions people can pore through.
5. He was a serious young man who remained late to pore through endless cables.