 4 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
pore
noun
1: any tiny hole admitting passage of a liquid (fluid or gas)
2: any small opening in the skin or outer surface of an animal
3: a minute epidermal pore in a leaf or stem through which
gases and water vapor can pass [syn: {stoma}, {stomate}]
verb: direct one's attention on something; "Please focus on your
studies and not on your hobbies" [syn: {concentrate}, {focus},
{center}, {centre}, {rivet}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Pore \Pore\, noun [F., fr. L. porus, Gr. ? a passage, a pore. See
{Fare}, v.]
1. One of the minute orifices in an animal or vegetable
membrane, for transpiration, absorption, etc.
2. A minute opening or passageway; an interstice between the
constituent particles or molecules of a body; as, the
pores of stones.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Pore \Pore\, verb (used without an object) [imp. & p. p. {Pored}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Poring}.] [OE. poren, of uncertain origin; cf. D. porren to
poke, thrust, Gael. purr.]
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.''Painfully to pore upon a book.'' --Shak.
The eye grows weary with poring perpetually on the same
thing. --Dryden.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
94 Moby Thesaurus words for "pore":
Eustachian tube, Fallopian tube, aperture, avenue, blowhole,
broaching, canal, cavity, channel, chasm, check, chute, clearing,
cleft, con, crack, debouch, disclosure, door, duct, egress,
emunctory, escape, estuary, examine, exhaust, exit, fenestra,
fistula, floodgate, flume, fontanel, foramen, gap, gape, gat,
go over, gulf, hiatus, hole, hollow, inlet, interval, intestines,
lacuna, laying open, leak, loophole, meatus, opening, opening up,
orifice, ostium, out, outcome, outfall, outgate, outgo, outlet,
oviduct, passageway, perforation, peruse, pore over, port, read,
sally port, salpinx, scrutinize, slot, sluice, space, spiracle,
split, spout, stoma, study, tap, thoracic duct, throwing open,
uncorking, unstopping, ureter, urethra, vagina, vas, vent, ventage,
venthole, vessel, vomitory, way out, weir, yawn
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