pore

• (General American) enPR: pôr, IPA^(key): /pɔɹ/
• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: pô, IPA^(key): /pɔː/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: pōr, IPA^(key): /po(ː)ɹ/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /poə/

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• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
• Homophones: pour, poor (in accents with the pour–poor merger); paw (non-rhotic accents with the horse–hoarse merger)

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”).

pore (plural pores)

1. A tiny opening in the skin.

   Synonym: sweat hole

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

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

   the pores of a rock.

• porous

From Middle English poren, pouren, puren (“to gaze intently, look closely”), from Old English *purian, suggested by Old English spyrian (“to investigate, examine”). Akin to 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.

pore (third-person singular simple present pores, present participle poring, simple past and past participle pored)

1. to study meticulously; to go over again and again.
   • 1826, [Mary Shelley], chapter 10, in The Last Man. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC:

     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.

• pore over

• Pero, oper, reop, repo, rope

pore

1. Hard mutation of bore.

From Latin porus, from Ancient Greek πόρος (póros).

• IPA^(key): /poːrə/, [ˈpʰoːɐ]

pore c (singular definite poren, plural indefinite porer)

1. pore (a tiny opening in the skin)

From por +‎ -e.

• IPA^(key): /ˈporeˣ/, [ˈpo̞re̞(ʔ)]
• Rhymes: -ore
• Syllabification^(key): po‧re

pore

1. bubble (gas bubble in water)

   Synonym: kupla

2. area of molten water near the edge of ice in a melting lake

• poreilla
• poreallas
• poreamme

• Repo, repo, rope

From Old French pore, from Latin porus, from Ancient Greek πόρος (póros, “passage”).

pore m (plural pores)

1. pore (small opening in skin)
2. by extension, small openings

• “pore”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From Ancient Greek πόρος (póros, “passage”).

pore f or m (definite singular pora or poren, indefinite plural porer, definite plural porene)

1. a pore (e.g. in the skin)

• porøs

• “pore” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Ancient Greek πόρος (póros, “passage”).

pore f (definite singular pora, indefinite plural porer, definite plural porene)

1. a pore (e.g. in the skin)

• porøs

• “pore” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Borrowed from Latin porus, from Ancient Greek πόρος (póros, “passage”).

pore m (oblique plural pores, nominative singular pores, nominative plural pore)

1. pore (small opening in skin)

pore f

1. feminine plural of poro